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Research predicts high costs for workers return
Tesco raises €170,000 for Temple Street Tesco Ireland announced that in just one-week, customers and colleagues nationwide raised €170,000 for CHI at Temple Street during a week-long fundraiser in stores. The money raised will go towards a new upgraded CT Scanner costing €1.2 million for the children’s hospital. “While there is still an amount to be raised to reach the €1.2 million goal, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank all our customers who donated over the course of the week-long fundraiser,” said Kari Daniels, chief executive, Tesco Ireland.
Aldi to become first retailer to fully remove black plastic Aldi Ireland will become the first retailer in Ireland to fully remove all black plastic from its core food range next month. Aldi has cut 30 million difficultto-recycle black plastic trays from its products and stores, saving 410 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste and replacing it with 100% recyclable alternatives. As part of its pledge, Aldi is swapping the remainder of its black plastic trays for 100% recyclable packaging across its entire ready meal, sides and biscuit ranges.
Londis and KitKat support Pieta Bonnie Ryan joined Londis and Nestlé Ireland to announce that all proceeds from KitKat four finger chocolate bars sold in Londis stores nationwide from Thursday 3rd – Sunday 6th September would be donated to Pieta. Pieta works to support people and communities in crisis by providing free counselling and assistance to those who are at risk of suicide, engaging in self-harm and those bereaved by suicide. Pieta operates a network of 19 centres across the country.
Laya Healthcare has undertaken research on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Irish workers’ physical and mental wellbeing. The survey found four in 10 Irish workers (39%) are struggling to cope with everyday life during Covid-19 and 91% have reported some level of anxiety. The research further reveals companies predict an average expense of €37,138 on returning employees to the workplace, such as putting in place new infrastructure, PPE provision and running wellness programmes.
Retailers and FoodCloud unite to launch first national food appeal Four of Ireland’s leading retailers – Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Eurospar – have come together to support a new food initiative by FoodCloud called ‘Food For Ireland’, to help communities affected by Covid-19. Participating retailers will host a national food appeal in over 400 stores across Ireland from 17– 20 September in a bid to meet the target of 280,000 meals. Shoppers can donate much needed non-perishable food which will then be redistributed directly to charities across Ireland. For more information log onto www.foodcloud.ie.
Tesco Ireland completes €1 million refit of Dundrum Town Centre store Tesco Ireland has completed the refit of its Dundrum Town Centre store adding new services including F&F clothing, Smokin’ Bean coffee station and enhanced Tesco Mobile area for customers in the South Dublin area. The new services and complete refit are a result of €1 million investment in the store. Tesco customers in Dundrum will also have access to the Scan as You Shop facility in-store.
Government advisor predicts green recovery post Covid-19 The Taoiseach’s special economics adviser, professor Professor Alan Ahearne Alan Ahearne, of NUI Galway, has said he remains “cautiously optimistic” about a rapid economic recovery occurring post pandemic. He added that climate change is going to have an “even bigger” impact on global economies than Covid-19 and that government policy is likely to focus on a “green recovery”. The economics expert made his comments in an online presentation broadcast by the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change at NUIG this month.
Retail Excellence calls for support to pay rents Retail Excellence has written to the government to request support for retailers struggling to pay commercial rents. Duncan Graham, managing director of Retail Excellence said that sales across the retail sector in the first half of this year were down 30%. “City centres and shopping centres have been particularly badly affected. We are calling on the government to issue a code of practice and introduce an arbitration service to help with a speedy resolution of disputes between retailers and landlords,” said Graham.
Lidl Ireland signs new €1 million contract with Enerpower of P Lidl Ireland has appointed Waterfordbased energy solutions provider, Enerpower to install more than €1 million worth of solar photovoltaic Dr John Carty and Owen Power from Enerpower (PV) panels on 10 store projects with Alan Barry, Lidl across Ireland over the next 12 months. This builds on an existing long-term partnership with the Irish energy solutions provider, who previously worked to install Ireland’s largest array of PV solar panels at Lidl’s 58,000m2 Newbridge regional distribution centre in 2019. ■
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