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Danish variety discounter, Normal, which specialises in health and beauty and household product categories will open 10 pop-up stores across Denmark this summer. The stores will be located at several of the country’s most popular summer destinations. They are expected to benefit from this year’s trend for ‘staycations’, driven by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Smaller store concept wi...

Dollar General and Dollar Tree have both announced particularly strong growth in Q1, as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led shoppers to increase purchases of groceries and household products. Factors contributing to the dollar stores performance Dollar General saw sales increase by 27.6% to $8.4bn, with same store sales up 21.7%. Dollar Tree's sales increased by 8.2% to $6.3bn for Q...

Aldi is expanding its Curbside Grocery Pickup service in the US to nearly 600 stores following successful trials at a select number. Offering a convenient service to shoppers The click and collect service will be available at nearly 600 stores by the end of July. The pandemic has probably accelerated this development, providing a convenient and safe solution. Jason Hart, Aldi US’s CEO, s...

Retailers across Ireland are introducing queue management systems to control the number of shoppers in store, to make social distancing easier for shoppers and staff. Tesco Source: Tesco Ireland Twitter Tesco's new queuing technology counts how many shoppers enter and leave the store, calculating when it is safe for the next person in the queue to en...

On 28 May, Lidl opened its 100 th store in the US, in Suwanee, Georgia. Due to coronavirus (COVID-19), Lidl organised a soft opening for the store to keep staff and shoppers safe as it looked to celebrate reaching the milestone. A soft opening for this milestone For the store opening, no grand celebration with the traditional ribbon cutting was organised. Instead the discounter carried out...

B&M has released an unscheduled trading update for the 13 weeks ending 28th March (Q4) and the first eight weeks of the 2020/21 financial year to 23rd May 2020. The retailer saw strong like-for-like sales growth across this period, according to Retail Gazette. Performance driven by grocery, gardening and DIY +6.6% B&M UK like-for-like sales in Q4 +22.7% B&M UK like-for-like sales in t...

We look at the discounter’s latest private labels developments in Europe, from premium pet food to the growth of regional labels. New range of premium and quality pet food products During summer 2020, Lidl Finland will expand its assortment of Orlando and Coshida pet food products. It will add a new line of premium products to align with shoppers’ growing expectations of choice and quality....

In this article we round up the latest initiatives seen in the discount and variety discount channel, to address the challenges created by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Aldi launches traffic light system to control customer flow Aldi is implementing a new automated traffic light system at entrances to stores, to control the flow of customers. The retailer will be rolling out the syst...

Lidl Switzerland partners with Empa, a Swiss research institute for applied materials sciences and technology, to develop a system that produces a fossil-free fuel from renewable electricity. Committed to deliver goods without use of fossils Lidl Switzerland has pledged to deliver goods to all its stores without the use of fossil fuels by 2030. As part of “Goodbye Diesel” project, the retai...

Action is testing a new click and collect service in France. This is the first market where the Dutch discounter has launched an ecommerce solution. Limited click and collet service The click and collect service began being tested at the Metz Centre and Essey les Nancy stores (East of France) on the 22 May. The entire assortment from the online website is available to order. The payment is ...