Ian Quinn

United Kingdom

Chief Reporter at The Grocer

Music lover, dog dad and professional scribe.

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Cost price increase requests being rejected by supermarkets

2 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Suppliers are expected to make a flood of cost price increase requests later this year after being widely snubbed by retailers in attempts to get price increases through so far in 2025, an exclusive survey for The Grocer has revealed. The poll of more than 50 food and drink suppliers, across the full range of supermarket products, shows that more than 90% of suppliers have looked to pass on increased costs due to inflation so far this year.
Morrisons poaches Asda online trading director

2 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Morrisons has poached Asda‘s online trading director Emma Pacey to become its new trading director for general merchandise. Pacey has been with Asda for nearly 20 years and previously held the role of senior director of retail operations. She also worked at the helm of Asda’s e-commerce and customer proposition operations. The move coincides with Matt McLellan also joining Morrisons from Asda in the newly created role of group data and media director.
Retail bosses call for steel industry-style intervention to tackle jobs crisis

2 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Retail has lost 10 times the number of jobs as the steel industry but seen the government “do nothing” to intervene, a new report by the BRC has claimed. The report claims retailers have shed more than 350,000 jobs since 2015, a fall nearly 10 times that of the total number of workers employed in the steel industry.
CPI request flood forecast as poll shows supermarkets refusing cost hikes

2 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Suppliers are expected to make a flood of cost price increase requests later this year after being widely snubbed by retailers in attempts to get price increases through so far in 2025, an exclusive survey for The Grocer has revealed. The poll of more than 50 food and drink suppliers, across the full range of supermarket products, shows that more than 90% of suppliers have looked to pass on increased costs due to inflation so far this year.
FDF to face opposition bid in efforts to run new EPR packaging tax system

3 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

The industry bid widely seen as favourite to take on the running of the government’s controversial packaging tax is set to face an as-yet unknown number of rival bids, The Grocer has been told. A bid drawn up by the FDF has won the backing of powerful bodies including the BRC and Incpen. There had been speculation that it would be the only one, similar to the recent appointment of the drinks industry/retailer-run DMO to run the deposit return scheme.
Tesco starts offering Clubcard points for charging electric cars

4 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Tesco is to start offering loyalty points for shoppers when they top up their electric cars while visiting its stores. The supermarket announced the new service as an extension of its tie-up with tech provider Pod. From today, Clubcard members can collect a Clubcard point for every pound spent on charging at Pod’s Vauxhall-branded chargers at Tesco stores. Electric vehicle drivers can now also get 2,500 Clubcard points by signing up to Pod’s all-inclusive home charging subscription Pod Drive.
Food sector council hailed as a game-changer ‘on pause’, says government

5 days ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Eight years after it was hailed as “a historic game-changer” in the government’s relationship with the food industry, ministers have confirmed the Food and Drink Sector Council has been shelved. Whilst it was announced in November 2017, the council met for the first time in January 2018. It was billed as a new partnership with government to boost productivity and make the industry more resilient, sustainable and competitive.
Tesco demands mandatory health reporting to fight obesity crisis

1 week ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Tesco has urged the government to tackle the growing obesity crisis by forcing all supermarkets and large food businesses to report on the health merits of their food and drink sales, The Grocer can exclusively reveal. Tesco group CEO Ken Murphy has written an open letter to heath secretary Wes Streeting, backed by the retailer’s powerful health charity partners Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK.
Will Asda’s ‘green shoots’ be enough to save the struggling grocer?

1 week ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

On first impressions, Asda boss Allan Leighton doesn’t seem to share much in common with former Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont. But today he was doing the rounds with the message that the struggling supermarket giant was starting to see “the green shoots of recovery”. Also like Lamont, Leighton has set an all-encompassing target of controlling inflation, claiming that despite its year-on-year decline in sales, Asda is once more starting to carve out a position as the “gatekeeper” for lower prices.
Allan Leighton vows Asda won’t accept cost price increases

1 week ago | thegrocer.co.uk | Ian Quinn

Asda boss Allan Leighton says the supermarket will refuse to put through cost price increases even if there is a flood of requests from suppliers, promising it will act as the “gatekeeper” for low prices. Leighton today announced what he claimed were “green shoots of recovery” at the struggling supermarket giant, despite it reporting like-for-like sales down 3.1% in the first quarter, with revenues falling 5.9%.