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• Shelf life of 21 days or more could save red meat waste, say UK industry bodies

  09-08-2020 18:02
  
  Food Standards Agency guidance currently limits use-by dates to 10 daysUse-by dates on red meat in the UK should be extended, say industry experts who are lobbying the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to endorse scrapping the current 10-day cap and extending it to 21 days or more.According to 2008 guidance from the FSA, clarified in 2017, the shelf life of either vacuum- or gas-packaged fresh meat, kept at 3-8C, should be limited to 10 days unless “suitable grounds for a longer shelf life can b
  
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• 36,000 sign petition against Tesco cleaning duties decision

  09-08-2020 12:55 via retailgazette.co.uk
  // Petition against Tesco decision to force shop workers to take over cleaning duties has garnered 36,000 signatures
  // Tesco recently announced plans to axe cleaning contractors and transfer the tasks to shop floor workers
  // The move will affect 1920 staff across Tesco Metro and Express stores from August 24An online petition opposing Tesco’s decision to force shop workers to take over cleaning duties has garnered 36,000 signatures.
  Organised by campaigning platform Organise, the petitio
  
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• WHSmith demands rent cuts from landlords

  09-08-2020 12:31 via retailgazette.co.uk
  // WHSmith seeks rent cuts from landlords a few days after it announced 1500 job cuts
  // WHSmith has said its post-Covid sales are slow to recover and it still hit by low footfall
  // The retailer says it is expects to post a loss of £70m-£75mNews has emerged that WHSmith is reportedly demanding rent cuts from landlords, a few days after it announced a major round of job cuts due to a slow post-Covid recovery.
  According to The Sunday Times, the books and stationery retailer has d
  
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• Magnit chief says growth shows turnround is on course

  09-08-2020 06:00 via ft.com
  Russian grocer hopes focus on prices will propel further expansion after pandemic uplift
  
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• Mike Ashley’s results will be gripping, but probably not in a good way

  09-08-2020 01:01
  
  After last year’s ‘shambles’, Frasers Group has a new auditor, but 2020 has not been kind, even to less exciting retailersCan the annual results of Frasers Group, sportswear baron Mike Ashley’s retail empire, be any more exciting than last year’s? This time in 2019, when Ashley’s business was better known as Sports Direct, several putative deadlines for the figures’ publication came and went throughout the day. In the end the figures were published a mer
  
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