Devices used after opening hours at some London branches amid rise in shoplifting and attacks on staff

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Tesco has installed smoke machines in some of its stores to stop people from stealing goods after night-time break-ins.

Britain’s biggest supermarket chain uses the 4ft-high security devices in some stores at high risk of burglary outside opening hours.

ShareAction charity to ask why boss’s pay is so high when it claims some staff do not receive real living wage

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The UK’s biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, will face criticism over its chief executive’s near-£10m pay deal at its annual shareholder meeting on Friday.

The campaign group ShareAction is planning to question why Murphy’s pay has more than doubled to £9.9m including bonuses, when some of those working in its supermarkets do not receive the real living wage.

Real Bread Campaign makes trading standards complaint over marketing by Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Lidl and Co-op

They were the best thing since sliced bread. Supermarket bakeries, with their aroma of oven-hot goods, attracted customers who wanted a fresher product than the standard pre-packed offering.

But campaigners have cast doubt on just how fresh these baked goods are, with four big supermarkets accused of misleading claims and breaches of consumer protection regulations.

GMB poll receives reports of workers being stabbed, punched and threatened with syringes

One in three Asda staff have been attacked at work, according to research that included reports of workers being stabbed, punched and threatened with syringes.

The poll of almost 1,000 members of GMB, one of the UK’s biggest unions, returned stories of delivery drivers being chased by people in cars, while store workers had food thrown at them. More than half (58%) of respondents said they had suffered injury or illness on the job.