Asda is CHEAPEST UK supermarket: B Basket of 43 everyday groceries costs £130.36 from the retailer – while Morrisons and Tesco are more expensive than Waitrose Alertr team tracked items from the government-based Consumer Price Index ‘shopping basket’ over a five-week period during the month on September Tesco was the most expensive last month, but … Read more
Tesco has defended its plans to pay a £315 million dividend to shareholders despite the company enjoying a business rates break worth £249m since the outbreak began. Online food sales doubled and pre-tax profits surged during the crisis, with the UK’s largest supermarket posting a 28.7 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £551 million … Read more
Tesco is fined £175,000 for displaying out-of-date yoghurts and 30 3-day-old baguettes at a store in Bracknell Trading Standards officers found food at Bracknell North Superstore, Berkshire Yoghurts were more than two weeks past sell-by and baguettes were three days Documents showed many food safety checks had been carried out incorrectly By Nicole Conner For Mailonline … Read more
Tesco becomes latest supermarket to install TRAFFIC LIGHTS system on its store doors so shoppers know its safe to enter – after Aldi and Home Bargains did the same thing A new traffic light system at Tesco will tell customers whether it is safe to enter Supermarkets have had to control number of customers since … Read more
Bizarre moment Covid-wary woman chases her reluctant dog to spray him with DISINFECTANT… then jets herself with cleaning fluid at Tesco Express Footage shows shopper covering her dog in antiseptic outside the Stroud store Bizarre incident was caught on Connah Roberts, 24, who was on his lunch break Mr Roberts said: ‘I’ve no idea why … Read more
One in four items bought by hoarders goes to waste as shoppers are warned stockpiling is a ‘false economy’ a study has revealed. The study, carried out by Topcashback, found that Britons spent nearly £10 billion a year on stockpiling items that are lost, forgotten or thrown away, causing unnecessary food waste and greenhouse gas … Read more
Shops have brought in extra stocks of flour to see fans of The Great British Bake Off through potential outbreaks of lockdown panic buying. The return of the popular TV programme is expected to inspire a new wave of enthusiasm for home baking. But fears of further lockdowns have raised the prospect of a shortage … Read more
The executive director of Waitrose has slammed panic buyers saying their actions ‘inevitably mean someone else will go without’. Panic buying across the UK has resumed amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus and another lockdown with shoppers reporting queuing for 20 minutes to enter shops before similar further delays at checkouts. And online … Read more
There are fears that a second wave of panic buying has already begun as shoppers have shared pictures of supermarket shelves stripped bare this weekend. Concerned shoppers have taken to Twitter to share photographs of their local supermarkets, showing shelves completely emptied of essential items. One Twitter user shared photographs of an ASDA in London … Read more
A newborn died in his parents’ arms after a hospital turned the mother away three times and ‘disinterested’ NHS staff told her to ‘walk to Tesco‘ while she was in labour. Adele Thomas, 25, was refused from Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Birth Centre in Caerphilly in July 2018 as it was claimed she wasn’t in sufficient … Read more