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‘Marked increase’ in demand for cheaper, own-brand items in Irish supermarkets

Supermarket groups in Ireland are recording increased demand for their own-brand ranges as consumers across the country continue to feel the pinch from rampant inflationary pressures.

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Darren Kennedy: How to make your outdoor space simply superb this summer without breaking the bank

Everything has finally started to heat up for summer, but unfortunately prices have been hotting up for some time too. So for many, it might be another year of staycationing. But you can make the most of things by investing in some items to make your outdoor area more habitable.

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Samantha McCaughren Opinion Supermarkets are gatekeepers of food price inflation that lies ahead

Supermarket chains benefited from bumper sales during the lockdowns of the past two years, as other retailers were stuck at home and left scrambling to rapidly pivot to online.

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Rising prices may eat into consumer demand for groceries as wages fail to keep up

Irish grocery market sales grew by just under €2bn during the pandemic, a trend that may reverse as shoppers change their habits and get to grips with rising prices.

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Customers could pay €100 more a year on a modest basket of shopping as inflation bites

Consumers now face paying at least €100 extra over the course of a year on a modest basket of shopping .

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Lidl wins court challenge over Aldi grocery price survey

Supermarket chain Lidl has won a High Court action over what it claims was a flawed 2018 Aldi-commissioned price survey that put Lidl in second place.

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Families warned to brace themselves for further hikes in the price of food

Experts are warning families to brace for further price increases, after a Sunday Independent survey found the cost of some of the most popular supermarket items rose by almost 20pc in the past three years.

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Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin: The world according to me and Bob Geldof

How does it feel to lose a quarter-of-a-billion euro from the company you started? It’s not a question you can ask too many people but Tim Martin, worth £448m (€537m) net, doesn’t dodge it.

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For those we lost to Famine, and those we lost to Covid

Sir — We understandably, though perhaps unjustifiably, complain about the Covid restrictions placed on our freedom to mix, to go down the pub, to meet our friends, to fly off to take the winter sun, to shop ’til we drop in Mac y’s, New York, in the run-up to Christmas.

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British grocer Morrisons coy on plans for Irish entities

Morrisons, the UK supermarket chain being bought by a US private equity firm in a £7bn (€8.2bn) deal, has established two new subsidiaries in Ireland.

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Brendan O'Connor Opinion Remembering those blissfully innocent days before Omicron

Those were innocent times. The early part of last week. We tore ourselves apart over antigen tests.

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Aldi, Lidl and IFA at war over 'phantom farm' product labels

Supermarket giants Aldi and Lidl have strongly disputed claims made by the Irish Farmers' Association about their product branding policies.

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Branching out: Aldi Ireland to plant a million native trees

Aldi Ireland has pledged to support the planting of one million native Irish woodland trees around Ireland over the next four years as part of its long-term commitment towards the environment.

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Cost a Lidl less: Lidl narrowly beats Aldi to be named cheapest supermarket 2020

Lidl has narrowly beaten Aldi to be named the cheapest supermarket of 2020, according to Which? analysis.

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'It's like shopping in Aldi as opposed to Brown Thomas'

Connacht are proud of their 'Grassroots to Green Shirts' programme, and rightly so.

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Aldi staff to get Christmas bonus following Tesco announcement

ALDI has announced a Christmas bonus for 4,000 staff after Tesco revealed its workers will get one yesterday.

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Tara Hill tackles €50,000 cheque as Aldi winners

Pupils and staff at St Kevin's NS Tara Hill were jumping for joy at the news that they won €50,000 as a result of the Aldi Play Rugby competition.

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Aldi confirms ‘middle aisles’ will be closed as it pauses non-essential special buy promotions

Aldi has confirmed that all non-essential products in its infamous ‘middle aisles’ have been removed in all 144 Irish stores due to government guidelines.

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Aldi offering finder's fee in a bid to source new store sites

Aldi is offering to pay a finders’ fees to people who identify new supermarket sites to the grocery chain.

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Aldi offering finder's fee in a bid to source new sites

Discount retailer Aldi is offering to pay a finder's fee to people who refer appropriate supermarket sites to it.

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Aldi rules out selling chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef in UK

Supermarket chain Aldi has vowed to never sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef amid fears they could be imported under a potential UK-US trade agreement.