Supermarket shopping

Some Ocado customers who made orders before Christmas using their Mastercards have only just had their payments taken, leaving them with delayed charges of £100+ in some cases

28 January 2020

Lidl shoppers can now buy reusable bags for fruit and veg if they don't want to put them in single-use plastic bags

8 August 2019

Aldi will be launching a trial of paper and compostable carrier bags across its stores, after it stopped selling 5p plastic bags earlier this year

10 June 2019

Waitrose has started a trial aimed at cutting down on packaging waste by allowing shoppers to bring their own containers

4 June 2019

Morrisons will next week double the price of a reusable plastic bag from 10p to 20p - and then start rolling out a new 20p paper bag to stores across the country

4 April 2019

Aldi has stopped selling 5p single-use plastic bags across its UK stores, which it says will remove 80 million plastic bags from circulation every year

8 February 2019

Morrisons is raising the price of a reusable plastic bag from 10p to 15p and introducing a 20p reusable paper bag, as part of an eight-week trial across eight stores

28 January 2019

The Government has announced plans to increase the minimum 5p charge for buying a plastic bag in England to 10p and extend it to all retailers, in a bid to cut plastic use

27 December 2018

Some Sainsbury's customers have been sent the wrong Nectar 'double-up' vouchers that are worth a fraction of the amount they'd ordered – or haven't received any at all

9 November 2018

Waitrose is trialling a service where delivery drivers will be able to put customers' shopping in their kitchens - while they are out

5 October 2018