LONDON—Amazon’s food retail business in Britain faces increased regulation after the competition watchdog said rules setting out how grocers should treat their suppliers will now apply to the U.S. giant. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Wednesday that due to Amazon’s increasing activity in the UK grocery sector it must now comply with…

Aldi has opened its first checkout-free store, where shoppers will be able to pick up products and leave without queuing to pay. The discount supermarket’s new site in Greenwich, south-east London, will also allow customers to buy alcohol, using facial age estimation technology to check whether they appear to be over the age of 25….

While Australia’s major supermarket chains may have experienced stock shortages due to COVID-19 delays, Sydney and Melbourne produce markets are reporting plentiful supply with distribution largely unaffected. The spread of the virus and isolation of many workers has seen shelves empty at big supermarkets along the east coast in recent weeks. National cabinet this week…

Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has welcomed the Queensland government’s decision to exempt asymptomatic close contacts from isolating when they’re classified as a close contact of a COVID-19 case, allowing workers in the critical food and grocery supply chain to return to work. “This is a proportionate response to challenges faced across the food and grocery…

British supermarket Morrisons will remove “use-by” dates from milk packaging at the end of January in an attempt to stop millions of pints of its own-brand product from being thrown away unnecessarily by customers each year, a spokesperson confirmed to The Guardian. The Bradford-headquartered supermarket said it will instead place “best before” dates on 90 percent of its…

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES—Emirati billionaire Majid Al Futtaim, who rose from working as a bank clerk to creating an eponymous business empire most known for its massive Dubai mall with an indoor ski slope, died on Friday. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced Al Futtaim’s death in a post on Twitter, praising…

DENVER—A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can be made well enough to face prosecution. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 22, is accused…

LONDON—British supermarket group Asda will extend a rapid online service for delivery within one hour to 96 stores after a trial exceeded expectations, it said on Friday. Asda, which trails market leader Tesco and Sainsbury’s in annual sales, had launched the “Express Delivery” service with a four-store trial in June. Rapid delivery is the latest…

LONDON–Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has won the auction for Morrisons with a 7 billion pound ($9.5 billion) bid, paving the way for the U.S. private equity firm to take control of Britain’s fourth-biggest supermarket group. The board of Morrisons recommended CD&R’s 287 pence per share bid on Saturday, hours after its bid beat a…

A leading supermarket boss has warned that current UK food shortages are at a “worse level” than he has ever seen. The food supply chain has been disrupted by a lack of lorry drivers, and by a shortage of labour in general. Steve Murrells, chief executive of the Co-operative Group, told the Times that they had…