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Shopping For The Holidays? Keep Your Distance From Retail Workers

Maintaining social distancing inside retail stores during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a daily source of contention between retail workers and customer...

'Generation P' To Drive Growth In The International Grocery Sector, Study Finds

'Generation P' will drive the international grocery sector up by an incremental $116 billion (€98.2 billion) over the next couple of years, creating a...

The Pandemic Shopping List: Dolls, Detergent And Campers

Consumers have been snapping up everything from disinfectant wipes and robot vacuum cleaners to Barbie dolls and motorhomes over the last few mon...

CPG Demand Remains High In UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands: IRI

The latest edition of the IRI Demand Index and IRI Inflation Tracker, for week commencing 20 July, has found that demand in the consumer packaged goods (CP...

UK Consumers Feel Retailers Are Doing Enough To Protect Public: Survey

A majority of shoppers (53%) in the UK believe that retailers are doing enough to protect the public from coronavirus, according to a recent survey by the...

Significant Growth Seen Across All UK Grocery Retailers, Kantar Data Shows

Growth rates have remained high across the entire UK grocery spectrum, according to the latest Kantar data, however some of these gains have been offset by...

Tesco Retains Limit Of Three Items Per Shopper On Every SKU

Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis has said that a store-wide limit on three items per shopper, for every SKU available in its outlets, is remaining in place...

A 'Minority' Of UK Shoppers Engaging In Stockpiling When Shopping, Kantar Says

While UK shoppers are spending more in store in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, only a minority are purchasing mass quantities of selected products, a...