Tag: Tesco

Supermarket’s shoppers gave biggest ever help to food banks and charities in 2022

Stuart Mitchell

Despite a year which has seen the UK in the grip of the cost-of-living crisis, Tesco shoppers have been their most generous ever in support of foodbanks and local charities, the supermarket has revealed. Tesco customers donated more than 2.4 million meals during the Tesco Food Collection at the beginning of December. That brings the total amount of food donated by Tesco shoppers to the Trussell Trust and FareShare in 2022 to the equivalent of 12.5 million meals. The donations to the Trussell Trust help food banks to provide emergency…

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Tesco Media & Insight Platform unveils new channels for brands and agencies

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and dunnhumby have unveiled the next phase of the industry-leading Tesco Media & Insight Platform, allowing CPG brands and agencies to understand their customers like never before. At an Upfront event in London Tesco launched new onsite and in-store media channels, announced new self-serve capability, and confirmed several partnerships expanding the offsite channels available through the platform. The increased suite of media options will help brands improve engagement with Tesco customers and offer more personalised experiences. Bringing together Tesco’s extensive understanding of its customers, through Tesco Clubcard and instore…

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Tesco suppliers to use online swap-shop to cut costs and reduce waste

Stuart Mitchell

More than 3,500 Tesco suppliers can now cut production costs and reduce waste by selling or donating surplus stock or products to other suppliers who can make use of them. Tesco Exchange is a new online marketplace that matches suppliers who have too much of a product, for example, crops, by-products, ingredients or packaging, with other Tesco suppliers that need it. It is expected that savings in production costs will ultimately benefit customers too. In the same way that consumer marketplaces work, suppliers can advertise surplus stock for sale on…

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Tesco cuts plastic from bakery favourites and returns to selling bread loose

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco is rewinding the clock back to the days of traditional bakeries by removing plastic from a number of its most popular items and selling loose loaves of bread.     The moves will result in the annual removal of 33 million pieces of plastic from loaves of bread and doughnuts, and reduce the plastic used to pack breakfast pastries by more than 120 tonnes each year.    Nearly 25 of the supermarket’s in-store bakery bread lines are now being sold loose, although customers can request a paper bag should they want one.  Doughnuts…

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Tesco answers food banks’ aid plea with £1m funding boost

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced a new £1m support package for food banks and food charities after the Trussell Trust warned they are facing their most difficult winter ever. With food banks and other frontline charities hit by a double whammy of unprecedented demand and soaring operating costs, Tesco has stepped in with a £1m donation split between the Trussell Trust and FareShare to help them meet the exceptional challenges they are facing. The extra money comes in addition to the ongoing support the supermarket provides to both charities, having worked in…

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