Tesco defended profits as it benefited from people cooking at home and eating in more, with an uptick of fresh food sales and cooking from scratch.

Tesco has doubled the time home delivery and click & collect slots can be booked in advance, from four to eight weeks. The supermarket has also moved to remove the charge for same-day delivery and ...

With first half sales up 5.1% to £33bn in the six months to August 23, Tesco said it now expected profit of £2.9bn to £3.1bn for the full year.

Tesco , Britain's biggest retailer, said on Wednesday it would next month trial grocery home deliveries with drones as it experiments with different ways to reach more customers.