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Asda Sheffield, South Yorkshire 2 This Asda was coping admirably with the Friday afternoon rush when our shopper visited and although there were numerous shelf stackers on duty, there was ample room to navigate the aisles. Staff...
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Q&A with Paul Reeley Store manager of the week
Who are your biggest competitors? Our main one is Tesco which is currently undergoing an extension. There's also an Aldi in Sudbury but our customers are extremely loyal to the Waitrose brand. Would you like to change anything...
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taking on tesco
Paul Foley is perhaps the only man in retail who believes he can take on Tesco. And he may also be the only man in the country who is seeing the credit crunch in a positive light. As exclusively revealed in The Grocer last week, the man...
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Asda 'acting like slave trader' with latest banana price cuts
Asda's recent banana price cuts and a decision to pull out of a supplier conference make it "no better than a Victorian slave trader", claims an international banana trade organisation. The attack was provoked by Asda's decision to slash...
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Chef to target retailers over 'five freedoms'
Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons could be next on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's hit list following his failed attempt to get Tesco to change its welfare standards for broiler standards.At last week's agm, Tesco shareholders...
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Spain's picota cherries arrive
The first of this year's Spanish picota cherry crop has arrived in UK supermarkets and will soon be backed by in-store marketing campaigns. The cherries, the only variety to be sold without stalks, will be sold in Asda, Tesco and...
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Employers watch out: Tesco has got the unions excited
Tesco's conflict with UFCW in the US is creeping across the Atlantic and the UK unions are rumblingTesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy is used to formidable opponents but US democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama must surely be...
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Waitrose offers grapes of wrath
Bogoffer of the Week is the 'buy one, get an agonising drawn-out death free' promotion unofficially being run at the Northampton outpost of Waitrose.The Barron family was delighted last week to find one of nature's deadliest predators...
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Asda has clung on to the title of cheapest retailer by the skin of a sun-dried tomato to secure a sixth straight week at the top of the charts. Despite offering unbeatable prices on seven items, Asda found itself in the unusual position...
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M&S shares plummet on profit warning
More than £1bn was wiped off the value of Marks & Spencer's shares yesterday as the retailer revealed a shock 5.3% drop in first-quarter like-for-like sales.Shares in the retailer sank 25% to 240p - the lowest level since June 2001 - as M&S...
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Esom leaves Marks & Spencer
Steven Esom, director of food at Marks & Spencer, has left the company as the retailer reports a 4.5% drop in like-for-like first-quarter food sales.Esom had been head of food at M&S since joining in June last year from Waitrose where he was...
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Tesco stops trade with Zimbabwe
Tesco is to stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe "until there is an end to the current political crisis".The supermarket chain buys around £1m worth of goods, including vegetables, from the country and would now look at other ways to support...
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Asda could defy Scots alcohol crackdown
Asda has warned it would consider defying plans by the Scottish government to crack down on cheap alcohol. There was nothing to stop it and other supermarkets from building warehouses in northern England and selling cheap alcohol online, the...
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A store every weekfrom Aldi
Aldi is to spend £1.5bn in the next five years, building a new store a week and recruiting 1,500 staff to cope with its ambitious expansion, MD Paul Foley has told The Grocer. And, in a warning that will send a chill through the big four...
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Redundancies as Asda axes pizza contract
Asda's main pizza maker is braced for 400 redundancies after the retailer cancelled its supply deal.The retailer will end its deal with Paramount Foods in September. About 144 redundancies are expected in the pizza base factory in...
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Tesco admits planning bid in guise of independent store
Tesco has made it clear it does not own any other independent retailers after admitting it was the owner of the apparently 'independent' Brian Ford's Discount Store in Barnstaple, Devon.The multiple was forced to reveal it owned the...
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Sainsbury's: website crash did not hurt us
Sainsbury's saw a record number of orders - one every two seconds - placed for deliveries on the evening its website came back online last Thursday, it claims. The retailer was forced to shut down its online service last Tuesday and it...
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Asda considers Arran deliveries using ferry
The Scottish isles are emerging as the latest battleground in the fight between supermarkets, as the number of opportunities in towns on the UK mainland dwindles.
Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, has a population of under 5,000 and… -
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Call for Irish planning overhaul to cut prices
An urgent overhaul of the retail and planning regimes in the Irish Republic is needed to allow retailers such as Asda to enter the market, according to the National Consumer Agency.A major shake-up would attract new players into the...
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waitrose plays the beautiful game
In one of the clearest signs yet that football has left its working class roots far behind, Waitrose has become the first national supermarket chain to sponsor a major football club.Waitrose has a agreed a one-year deal, believed to be...