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Tesco commits to progress plans to support affordable, healthy diets

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced that it will continue with plans to help customers eat more healthily and deliver on its commitment to make Tesco the easiest place for customers to shop for affordable, healthy, sustainable food. Following the Government announcement that restrictions on multibuy deals on foods high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) are to be delayed for a year, Tesco confirms that it will continue with plans to remove volume-led promotions on HFSS products from October 2022. This is in response to customer feedback that it can be hard…

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Tesco launches Better Baskets campaign to help customers fill their baskets with better choices

Stuart Mitchell

‘Better Basket’ zones introduced into stores to signpost products at affordable prices  Tesco has created Better Baskets, a campaign that aims to tackle the barriers that customers come up against when looking to fill their basket with better choices every time they shop.  Research among Tesco shoppers found that 86%i of them want to eat more healthily, with 77%ii wanting the supermarket’s help to achieve it.  The campaign, which launched this week, will include in-store Better Basket zones, clearly signposted with the Better Baskets logo, that will feature products including: …

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Tesco opens up supply chain to sustainability start-ups

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and WWF have launched a new accelerator programme which pairs pioneering start-ups with Tesco suppliers to fast-track sustainability innovation in the supply chain which can cut the environmental impact of food and support UK food security. Innovation Connections will address a key barrier preventing promising sustainability innovations from being adopted at scale in food supply chains, by identifying suppliers who can help to scale up new ideas and technologies.  Applicants have been paired with long-term Tesco suppliers to pitch scale-up projects that apply their ideas in the real world…

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Tesco fridging the gap to net zero

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has introduced HGV trailers with refrigeration units powered by solar panels rather than using traditional diesel engine technology. The first 13.6 metre refrigerated trailer based at Tesco’s Peterborough Distribution Centre has already hit the road and is delivering stock to stores across the East of England, with three more destined for Peterborough later this year. The joint initiative with Marshall Fleet Solutions will see each trailer save circa 2,000 litres of diesel per year and over 5 tonnes of carbon per year. Each trailer roof is fitted with 12…

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Tesco engages suppliers to accelerate plans to tackle plastic waste

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco is bringing together suppliers at a sustainability event to discuss new ways to eliminate even more plastic waste where it matters most. As a part of Tesco’s 4Rs packaging strategy – Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – suppliers will be asked to accelerate progress and to go further and faster in removing plastic where alternatives are possible. The retailer will apply a particular focus to areas that can make the greatest difference at scale, as well as tackling packaging which is most at risk of ending up in the natural…

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