Supermarket Shopping Secrets
External Rating36%
201360 minEnded

Supermarket Shopping Secrets

Network:BBC One

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Aired on Apr 24, 2019, 7:00 PM

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Description

Gregg Wallace goes behind the scenes with Britain's biggest food retailers - across a year - to discover how they source, make and move the food we find on the supermarket shelves.

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
July 4, 2013
Ended
April 24, 2019
Schedule
Wednesday at 8:00 PM

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Episodes (3 Seasons · 10 Episodes)

Staying on Trend

Supermarket Secrets is going behind the scenes again to reveal how the supermarkets are using the latest technology and science to bring us our food. In this series, Gregg Wallace and consumer journalist Nikki Fox discover how much the Internet is transforming the way we shop and the food in our trolleys.Tonight , the supermarkets fight to be the first with the latest food fashions. Gregg joins Tesco's Head of Plant Innovation as he invents new vegan meals that he claims will taste like meat, and sees how Asda are using ingenious growing techniques to make tomatoes sweeter than strawberries. Meanwhile, Nikki looks at the latest craze for sensory shopping.

Apr 10, 2019

60 min

On Demand

This time, in an age when we expect everything delivered in an instant, how the supermarkets are working to bring us our food on demand. Gregg sees how Ocado are using robots to revolutionize online delivery and visits a state-of-the art lettuce farm in Norfolk where they supply 300 million lettuces per year exactly when we want them. Meanwhile, Nikki tests out the Co-op's new pay-in-the-aisle technology as we move towards a checkout-free future.

Apr 17, 2019

60 min

Loyalty

The supermarkets know that shoppers don't show much allegiance to them any more, so what techniques are they coming up with to keep us coming back?

Apr 24, 2019

60 min

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