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Tesco Mobile finds new brand image
Tesco has revamped its mobile phone business and is rolling out a marketing drive to draw in customers. The company has overhauled its tariffs and developed a new brand image to stand out from rival operators, with a cyan blue colour scheme...
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Marks sets out plan for the Co-op’s big future
Marks sets out plan for the Co-op’s big future Having agreed to buy Somerfield for the knockdown price of £1.57bn, the Co-op boss turns his attention to the task in hand. Mark Choueke reports
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Sainsbury’s pours its last drink online
The retailer is abandoning its drinks website at the end of the month. Where did it go wrong, asks Graham Holter
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The Flying Dutchman
Morrisons caught its rivals off guard with its recovery. CEO Marc Bolland tells Adam Leyland how it was done Marc Bolland doesn’t want to be known as ‘a marketer’. He’s a retailer now, CEO of Morrisons, entrusted with the keys by Sir Ken and doing well by all accounts. But ...
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Waitrose shoppers go for brown meat
It seems even Waitrose customers are feeling the pinch, with the retailer revealing this week that shoppers are opting for cheaper poultry cuts. Waitrose said that although customers were still defying the economic downturn to buy free-range...
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Price Survey: Week of 19th Juy 2008
Morrisons made it a double success this week as it undercut Asda by a mere penny to break its rival’s seven-week stranglehold at the top of the price chart. Despite offering the cheapest price on just four items, a 60p saving over Asda on fresh...
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Availability: Week of 19th July 2008
Asda Chelmsford, Essex 2 With aisle ends piled high with special offers and stocking trolleys parked in the vegetable section, the store had a cluttered feel to it. Checkout queues were long, while a...
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Hot Topic: What are the odds on Andy Bond taking over from the 'Mugabe of retail'?
A Rose by any other name would smell sweeter. Or so 22% of M&S shareholders seem to think.
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Co-op's one-stop shop for media buyers
The Co-operative Group has launched a one-stop media centre to make it easier for companies to advertise across all its businesses. The move, which the society claims is the first of its kind for a major retailer, will allow the Co-op Group...
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Ocado sets up unique waste reduction drive
Ocado has launched a groundbreaking new initiative it claims will help consumers dramatically reduce their food waste. From September, the online retailer will display product use-by dates online and on receipts. "It means the food we sell...
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Henderson offers food-to-go online
Northern Irish Spar wholesaler Henderson Group has launched an online ordering system for its food-to-go offer. The scheme, being trialled at the company-owned Spar store in Great Victoria Street, Belfast, is being run in partnership with...
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Spar retailers boycott Vodafone over rate cut
Almost 3,500 convenience stores boycotted Vodafone yesterday by refusing to sell its top-ups after the mobile phone operator announced it was cutting retailers' commission by one percentage point. Led by Spar retailers, they threatened...
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Poundland picks up the pace
Poundland is on course to open 30 new stores this financial year as the value retailer reaps the benefits of the economic downturn. This week Poundland opened new stores in Bangor, north Wales, and Hammersmith, west London. The additions take...
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Tesco signs up Lebara Mobile for cheap calls
Tesco has struck a distribution deal with mobile network Lebara Mobile to offer cheap international calls. Lebara Mobile's airtime is now available in 1,900 Tesco stores while Lebara SIM cards will be available at 90 stores from this month. ...
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Waitrose readies itself to take on convenience
Waitrose has appointed Anthony Wysome as head of convenience to oversee a new wave of small shops, the first of which could open early next year. Wysome was promoted from senior project manager to take charge of plans to expand into the...
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In Brief: Wine website axed; Partnership rolls out; BRC Shop Price Index
Wine website axed Sainsbury's is closing its dedicated wine website at the end of July. Although the site offered wines by the case, customers already ordered wine by the case from its grocery site,...
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Supplier in legal battle to stop Tesco using face on egg boxes
An Essex free-range egg farmer has won the battle to stop Tesco using his family business photographs on its packaging.The contract for Ian Chisholm of Norton Mandeville, Essex, to supply Tesco with free-range eggs ended last month, yet...
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Co-op Group turnover outstrips John Lewis
Co-operatively owned businesses generated £27.4bn for the UK economy last year, helped by the clout of The Co-operative Group. The sector made a combined pre-tax profit of £539m in 2007 and 10.8 million people - about a fifth of the UK...
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Duty managers go in Sainsbury's shake-up
All duty managers at Sainsbury's supermarkets have been put on a 12-week redundancy plan and are having to reapply for their jobs as part of a radical overhaul of its management structure. The changes, which will result in some job...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited Premier Stowmarket, SuffolkCo-op Group Woodhatch, SurreyMcColl's Rotherhamsomerfield Springburn Centre, Glasgowtesco express Chelmsford, EssexHow they...