Tag: Tesco

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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Tesco set to go peat-free on UK-grown bedding plants and make major carbon-saving move

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco is aiming to become the first major UK supermarket to go peat-free on its British-grown bedding plants, in order to significantly lower their carbon footprint.   From Monday 4 April, Tesco has reduced peat by 95 per cent across its UK bedding plant range – with plans to go completely peat-free in its British bedding plants in 2023. The small amount of residual peat in this year’s range was used by the retailer’s seedling suppliers when germinating the plants. Tesco will work with these suppliers over the coming months, with the…

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