Asda is nearing completion of a transfer of its Asda@tHome home shopping operations from depot to store. It has upgraded all 13 stores and is scaling up the range of delivery slots. Sainsbury this week opened its 36th Local store in Battersea Park, London. A spokesman said the supermarket was still discussing the roll-out of the six-store Local forecourt partnership with Shell seven months after trials were scheduled to finish. Storm Digital says more than 1,000 CTNs and c-stores have installed Newsagents Radio, its free satellite radio station. Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott banked a 13% pay rise to $1.1m in the year ended January 31, 2002. His bonus went up 2% to $1.8m. Leading German baker Kamps has rejected a hostile bid from pasta giant Barilla which valued the company at E1.76bn. The BRC will publish a new technical standard for companies supplying own label to retailers on April 22. The new standard meets the requirements of the Global Food Safety Initiative. Glasgow based cheesemaker McLelland & Son has won a £6m contract to supply discounter Netto with own label cheddar. Wal-Mart plans to open 180 to 185 new supercentres in the US in the current fiscal year. Up to 115 will be relocations or conversions. It also plans to open up to 20 Neighbourhood Markets and up to 55 Sam's Club stores. Tesco is to extend trials of biodegradable packaging from organic oranges to all organic fruit and some organic veg by the end of the year. The Bank of England will issue a new £5 note on May 21. Household products group Reckitt Benckiser said it was on track to deliver full-year targets and expected its first quarter growth in turnover to be around 7%. Hull based c-store chain Jacksons has opened three new stores in Leeds, Cleethorpes and Hull, taking its estate up to 98 stores. Asda recruitment teams will target tea dances, bingo halls and pension queues in a bid to attract more of the over 50s to work in the business. Recruitment posters, shelf labels and flyers for the Goldies' campaign will go up in stores. Safeway chairman David Webster will be the keynote speaker at the first Scottish Retail Consortium annual conference, held at the University of Edinburgh on May 2. Meats, cheeses and provisions supplier The Bfd Group has sold quiche manufacturer Mondo Foods to Gourmet Solutions. Asda has launched an automated customer telephone feedback service called Penny For Your Thoughts in all its UK stores. Every call raises 10p for Children in Need. {{NEWS }}

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