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Logistics boss accused of receiving huge bonus while receiving millions of UK furlough cash

The Business Desk 09 May 2021
XPO employs more than 25,000 workers in the UK and carries out transport and logistics work for many of the leading supermarkets including Morrisons, Co-op, Waitrose and Iceland ... “At one stage, XPO encouraged workers to share freezer suits at its Morrisons supermarket site in Scotland – until GMB stepped in ... XPO has contacted for comment.
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Greggs recalls £2 vegetable bakes sold in Iceland over fears they could contain slivers of glass

The Daily Mail 06 May 2021
Customers are being warned to not eat certain frozen vegetable bakes, made by Greggs and sold exclusively for £2 in Iceland's supermarkets across Britain ... £2 Greggs vegetable bakes (above) sold exclusively in Iceland are on government's recall list after fears that there may be glass shards in some products.
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New seafood processing plant opens at Mullaney’s in Scituate Harbor

The Patriot Ledger 02 May 2021
SCITUATE — It has been a long time coming, but Mullaney’s Harborside Fish Market has reopened after extensive renovations including the addition of a new seafood processing plant ... More ... More ... A lot of the fish sold in local supermarkets are caught off of Iceland, shipped to China for processing, then packaged and sent back to the U.S ... .
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Lockdown shopping snobs should check their privilege and join the real world

The Daily Telegraph 27 Apr 2021
I was in Iceland (the supermarket, unfortunately not the country) the other day when I bumped into someone I hadn’t seen for ages ... Does that help? ... But then things started to get weird ... Mystifying ... That came, of course, from Amazon ... But that’s a lot of us isn’t it? ... UK coronavirus lockdown, Supermarkets. Twitter Icon ... UK coronavirus lockdown, Supermarkets.
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Property giant NewRiver eyes float of 700-strong pub group Hawthorn

AOL 14 Apr 2021
Chief executive Allan Lockhart told the PA news agency that the group expects “strong market demand” for Hawthorn ...Despite everything, we’ve still seen strong demand from retailers for new sites and have had new openings from the likes of B&M, Iceland, other supermarkets too, so there is a lot of resilience in the retail market still.” ... .
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Iceland is first UK supermarket to launch plastic-free Pink Lady packaging

Fresh Plaza 13 Apr 2021
Iceland has become the first UK supermarket to launch plastic-free packaging for its Pink Lady apples. Today, the supermarket announced that ...
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Appeal for witnesses following Omagh supermarket car park assault

Belfast Telegraph 13 Apr 2021
Police in Omagh are appealing for a witness, following an assault in a supermarket car park on Tuesday. The incident is believed to happened in the Iceland car ...
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Litter is making the UK look like an impoverished nation, says Iceland boss

The Daily Mail 12 Apr 2021
A rise in litter is making Britain look ‘like an impoverished Third World country’, according to the boss of Iceland supermarkets ... Sir Malcolm, who built the frozen food giant from a single shop in Oswestry, Shropshire, in 1970 to more than 1,000 stores, said he particularly noticed the mess in Cheshire, where the Iceland HQ is based ... .
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Co-op vows to repay £15.5m furlough cash it received during lockdown as its annual profits ...

The Daily Mail 08 Apr 2021
It comes after more than £2 billion in rates relief was handed back to the state by other essential retailers who continued to trade during lockdown measures ... The UK's five largest supermarkets have all repaid the rates relief, although rivals including M&S, Waitrose and Iceland have also held onto funds secured as part of the rates holiday ... .
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Co-op repays furlough support but holds onto £66m of business rates relief

Belfast Telegraph 08 Apr 2021
It comes after more than £2 billion in rates relief was handed back to the state by other essential retailers who continued to trade during lockdown measures ... The UK’s five largest supermarkets have all repaid the rates relief, although rivals including M&S, Waitrose and Iceland have also held onto funds secured as part of the rates holiday ... .
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Iceland boss calls for digital sales tax to help save high streets as he defends ...

The Daily Mail 06 Apr 2021
The managing director of frozen food chain Iceland has said a digital sales tax should be introduced to help revive British high streets ... He told the PA news agency that he supported the introduction of a digital sales tax despite Iceland having a 'really strong online business' ... Frozen food retailer Iceland returns to British hands as...
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Iceland boss calls for digital sales tax

The Times/The Sunday Times 06 Apr 2021
Walker, 40, the son of Sir Malcolm Walker, 75, the supermarket’s founder, said that Iceland’s support for a digital sales tax was despite the ...
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Iceland supermarket boss calls for tax on online giants to save high street

The Mirror 05 Apr 2021
EXCLUSIVE. Iceland’s managing director Richard Walker wants online sales taxed in an overhaul of “outdated and ­Victorian” business rates. Shops also have the added costs of running a premises ... .
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About 117 million fewer supermarket trips made compared with year ago

Belfast Telegraph 30 Mar 2021
Sales were down 3% in the four weeks to March 21 compared with a year earlier – the first comparison with the first national lockdown that saw supermarket shelves stripped bare at the start of the pandemic in the UK ... Kantar supermarket sales for March ... Kantar supermarket sales for March.
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Easter egg sales 'soar by almost 50%'

BBC News 30 Mar 2021
But that marked the first national lockdown when concerned shoppers stripped supermarket shelves bare at the start of the pandemic. "This time last year, Brits were adjusting to schools and offices closing and making extra trips to the supermarket to fill their cupboards for lockdown," pointed out Mr McKevitt ... Supermarket performance.
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