All Waitrose & Partners articles
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Features and analysis
Waitrose heavily ramps up convenience store plans
Waitrose is ramping up investment in its portfolio with plans to open up to 100 convenience stores across the UK over five years
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Features and analysis
Waitrose enters independent channel with Margiotta partnership
This is the first time Waitrose products will be available through independent convenience stores.
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News
Waitrose expands two-hour delivery service following trial
Waitrose is expanding its Waitrose Rapid Delivery trial outside of London, following a successful trial.
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News
Waitrose ditches plastic bags for home compostable alternative
Waitrose & Partners has announced plans to remove 5p single-use plastic carrier bags and loose fruit and vegetable plastic bags from all its stores by spring 2019.
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News
Waitrose scraps disposable cups and free coffee in cafés
Waitrose loyalty card customers will no longer be able to get free hot drinks in disposable cups, after the retailer pledged to remove them from all stores this Autumn.
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News
Waitrose posts like-for-like sales and profits dip
Waitrose has blamed market conditions and not Brexit for the fall in like-for-like sales and profits revealed in its half year results.
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News
Waitrose like for like sales slip in "challenging" market
Waitrose has reported “encouraging” full year results with profits standing firm despite a dip in like for like sales and “exceptionally tough” market conditions.
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News
Waitrose to open 14 new supermarkets and c-stores
Waitrose is planning to open 14 new shops across the UK in 2015, including seven little Waitrose convenience stores.
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News
Tesco and Morrisons announce Christmas sales decline
Tesco and Morrisons have posted a decline in like-for-like Christmas sales, with the increasing importance of convenience influencing both sets of results.
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News
Waitrose continues to expand its convenience store estate
Waitrose is investing in its convenience store estate, with plans to open at least 10 new Little Waitrose stores in and around London next year.
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News
Waitrose opens first-ever farm shop on company estate
Waitrose has opened its first-ever farm shop on company estate
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News
Chain reveals ambition for Little Waitrose
Waitrose is to expand its convenience estate over the next 12 months.
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News
Little Waitrose format goes big on expansion
Waitrose is to accelerate its move into the convenience sector, starting with the opening of 20 ‘Little Waitrose’ stores within the M25 by the end of 2012.
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News
Waitrose damages newsagent’s trade
Waitrose is refusing to back down on its decision to sell newspapers and magazines in its new Cambridge convenience store, despite the protests of a neighbouring newsagent who claims his business is being "bled dry".
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News
Waitrose reveals its convenience model
Waitrose is the latest of the big supermarkets to enter the convenience market with the opening of the first example of its new store format.
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News
Waitrose steps up its push to convenience retailing
Waitrose's decision to open 300 small stores across the country has been welcomed by many in the convenience store industry, who feel it shows great faith in the sector's strength.
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Opinion
Waitrose wants a piece of the local action
Waitrose's decision to open 300 smaller stores is a classic good news/bad news scenario, says Convenience Store editor David Rees
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News
Waitrose’s c-store plan
Waitrose has revealed that Trinity Square, Nottingham will be the home of its first convenience store. The 5,815sq ft outlet is due to open on December 11 opposite the city’s John Lewis department store. It will feature a self-service food...
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News
Waitrose set to take convenience route
The first Waitrose convenience store could be up and running within six months, C-Store has learned.
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News
Waitrose ready to open neighbourhood stores
Waitrose is to launch a new format for villages and market towns, but denied it is planning a national c-store rollout.