All The Grocer articles in 20 December 2008 – Page 3
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NewsGrocer 33: Waitrose turns up the goodwill
At this time of goodwill to all men, it seems only fitting that this year's final top store award has been won primarily for great service.
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NewsGrocer 33: Morrisons has the last word on price
Morrisons has won the final pricing contest of 2008, making it two weeks in a row at the top. Asda was firmly shunted into second place by Morrisons' £53.09 basket, which was a full £1.87 cheaper than the usual champion of cheap's £54.96 offering...
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NewsGrocer 33: End of year review - downturn makes price fight fiercer
Asda remains the retailer with the lowest prices but is having to work harder than ever to retain its pricing crown. The big four have responded aggressively to the economic downturn, with Tesco launching its discount brands...
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Parfetts heading for eight Local 4U stores
Parfetts Cash & Carry remains on track to open eight Local 4U stores by next summer following the opening of its sixth store in Bulwell, near Nottingham , this week.The 2,000 sq ft store is on the site of a former DVD-rental...
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Tesco acts on impulse to up discount range
Tesco is widening its discounter range into impulse products such as waters, smoothies and crisps in the new year, in the first major extension of the tertiary branded range. The 200 new products will hit shelves in January, five months...
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Parkie talks turkey in M&S's latest ad
Michael Parkinson has become the latest celebrity to do a voiceover for a Marks & Spencer TV food ad in the post-Dervla Kirwan era.In the final weekend before Christmas, M&S is set to add to its range of promotions, which last week included...
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Ad of the Week: Monkey's christmas message
You can't stop progress. And PG Tips has come a long way over the years, its tea-sipping chimps of the 1950s (and 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s) clambering out of adland's primordial soup and evolving into the TV dream team of hernia-voiced funnyman Johnny...
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NewsAdvertising: Wall's shares its passion for the best bits
Bangers have been making a bigger bang in the world of meat advertising, with Wall’s sausages far outstripping beef and lamb in the four weeks to 30 November. While meat advertising overall is down 32% on 2007 levels this year, in November it was up 34% year-on-year across TV and ...
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Alternative CV: Father Christmas, chief operating officer, Lapland Gift Solutions Inc
What's your nickname? The elves started calling me Captain Birdseye a few years ago and it's stuck. In Japan they call me Annual Gift Man.
Who was your first teenage crush and why? I always fancied the Tooth Fairy until she hooked up with that Easter Bunny idiot. But anyone in stockings is good with me. -
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Amoy turns arty for Chinese New Year
Oriental specialist Amoy is celebrating Chinese New Year with a stylish redesign its entire range.The Heinz-owned company is decorating the brand's new black packaging with ornate Chinese art to emphasise the authenticity of foods including...
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Analysts optimistic as Premier talks to investors over debt
Analysts have welcomed Premier Foods' confirmation of talks with potential investors as the company works to restructure its £1.8bn debt - but warned that talks were still at an early stage.The company is rumoured to be seeking £300m to...
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Asda: consumers will be richer next year, but won't splash out
Asda has predicted disposable income will actually rise in 2009, on the back of forecasts by the Centre for Economics and Business Research predicting inflation will fall below zero in the summer. Asda’s income tracker has forecast that...
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Landmark boss attacks Brown over the ban on tobacco display
Landmark Wholesale MD Martin Williams has taken his objections to the Government's tobacco display ban right to the top by penning an outspoken letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.The letter, seen by The Grocer, calls on Brown to...
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Sainsbury's cracks availability
Sainsbury's has overcome its traditional Achilles' heel, boosting its availability from 96.3% to 98.2% and leaping from last place, in The Grocer 33 half-year review last year, to first."This is great news," said Sainsbury's director of...
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Retailers try to avoid empty shelves by helping suppliers
As the financial crisis pushes suppliers to the brink, supermarkets have started to give them more support. But will it last, asks James Ball
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Careers File: Christmas without Woolies is sad but it's best staff can take heart
News of Woolworths' demise is made more poignant by its timing, finds Sian Harrington
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Sun Ripened Sweet Chilli joins SunBites
Walkers has added a Sun Ripened Sweet Chilli flavour to its healthy SunBites range to tap into growing consumer enthusiasm for healthy crisps.The company said the new flavour, out shortly, scored higher than other flavours in consumer trials...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on a flurry of Christmas specials
The annual flurry of festive cookery specials seems to have added resonance this year – perhaps because the renaissance of scratch cooking dovetails with the desire to sit by the warm hearth of nostalgia. Whatever the reason, traditional is back....
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Comment & Opinion
Editor's Comment: The world order in grocery is still much as it was
Fasten your seatbelts, folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Over the next 140 pages, in screaming technicolour, we're taking you on a journey of this rollercoaster of a year. It's not always been scenic, it's often been downright scary, and at the...
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PayPoint hit by fresh complaint over exclusivity
PayPoint has found itself in the firing line for the second time in as many months as another terminal provider complains to the OFT about its exclusivity agreements. Retail Gateway, whose parent company is Helperton, has written to the...
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