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Our shopper insight manager Vanessa Henry and our discount retail expert Emily O’Neill look for the answers. Vanessa: "Morning Emily. I’ve just been looking at our latest monthly  ShopperVista data, we’ve seen some really interesting stats around food  discounters . Nearly half (46%) of all British grocery shoppers say they went to either Aldi or Lidl for their food and grocery shoppi...

Contactless payment has spread to the discount channel, with the UK's largest discounters, Aldi and Lidl, both now using the technology. This allows shoppers to pay for goods up to the value of £20 without entering a pin. Rollout completed at Lidl The new technology has now been installed across Lidl's UK estate, following a successful pilot in February this year. A Lidl spokeswoman said ...

Lidl has announced that Alexander Deopito is taking over as CEO of its Austrian business. Responsible for driving change Alexander Deopito is taking over the reigns of the Austrian business from Brendan Proctor, who will return to the Irish business as chairman of the board. Deopito has held a number of roles at Lidl , and is credited with refocusing the Austrian business on high qualit...

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of budget airline Easyjet, plans to take on discount retailers with the launch of his own budget food store - Easyfoodstore.com. Pilot site in Croydon Plans for a pilot site in Croydon have been announced for the Easyfoodstore concept, which will see it open on the ground floor of a nine-storey building that EasyGroup has bought and is also expected to hou...

Aldi and Lidl continue to be the success story of 2013 in Ireland, as challenging market conditions and an ever improving offer send shoppers through discounters' doors in droves, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks to 07 July.   12 weeks to 08 July 2012 (% share) 12 weeks to 07 July 2013 (% share) Sales growth (Y-o-Y %) Tesco ...

The latest market from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks to 7 July 2013 indicates that the UK grocery market grew at 3.7% in the period, accelerating from the Jubilee affected comparatives seen in the June figures when growth was 3.0%.  The Kantar measure of inflation over the 12 weeks stood at 3.9%, indicating that volume growth remains notably constrained. 12 weeks to ...

The UK's largest discount retailers, Aldi and Lidl, have both recently introduced new marketing initiatives as they look to capitalise on recent successes and cement their growing popularity with UK shoppers. Aldi's "Swap&Save" campaign Following from the success of its ongoing "Like Aldi" campaigns, which highlight the quality of Aldi products, the discounter has launched a new initi...

We review the top five grocery retailers in Europe – Carrefour, Tesco, Schwarz, Auchan and Aldi - and the tactics they are employing to drive growth and stay at the top of their game. Although Europe’s leading retailers operate across a range of channels and markets, their short-term strategies are seeing them focus increasingly on the region’s shoppers and in order to help differentiate thems...

A UK Lidl store in Norfolk is now home to the first Subway franchise to be launched within the discounter's store portfolio. First tie-up, but potential for more Subway is increasingly looking to expand into non-traditional locations such as convenience stores, supermarkets and universities. This is its first tie-up with Lidl and Trevor Haynes, Subway area development manager, believes ...

The Irish market continues to challenge traditional multiple retailers as shoppers continue to flock to discounters, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks to 09 June.   12 weeks to 10 June 2012 (% share) 12 weeks to 09 June 2013 (% share) Sales growth (Y-o-Y %) Tesco 28.6 27.7 -3.4 Dunnes 22.4 21.9 -2.7 Su...