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Sainsburys DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-07
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Domain: Digital / Technology Entity scope: J Sainsbury plc is the UK listed parent; its principal trading entities and brands include Sainsbury’s, Argos, Nectar, Nectar360, Tu and Habitat, and operations are predominantly UK-based.1, 2, 3, 4 Argos remains attributable to the Group pending expected completion of its proposed sale in February 2027, with operations stated to continue as before until completion.5, 6, 7 Historical Sainsbury’s Bank evidence remains relevant: its core personal-loan, credit-card and retail-deposit portfolios legally transferred to NatWest on 1 May 2025, and customer migration completed in November 2025.8 Vendor-domicile rule applied: US/EU/UK-domiciled vendors are not treated as Israeli-origin solely because of Israeli founding or operations. Compiled: 2026-08-30 Method: Existing audit and supplied updated research memo only.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

In September 2024, Sainsbury’s announced a multi-year transformation with SAP, Accenture and AWS, adopting RISE with SAP, including S/4HANA for Retail, BTP and Ariba, on AWS.9 It also extended its long-standing relationship with Tata Consultancy Services for hybrid-cloud management.10

In May 2024, Sainsbury’s signed a five-year AI partnership with Microsoft covering Azure and generative-AI uses including shelf-edge analytics, online search and collaboration tooling.11 In August 2024, it renewed with NCR Voyix for seven years for its Commerce Platform and AI-powered self-checkout across approximately 22,500 lanes.12

Sainsbury’s uses Blue Yonder’s Luminate platform for demand forecasting, replenishment and space planning.13 Nectar360 partnered with The Trade Desk in February 2024 for open-internet audience targeting.14 In 2025, Sainsbury’s adopted Kumo AI for relational graph-machine-learning analytics; NVIDIA acquired Kumo AI in June 2026.15, 16

Sainsbury’s was reported as Amazon’s first international third-party Just Walk Out customer, with a Holborn Circus deployment opened in November 2021 and removed in February 2025.17, 18 no public evidence identified that Sainsbury’s deployed Israeli checkout-free suppliers Trigo Vision or Shopic.19, 20

The 2025 food and general-merchandise/clothing Tier 1 supplier lists each name Starplast Industries (1967) Ltd., at Elon/EBI-Tavor Industrial Zone, Afula, Israel, as a general-merchandise main production site with 224 workers.21, 22 This is a commercial product-supply-chain disclosure, not evidence of a digital-product, software, data-processing, surveillance, cybersecurity, cloud, or Israeli-state technology relationship.21, 22

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a direct Group licensing, subscription, integration or managed-service relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE/NICE Actimize, Verint, Cellebrite, NSO, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax, Trigo, or another verified Israeli-domiciled enterprise-technology supplier.9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20 no public evidence identified that the named Sainsbury’s vendors or integrators publicly mandated an Israeli-domiciled component for Sainsbury’s.9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

In September 2025, Sainsbury’s began an eight-week live-facial-recognition trial at its Sydenham, London, and Oldfield Park, Bath, stores using Facewatch technology.23, 24 Facewatch compares live CCTV against a watchlist of subjects of interest; Sainsbury’s reported a 46% reduction in theft and aggression during the pilots.23 Facewatch is UK-domiciled in the supplied evidence, including its ICO registration; no Israeli provenance was identified.25, 26

Sainsbury’s subsequently confirmed continued use at Sydenham and Bath Oldfield Park and expansion to Dalston, Elephant and Castle, Ladbroke Grove, Camden and Whitechapel.27 Earlier trade reporting also described deployments or planned deployment at Ladbroke Grove, Dalston, Elephant & Castle and Whitechapel into January 2026.28, 29 Sainsbury’s states that trained colleagues review every alert and images are deleted immediately where there is no recognition; these are company operational claims rather than independently verified performance findings.27

The current Group privacy policy includes dedicated CCTV and facial-recognition-processing sections, but does not identify an Israeli processor or infrastructure location.30 Big Brother Watch stated in June 2026 that Sainsbury’s planned a rollout to 200 shops; Sainsbury’s subsequently confirmed plans for wider national introduction while continuing to assess performance, but did not verify that quantitative figure.31, 27

Sainsbury’s operates SmartShop scan-and-pay and trialled payment-enabled handsets in 2025, including trials at Richmond and Kempston and an October 2025 Rugby rollout; the supplied evidence describes the programme as built on Sainsbury’s infrastructure and NCR Voyix technology.32, 33 Sainsbury’s has also deployed AI-powered self-checkout video analytics, and UK-domiciled SAI Group is publicly identified as a visual-AI loss-prevention vendor active in the Sainsbury’s network.34

Facewatch’s retrieved current public material describes a UK retail live-facial-recognition service using specialised algorithms and human expertise, but does not identify AWS, Amazon Rekognition, Israel, Israeli staff or R&D, hosting location, or another data processor.35 ICO material dated 28 March 2023 records its concluded investigation into Facewatch’s shared national watchlist and biometric processing; it records changes by Facewatch and that regulatory action was not required at that point, without identifying AWS, Amazon, Israel, an Israeli processor or Israeli hosting.36

A July 2026 secondary report alleged that Facewatch uses AWS hosting and Amazon Rekognition as a secondary accuracy check, citing a Facewatch spokesperson.37 That is an unresolved lead rather than an established finding because the directly retrieved Facewatch and ICO materials do not substantiate those technical assertions.37, 35, 36 Even if AWS use were confirmed, AWS is not an Israeli-domiciled or Israeli-controlled provider, and vendor-level Project Nimbus activity would not establish that Sainsbury’s biometric data are processed in Israel.38, 39, 40

No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin facial recognition, behavioural analytics, gait analysis, predictive-policing, sentiment monitoring, social-media monitoring or workforce-surveillance tools used directly or through a Sainsbury’s managed provider.23, 25, 34, 27, 35, 26, 36 A 2018 parliamentary submission referred indirectly to prospective facial-recognition age-estimation at Sainsbury’s self-service tills, but relied on press reporting and is insufficient to establish a current deployment or supplier.41

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Sainsbury’s confirmed cloud relationships are AWS for the SAP RISE transformation and Microsoft Azure for its AI partnership, while TCS manages a hybrid estate.9, 10, 11 The public announcements do not specify AWS or Azure regions hosting Sainsbury’s workloads.9, 11

Sainsbury’s Financial Services’ July 2026 privacy policy identifies processing of account, transaction, payment-card, credit, identity-document, device, CCTV, correspondence, analytics and marketing data, including retention of historical Sainsbury’s Bank and Argos Financial Services data for legal and regulatory purposes.42 It describes sharing within the Group and use of IT-infrastructure, analytics, advertising and security/fraud-prevention vendors, and permits safeguarded transfers to suppliers or service providers outside the UK.42 It does not identify Israel, an Israeli processor, an Israeli data centre, or each processor’s hosting country or region.42 The Group privacy policy similarly states that some processing may occur outside the UK without identifying Israel or individual processors.30

Project Nimbus is an Israeli-government cloud programme; the Israeli Ministry of Finance describes locally hosted and processed/stored government-cloud services, and Google identifies itself as a selected provider.38, 39 Associated Press reported in 2025 that Amazon and Google provide cloud-computing and AI services to the Israeli military under that contract.40 These vendor-level sources do not identify J Sainsbury plc, Argos, Habitat, Nectar, Nectar360 or Sainsbury’s Financial Services as a Project Nimbus party, subcontractor, beneficiary or user.38, 39, 40

The unresolved Facewatch/AWS allegation does not establish any Sainsbury’s Group data flow or hosting arrangement.37, 35, 36 no public evidence identified that Group customer, payment, loyalty, biometric, employee or financial-services data are routed to, stored in, processed in, or legally administered from Israel.42, 30, 37, 35, 36

No public evidence identified that Sainsbury’s operates, leases or co-locates data-centre infrastructure in Israel; participates in Project Nimbus; routes Group data through Israeli data centres; or contracts for Israeli state digital-sovereignty, residency or resilience services.42, 30, 38, 39, 40 The absence of published cloud-region, processor, subprocessor and architecture details means no affirmative conclusion can be drawn about all possible data routing, support access or legal accessibility.42, 30

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of J Sainsbury plc or a current Group brand, including Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited, Argos Limited, Nectar/Nectar360, Habitat, Tu or Sainsbury’s Financial Services, maintaining a contract, partnership, service relationship or technology provision to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israeli intelligence agencies, police, settlement bodies, or another Israeli state-security recipient.1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 4

No public evidence identified that Sainsbury’s has provided AI/ML, computer vision, surveillance-derived training data, autonomous systems, dual-use digital systems, offensive-cyber capabilities, zero-day tools, or purpose-built targeting, fire-control or kinetic systems to Israeli state, military, intelligence or security entities.11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 34, 43, 44

The available Project Nimbus evidence concerns AWS, Google and Israeli-government procurement rather than Sainsbury’s.38, 39, 40 TIME reported that a reviewed March 2024 draft Google consulting contract concerned a Google Cloud landing zone for Israel’s Ministry of Defense, while stating the reviewed version was unsigned; it does not evidence Sainsbury’s involvement.45

No verified Sainsbury’s activity was identified after 19 July 2024 or November 2024 to which the specified constructive-notice timing could be applied.38, 39, 40, 45

NatWest and Sainsbury’s announced an embedded-finance partnership in April 2026, covering a NatWest Nectar credit card and savings and loans through NatWest Boxed.46 The 2026 Bank annual report states that former core customer portfolios had already transferred to NatWest and that the Bank expected removal of its deposit-taking permissions in 2026.8 no public evidence identified that residual financial-services operations or the NatWest embedded-finance arrangements use NICE Actimize or another Israeli-domiciled financial-crime platform.46, 8

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Sainsbury’s publicly identified AI portfolio includes Microsoft Azure generative AI for shelf replenishment and online search, Blue Yonder supply-chain ML, Kumo AI relational graph ML, NCR Voyix AI self-checkout, and Nectar360’s in-house Pollen generative-AI retail-media platform, announced in June 2025.11, 12, 13, 15, 43

The live-facial-recognition programme and SAI Group’s self-checkout visual analytics are relevant computer-vision deployments in the retail estate.23, 34 Sainsbury’s also announced a trial with University of Nottingham spinout Vet Vision AI, using portable dairy-farm cameras and behavioural-video analysis to generate animal-welfare insights; the announcement presents this as veterinary and animal-welfare technology, not customer surveillance or state-sector technology.44

No Israeli-domiciled AI or autonomous-systems vendor was identified in confirmed deployments.11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 34, 43, 44 no public evidence identified of Israeli-origin autonomous-store, smart-cart, predictive-policing, surveillance-AI or purpose-built military-AI technology deployed by Sainsbury’s.19, 20, 44

No public evidence identified of Sainsbury’s providing AI/ML, training data, surveillance-derived data, autonomous systems or autonomous tracking systems to Israeli state, military, intelligence, police or security bodies.11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 34, 43, 44

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Sainsbury’s maintains an internal Digital, Tech and Data function and held Tech Con in 2025 with more than 1,700 attendees; publicly confirmed partners included StrongPoint, VusionGroup and Zebra Technologies.47 Estimated annual ICT spend was approximately $968 million in 2024.48

J Sainsbury plc is an active UK public limited company incorporated in 1922, with registered office at 33 Charterhouse Street, London, and its latest accounts are to 28 February 2026.49 The 2026 annual-report page describes the Group as a UK-focused retailer with approximately 140,000 colleagues across the UK.3 Sainsbury’s Holdings Limited is a wholly controlled intermediate holding company, with J Sainsbury plc recorded as holding 75% or more of shares and voting rights and appointment/removal rights.50 Sainsbury’s Bank plc is UK-incorporated and domiciled, with Edinburgh as its principal place of business.8 Argos Limited remains an active UK company and is in scope pending expected sale completion.5, 6, 7

The reviewed corporate records and complete 2026 related-undertakings schedule disclose no Israel- or occupied-territory-domiciled Group company, branch, office, R&D site or data-centre location; the schedule identifies overseas branches in Bangladesh and India, but none in Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territory.1, 2, 8, 6, 49, 3, 4, 51 no public evidence identified of Israeli R&D facilities, innovation labs, acquisitions, venture investments, patents, licences, academic-IP arrangements or co-development agreements operated by Sainsbury’s.1, 2, 3, 4, 51

The current leadership and governance records identify Martin Scicluna as Chair, Simon Roberts as CEO, Bláthnaid Bergin as CFO, Jo Bertram, Katie Bickerstaffe, Steve Hare, Jo Harlow, Adrian Hennah, Tanuj Kapilashrami and Keith Weed as non-executive directors, and Nick Grant as General Counsel and Company Secretary.52, 53 Their individual biographies and named live searches identified no personal investments, board roles or disclosed family-office holdings in Israeli technology, surveillance, cyber, AI, SIGINT or military-technology companies.54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 A 20 August 2026 regulatory announcement records shareholdings of Simon Roberts and Bláthnaid Bergin following notified transactions, but does not identify external technology interests.68 This is the bounded public-record conclusion for every current director and key officer; unreported private interests are not inferred as qualifying evidence.

As at 4 August 2026, VESA Equity Investment S.à r.l. held 235,773,510 ordinary shares, representing 10.00% of voting rights, and was the sole disclosed holder at or above the 10% threshold; BlackRock, Qatar Holdings, Schroders, Pzena and Bestway were disclosed below that threshold.69, 70 The Group’s shareholder page also lists Qatar Holdings, Schroders, Pzena and Bestway below that threshold, while Qatar Investment Authority/Qatar Holding LLC had reduced its interest from 10.143996% to 6.828164% in December 2025.71, 72

A July 2025 SEC filing concerning another issuer’s shares describes VESA’s ownership chain through EP Equity Investment S.à r.l. and EP Investment S.à r.l., identifying Daniel Křetínský as EP Investment’s ultimate beneficial owner.73, 74 The filing concerns Foot Locker securities and is not a Sainsbury’s DTR disclosure; Sainsbury’s own disclosure identifies VESA as holding 10.00% voting rights and does not establish VESA control of Sainsbury’s.70, 74 VESA’s current site identifies Křetínský as founder and Investment Committee Chair, and identifies J Sainsbury’s as an approximately 10%-voting-rights holding.75, 76 Its displayed portfolio lists Casino, TF1, PostNL, Fnac Darty, Quadient and J Sainsbury’s, and does not identify an Israeli-domiciled cyber, surveillance, AI, SIGINT or military-technology company.75, 77 Named searches of VESA, EP Equity Investment, EP Investment, Křetínský and Tkáč likewise identified no qualifying Israeli technology interest. The bounded disclosed-record result is therefore zero; undisclosed holdings are not presumed.

VESA’s September 2020 announcement stated that it was then owned 53% by Křetínský and 47% by Patrik Tkáč.78 Historic SEC filings and a December 2020 group-reorganisation announcement also describe a Luxembourg/EP ownership structure.79, 80, 81 The retrieved record does not reconcile the dated 2020 two-investor statement with the 2025 ownership-chain description; they should not be treated as interchangeable current ownership evidence.73, 78, 74, 81

The Starplast disclosure is a 2025 general-merchandise manufacturing disclosure, not an acquisition, investment, technology licensing arrangement or R&D collaboration.21, 22

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Big Brother Watch condemned Sainsbury’s September 2025 Facewatch trial as deeply disproportionate and chilling, called for its abandonment and a government ban on retail live facial recognition, and referred to documented Facewatch misidentification concerns.24 In February 2026, The Register and The Guardian reported a Sainsbury’s-store incident in which a shopper was wrongly approached or ejected after a Facewatch-related identification error; Sainsbury’s attributed the incident reported by The Guardian to human error, while Facewatch said the shopper was neither alerted nor on its database.82, 83

ICO materials concerning Facewatch record that its inquiry concerned retail facial-recognition processing and shared potential-offenders watchlists, and that Facewatch made operational changes during ICO engagement.84 The 2023 ICO letter records the concluded investigation, initial deficiencies, subsequent information and changes from Facewatch, and the ICO’s decision that regulatory action was not required at that point.36 In 2026, Information Commissioner John Edwards told a parliamentary committee that the ICO found deficiencies in Facewatch’s offering and ensured they were remedied.85 Neither source identifies Sainsbury’s as the subject of ICO enforcement.84, 85, 36 No ICO fine or data-protection enforcement action against Sainsbury’s or Sainsbury’s Bank was identified in the supplied record.42, 30, 84, 85, 36

The supplied document-scoped pre-scan found no reference to Sainsbury’s in the specified 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates, UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23, or the listed DBIO, BDS, Amnesty, HRW, Al-Haq, PAX, KLP and Who Profits reports.86, 87 The 2023 OHCHR database is not exhaustive by its terms, and the 2020 Special Rapporteur report describes the database mandate as restrictive and non-adjudicative; these document-specific no-hits do not establish an absence from all NGO, regulator, procurement or legal records.86, 87

Sainsbury’s 2021/22 Human Rights Saliency Report states that more than 60% of its food suppliers were based in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Chile, Spain, Israel and the Netherlands, but does not identify suppliers, locations within Israel or the occupied territories, technology services, data-processing arrangements or state relationships.88

No public evidence identified of a boycott, divestment, sanctions, export-control, regulatory, court, parliamentary, NGO or academic action specifically concerning Sainsbury’s technology provision to Israel or occupied territories.86, 87, 21, 22 no public evidence identified of a Sainsbury’s technology-related inquiry, legal challenge, sanctions investigation or export-control action relating to Israeli state entities.86, 87, 38, 39, 40

Footnotes

  1. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/media/sx2bk5c5/j-sainsbury-plc-annual-report-and-financial-statements-2026-interactive.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/investors/annual-report-2026/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/about-us/our-brands/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/media/g5gisazi/sainsbury-s-agrees-sale-of-argos-to-swift-partners.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01081551 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01081551 ↩ ↩2

  8. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/media/tocizha3/sainsburys-bank-annual-report-2026.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://news.sap.com/uk/2024/09/sainsburys-partners-with-sap-accenture-and-aws-on-transformation-programme/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  10. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252526486/Sainsburys-outsources-for-cloud-first-benefits ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://ukstories.microsoft.com/2024/05/17/sainsburys-and-microsoft-collaborate-to-power-up-customer-and-colleague-experience-with-ai/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  12. https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2024/05-08-2024-sainsburys-partners-with-ncr-voyix-for-exceptional-customer-experience ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  13. https://blueyonder.com/customers/sainsburys ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  14. https://martechrecord.com/press-releases/nectar360-and-the-trade-desk-partner-to-bring-retail-medias-precision-to-the-open-internet/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kumo-launches-kumorfm-2-the-first-foundation-model-to-outperform-machine-learning-on-enterprise-data-scaling-to-500-billion-rows-302741975.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  16. https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/03/nvidia-snaps-kumo-ai-predictive-ai-startup-known-extreme-accuracy/ ↩

  17. https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2025/02/04/sainsburys-just-walk-out-tech/ ↩

  18. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/sainsburys-strips-out-just-walk-out-tech-from-checkout-free-store/700621.article ↩

  19. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211018005203/en/Trigo-Powers-Fully-Autonomous-Tesco-Grocery-Store-in-Central-London ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://techstartups.com/2022/08/09/israeli-tech-startup-shopic-bags-35-million-bring-ai-enabled-smart-cart-top-u-s-grocery-chains/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  21. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/media/4d4n1b1k/food-tier-1-supplier-list-2025.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/media/oked2dyf/gm-and-clothing-tier-1-supplier-list-2025.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sainsburys_lfr/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  24. https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/response-to-sainsburys-trial-of-live-facial-recognition-in-stores/ ↩ ↩2

  25. https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4216/facewatch-reality-behind-marketing-discourse ↩ ↩2

  26. https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/Z224704X ↩ ↩2

  27. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/purpose-in-action/we-must-put-safety-first-in-our-stores/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  28. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202601/sainsburys-rolls-out-facewatch-lfr-tesco-gets-retrospective-with-auror ↩

  29. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202601/sainsburys-rolls-out-facewatch-lfr-tesco-gets-retrospective-with-auror ↩

  30. https://privacy-hub.sainsburys.co.uk/privacy-policy/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  31. https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-comments-on-sainsburys-plans-to-roll-out-facial-recognition-in-200-shops/ ↩

  32. https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/05/sainsburys-smartshop-2/ ↩

  33. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2025/10/14/sainsburys-rugby-store-notches-up-a-smartshop-pay-on-handset-technology-first-following-trial ↩

  34. https://news.saigroups.co.uk/visual-ai-a-game-changer-for-retail-chains-amid-challenging-times/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  35. https://www.facewatch.co.uk/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  36. https://ico.org.uk/media2/migrated/4031293/ic-331345-y5n0-facewatch-letter-redacted.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  37. https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-linked-aws-used-uk-shoplifting-facial-recognition-ai ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  38. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/_bpress_20102022 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  39. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-selected-to-provide-cloud-services-to-the-state-of-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  40. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  41. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/99825/pdf/ ↩

  42. https://money.sainsburys.co.uk/legals/leg-reg-privacy-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  43. https://www.nectar360.co.uk/news/nectar360-pollen/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  44. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/news/press-releases/making-moo-ves-sainsbury-s-first-retailer-to-milk-the-benefits-of-new-ai-vet-tech-to-improve-animal-welfare-and-efficiency-on-dairy-farms/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  45. https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/ ↩ ↩2

  46. https://www.natwestgroup.com/news-and-insights/news-room/press-releases/our-updates/2026/apr/natwest-and-sainsburys-announce-new-partnership.html ↩ ↩2

  47. https://retailwit.com/sainsburys-tech-con-2025-wraps-as-cx-focused-uk-grocery-giant-hails-its-biggest-and-best-event-yet/ ↩

  48. https://www.globaldata.com/store/report/j-sainsbury-plc-enterprise-tech-analysis/ ↩

  49. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647 ↩ ↩2

  50. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16565950/persons-with-significant-control ↩

  51. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/media/sx2bk5c5/j-sainsbury-plc-annual-report-and-financial-statements-2026-interactive.pdf ↩ ↩2

  52. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/about-us/our-leadership/ ↩

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  55. https://corporate.sainsburys.co.uk/about-us/our-leadership/simon-roberts-bod/ ↩

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