The Supermarket Sleuth

NZ Special. Foodstuffs steals a march on its big competitor

Late news from New Zealand. The supermarket duopoly move fast to set up as wholesalers for small competitors

ALDI’s the best supermarket in Australia - again!

One again ALDI wins awards in Australia and Tesco wins awards in the UK. This time we visit Australia and the UK.

A wider roll-out for Amazon hi-tech stores and a new online discounter muscles in

Amazon plans on opening more and more hi-tech stores, the Morrisons takeover finally wins approval and prices just keep on going up.

A brief look at what’s been happening in Aotearoa

Watermelons $100 each? Where are all the oranges? Is it really worth patying $60 for a Costco membership? So the Commerce commission failed to meet the Government's expectations and no it's going ahead on its own. But tiwll that be a good thing or will it make the situation worse?

Sleuth reacts to the latestNZ Government announcement on how to solverising supermarket prices

Just the one topic this week. Will what David Clark has told us be the anqwer to all our problems. WIll the opening of Costco and the possible arrival of ALDI make a big difference. and, more importantly, when? 

Rising food prices impact on UK supermarkets

Reports from Tesco, Waitrose, the Co-op and others

Asda and Morrisons help UK customers to grapple with inflation

Thuis week a general look at what's happening on the UK supermarket scene

Checking on the Australian supermarket scene

Coles makes another move to reduce plastic waste

The changing behaviour of UK supermarket shoppers

We catch up again with what's happening in Britain, focussing on Morrisons and Tesco and some interesting new products.

Iceland comes to the aid of struggling shoppers

News from Iceland and a rap on the knuckles for Lidl advertising