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Tesco trials new crime reporting platform to deter retail crime and keep colleagues, customers and local communities safe

Stuart Mitchell

From Monday 26 January, Tesco has beemnn trialling a new crime reporting platform across 40 of its stores. The 10-week trial will be conducted across Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, with the aim of driving down retail crime, protecting colleagues and increasing collaboration with the police and the wider retail industry. While even one incident is one too many, retail crime has continued to escalate sharply across the industry, with the latest BRC Crime Survey reporting that incidents of violence and abuse against retail workers now surpass 2,000 a day. The Auror…

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Tesco’s Murray Bisschop to Chair IPA CPD Gold Judges

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA has named Murray Bisschop, UK Marketing Director at Tesco as the Chair of Judges for 2025 IPA CPD Gold Accreditation. Now in its eighteenth year, IPA CPD Gold Accreditation rewards agencies for their exceptional professional development programmes and outstanding investment in the development and wellbeing of their employees. Bisschop and the judging panel will examine CPD Gold submissions and honour those that demonstrate an embedded, effective and innovative culture of learning throughout 2025, bettering the professionalism, development and reputation of the industry and ultimately adding value to both…

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Tesco announces two new nature partnerships as it ramps up plans to boost biodiversity across land connected to food production

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has today reaffirmed its aim to protect and restore nature across key sourcing regions in its supply chain, as it revealed the progress it’s made during the first year of its Nature Programme initiative. The retailer launched its Nature Programme in 2023, with five projects now established in partnership with Forestry England, delivered in the Blackdown Hills; RSPB; the Rivers Trust, alongside beef and lamb supplier, ABP; Herefordshire Rural Hub; and ANSE (Asociación de Naturalistas del Sureste) and key fruit supplier AMFRESH in Spain.   As part of the programme, land linked to the production of 18 high risk commodities is already benefiting from a range of initiatives, including creating habitats for key species, increasing pollinators, improving soil health and…

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Supermarkets playing with fire on future of food, says WWF

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s broken food system is causing environmental collapse and creating volatility in supply and price, according to a report by WWF released recently.     Drawing on data from 10 retailers (Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl GB, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose), 2025’s What’s in Store for the Planet report assesses the progress on environmental action of 90% of the UK grocery market and concludes that action on reducing environmental risks is stagnating.   It warns that without decisive action environmental impacts will escalate, threatening food security and…

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Brits embrace the ‘Eat The Rainbow’ healthy food mantra as demand for colourful veg soars

Stuart Mitchell

Nutritionists are forever urging us to ‘eat the rainbow’ in order to be more healthy – and now, at last, it looks as if the message for adding colourful vegetables to the plate is starting to resonate. In the past year – and particularly the last few months – Tesco has seen rocketing demand for different coloured vegetables such as rainbow chard, rainbow carrots, purple broccoli, dark purple Cavolo Nero and pink onions. These include the following: Rainbow carrots – demand up 100 per cent this autumn versus last Pink…

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