8|Retail News|March 2020|www.retailnews.ie
News Tesco Ireland named as one of the Best Workplaces in Ireland TESCO Ireland has been officially recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Ireland at the 18th annual Great Place to Work Best Workplaces in Ireland awards in the Clayton Hotel on Burlington Road, Dublin, recently. This is Tesco’s third year to be named as a top Irish workplace, which is assessed through Great Place to Work’s robust ‘Trust Index’ employee survey and a thorough ‘Culture Audit’ assessment of their policies and practices. Tesco Ireland was recognised as the 17th Best Large Workplace in Ireland 2020, as well as retaining its position as one of 20 Best Workplaces for Women 2020. “We’re very proud to have retained the Great Place to Work standard for the third year running,” noted Kari Daniels, CEO, Tesco Ireland. “As one of only 23 Certified companies in the country, it’s a great honour. We achieved accreditation for 2020 and will continue to build on learnings year on year evolving our business to better the wellbeing of our 13,000 colleagues. “Our best investment as a business is without doubt in our people. We believe in treating each other with respect, giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. we’re a proud champion of women in the workplace and thrilled to retain the recognition of Best Workplace for Women this year. As a business, we continue to strive to serve our shoppers a little better every day.”
Team Tesco receiving the Great Place to Work Certification at the annual Best Workplaces in Ireland awards.
Have a Gander at NI food waste app GANDER, a world-first award-winning app created to reduce food waste, has transformed the spending habits of Northern Ireland shoppers with a significant soar in downloads and increased sales of yellow stickered foods since its launch last August. Earmarking Northern Ireland as the initial launch pad for the app, over 41,000 downloads have taken place in the last four months, placing it in the top 12% of apps nationally. In addition, up to 45% more reduced-price food has sold, which means 45% more has been kept from going to waste. These improvements mean that stores on average are selling between 85-100% of their reduced product shown on Gander, with yellow-stickered items selling 40% quicker since the introduction of Gander, and often at higher prices as shoppers are interested in getting the reduction as soon as it appears. Gander integrates directly with a retailer’s POS, which enables retailers to automatically display to shoppers in real-time all reduced-to-clear food on the shelves within their local store. Furthermore, Gander does this automatically, meaning nothing changes in-store at all and no additional staff training. The app allows the customer ultimate control over what reduced priced goodies they search for, whether it is by location, favourite stores, reduction, food type or even dietary requirements. Speaking on the success, one of Gander’s founders, Ashley Osborne says: “The traction and growth of Gander has been amazing. We had expected a decent level of interest, but never envisaged the degree of downloads especially when only trialled in Northern Ireland initially. The level of positive buy-in demonstrated by customers and retailers alike has been phenomenal and testament that Gander’s proposition is a great fit for consumers out there. “Customer feedback has been incredibly supportive and the interest in high quality reduced food is impressive,
Blogger Denise Curran grabbing savings thanks to Gander and shopping yellow-labels. now that they can actually see what is available, whereas previously you would have to go to the store and hope to find something reduced. Plus, shoppers are feeling empowered thanks to Gander, aiding them to be more sustainable in their shopping choices. This supports the app’s endeavour to decrease and prevent food waste and create a more sustainable environment has also proved highly effective. All in all, this has led to not only a substantial reduction in surplus and waste, but an increase in overall sales of reduced items, with up to an 800% return on investment for a retailer using Gander.” Gander launched initially by integrating with Henderson Technologies award-winning EDGEPos system to display all of the yellow stickered produce from their stores in real time. Gander went live in 310 participating Spar, EuroSpar, ViVo and ViVoxtra stores. The successful launch of Gander has attracted a lot of interest from additional retailers in the Republic of Ireland and the UK, many of whom are expected to roll out with Gander in the next few months.
