The latest release from Kantar, tracking the performance of GB grocery retail over the 12 weeks to 18 April 2021, shows that sector growth slowed to 5.7%, as sales met the tougher comparatives of the early pandemic in 2020 and non-essential retail and the out-of-home sectors began to open from 12 April, beginning the resumption of a more normal competitive retail landscape.  However, Kantar indic...

The discount channel is slowly catching up with grocery ecommerce as it seeks to remain relevant with shoppers. The many recent partnerships with aggregators (last milers) across Europe prove the online transformation of the channel is inevitable and it is now accelerating, especially around quick commerce. We look at the different developments in the region and what this could mean more widely f...

As Carrefour, Casino and Aldi Nord all announce new agreements or expansions of existing ones with different delivery partners in the region, we round up the developments from the retailers. Carrefour launches express delivery in France with Deliveroo Carrefour and Deliveroo have expanded their on-demand grocery delivery partnership to France. According to Carrefour, the less than 30-minute...