Services · Website development · Grocery websites
Codeeo offers grocery website development UK grocery groups can run from head office and from every store. We build sites for regional supermarket chains, symbol group retailers, co-operatives, specialist importers and food wholesalers with branches in several cities. Each site handles what changes from nation to nation, such as licensing, hygiene rating schemes and alcohol pricing rules, while keeping one brand, one content system and one set of reports. Stores stay accurate locally, and head office keeps control of the claims, offers and data that carry legal weight.
This is a website for presence, search and enquiries. If the network also needs to take payment online, that is a separate store build that can share the same platform, design and store data.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform capabilities
A single shop site and a network site look similar on the surface and behave very differently underneath. A network site has to publish the same offer to two hundred stores and then withdraw it from five. It has to show a Food Hygiene Rating in Cardiff and a Food Hygiene Information Scheme result in Glasgow. It must keep head office claims consistent while letting a store manager in Belfast post a closure notice. And it has to respect national rules on data, prices, food promotion and accessibility in every market it reaches. The capabilities below are what we build to make that manageable, and the first release usually includes only the ones your estate needs on day one.
Every store record carries its nation, council, licence details and hygiene scheme, so templates show the right information automatically. A store in Scotland shows its Food Hygiene Information Scheme result; a store in Wales or Northern Ireland shows the rating it must already display at the premises.
Local rules handled by the system, not by memory.
Head office creates an offer once, chooses the regions or stores it applies to and sets its dates. Store managers can mark an offer unavailable locally but cannot change its price or wording. Offers expire on schedule so no store page shows an ended deal.
Consistent promotions with a clear audit trail.
In England, larger businesses face limits on where they place promotions of foods high in fat, sugar or salt, and those placement rules reach websites as well as shelves. We tag products and offers so templates keep restricted items out of the locations your legal team identifies, such as the home page.
Compliance designed into the templates.
Scotland and Wales set a minimum unit price for alcohol, and licensing law in Scotland and Northern Ireland differs from England and Wales. Store pages and offer templates read the store's nation and show the correct notices, age policy and wording approved by your licensing advisers.
One template, four sets of rules handled.
Advertised prices on offer and range pages must include any unavoidable charges under the drip pricing rules in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. We also support unit pricing on offer pages, so shoppers can compare value the same way they do on the shelf.
Prices that hold up to scrutiny.
A locator that handles hundreds of stores with filters for counters, services, parking, accessibility and opening hours, backed by store pages that each carry structured data and link to their own Google Business Profile.
Customers find the nearest suitable store in seconds.
A consent platform configured for UK GDPR and PECR, consent mode for analytics, separate marketing opt ins and records of consent. Store level forms send data only to the people entitled to see it, with retention periods agreed with your data protection lead.
A setup you can explain to the ICO if asked.
Roles for head office, regional managers, store managers, buyers and legal reviewers, with approval steps on anything that makes a claim about food, origin, health or price. Every published change is logged with who made it and when.
The right people approve the right content.
Templates built and tested to WCAG 2.2 at level AA, supporting your duties under the Equality Act 2010. Store pages carry accessibility details such as step free access, quiet hours and assistance, written by the stores themselves.
A site every customer can use.
Groups that run more than one fascia can manage every brand from one CMS, with separate designs and shared store data. Stores in Wales can carry Welsh language versions of key pages, and specialist importers can add pages in the languages their trade buyers read, each indexed properly as its own version.
Several brands and languages, one set of data.
Who this is for
Any grocery web development company UK groups hire should understand that the website is an operations system as much as a marketing one. These four situations cover most national and multi region grocery businesses. The right build depends on how many stores you run, how many nations you trade in and how your head office and stores share responsibility. We map that split of duties early, because it decides the editing roles, the approval steps and how much training each store needs.
You started in one part of the country and now trade in several, perhaps across a border into Scotland or Wales. The old site was built for one region and cannot handle different licensing notices or hygiene schemes. We rebuild it on a nation-aware store model so each new region becomes a data entry task rather than a development project. New stores inherit the right notices, hours format and profile links from their region as soon as they are added.
Growth into a new nation should not need a new site.
Independent owners trade under a shared fascia, and each wants a presence for their shop. We build a group site where every store has its own page and its own editor, inside templates that protect the brand. Owners post local offers and notices, head office controls national promotions, and nobody can edit another owner's store. Owners who leave the group can be removed in one step, with their page archived rather than deleted.
Members expect transparency about sourcing, governance and how surplus is used, along with practical store information. The site combines store pages with member news, AGM notices, sourcing reports and community fund pages, all with clear approvals. Accessibility and plain English matter even more here, because members include every age group. We also build simple ways for members to suggest local producers, with each suggestion routed to the buying team for that region.
You supply independent grocers and restaurants across the UK, and perhaps sell to the public from a few cash and carry sites. The website explains your brands, ranges and delivery coverage, takes trade account applications, and offers specification and allergen sheets to buyers. Public and trade sections stay separate so trade terms are never on open display. Delivery coverage maps show which regions you reach and on which days.
How we work together
We have no UK office. We work with UK clients remotely, running discovery, design reviews, training and rollout planning over video calls with shared project boards. Groups usually start with a fixed scope pilot, move to a phased rollout and then keep a support retainer for updates, audits and new templates. Larger estates sometimes take dedicated developers who work inside the group's own processes. Codeeo is a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, with 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US, rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
For network sites we usually recommend a headless CMS with a Next.js front end, which handles large store counts, traffic spikes and multiple editors well. Smaller groups can run well on WordPress. Both connect to store data, consent platforms, analytics, CRM and product information systems.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
By storing each store's nation and letting templates apply the right rules.
Licensing, minimum unit pricing for alcohol, hygiene rating schemes and some food promotion rules differ between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Instead of building separate sites, we record each store's nation, council and licence details, and the templates show the right notices automatically. Your legal team approves the wording once per nation, and every store in that nation uses it. When a rule changes, one edit updates every affected store page.
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