Tesco’s partnership with Ikea is being extended to a further 70 stores following a successful pilot scheme that has been running in 12 stores for the last 12 months. The partnership provides shoppers the opportunity to collect online Ikea orders from their local Tesco car park. The click-and-collect locations will be available across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with the ro...

Our global analysts share their opinion on grocery retail news from across the globe. Grocery retailers are partnering with travel agencies – Michaela Jay, Insight Manager We are used to seeing many partnerships come together on a regular basis (a recent example being Amazon partnering with Meta and Snap), but partnerships between grocery retailers and travel agencies is less common, but ve...

Tesco’s Fulham Reach GetGo Express store is trialling new technology that removes the need for shoppers to scan their items at self-service checkouts. Tesco says shoppers will be able to walk up to the scan-free checkout and they will be presented with a list of the items they have picked up. Shoppers will be able to check the list is correct and pay in the usual way, no scanning is involved a...