Christmas

Christmas Nielsen Online Grocery supermarket

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas could see retailers’ ecommerce systems collapse entirely as tech bosses warn there “simply aren’t enough quality engineers to keep up with the demand”. The…

Online grocery sales have grown 121 per cent since last year hitting the highest levels on record in January.

Online grocery sales doubled in December in biggest Christmas for supermarkets ever

Ecommerce

January 6, 2021

Christmas Deliveroo essentials Morrisons supermarket

Online grocery sales doubled in December helping drive the most lucrative Christmas ever for the UK’s supermarkets. During the four weeks to December 26, online grocery sales accounted for 12.5…

Morrisons to deliver commonly forgotten Christmas items up to Christmas Eve

Delivery Ecommerce

December 23, 2020

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Morrisons will deliver easily-forgotten Christmas essentials such as sticky tape, batteries, gravy and even a turkey until Christmas Eve, for customers who may have missed them off their list this…

Sales in ‘me-gifting’ surge with 4.1m Brits expected to treat themselves this Christmas

Sales in ‘me-gifting’ set to surge with 4.1m Brits expected to treat themselves this Christmas

Companies Ecommerce

December 22, 2020

Christmas Delivery Sainsbury's union Unite

After a year like no-other, many Brits will be adding their own names to their Christmas shopping gift list, as research from notonthehighstreet finds 4.1 million people will be ‘me-gifting’…

Sainsbury’s outsourced delivery drivers have cancelled plans to hold strike action which threatened to cause chaos for the grocer over Christmas.

Sainsbury’s avoids delivery strikes threatening Christmas chaos at 100 stores

Delivery

December 15, 2020

Christmas Deliveroo Food Box Morrisons telephone

Sainsbury’s outsourced delivery drivers have cancelled plans to hold strike action which threatened to cause chaos for the grocer over Christmas. A group of delivery drivers which are hired by…

Morrisons launches Christmas Dinner boxes available to order via telephone for vulnerable shoppers

Companies Delivery

December 9, 2020

Companies Delivery Ecommerce

Morrisons has launched a new Christmas Dinner box enabling vulnerable shoppers to order Christmas favourites using its popular phone service. Morrisons’ £18.36 Christmas Dinner box, containing staples including peeled potatoes,…

Deliveroo’s share price has continued to divebomb since its public debut as a damning new report suggests it could drop a further 40 per cent.

Deliveroo teams up with Co-op and the Felix Project to deliver 20,000 meals to families in need

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December 8, 2020

Body Cameras Christmas Superdrug violence

Deliveroo has announced a new collaboration with the Felix Project to deliver surplus food including fresh food and vegetables to frontline charities and food banks. The food delivery company has…

Shop workers across the UK continued to face “appalling violence, threats and abuse” as a new study reveals over 1.2 million incidents occurred last year.

Superdrug to issue body cameras as it prepares for “even bigger spike” in violence this Christmas

Security

December 1, 2020

Superdrug is planning to issue its staff with body cameras as it prepares for a further surge in violence towards its staff during the Christmas shopping period. The health and…

40% of UK will choose online for Christmas food shop this year

Delivery Ecommerce

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November 2, 2020