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The sky's the limit as Asda eyes global supply deals
Carrefour and Tesco both started doing it five years ago. Now Asda is getting in on the act too. With the full might of parent company Wal-Mart behind it, Asda has entered into negotiations with big brands to thrash out global supply deals with...
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Co-op's 'Grown By Us' broccoli on sale
The Co-operative Group will begin selling broccoli grown on its own farm for the first time this summer. The broccoli, grown in Cambridgeshire, will be added to the group's "Grown By Us" range in its East Anglian stores from mid-June to...
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Collaboration 'notenough'
The Co-operative Group, one of the 37 companies working with IGD to cut travel miles in the grocery industry, has written to energy minister Malcolm Wicks asking for the Energy Bill to be amended. The letter, seen exclusively by The...
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Frozen fish sales go swimmingly
"A positive way to bring in new consumers" is how judges of The Grocer Gold Awards rated Aldi's own-label frozen fish range, The Fishmonger. Thanks to a combination of health, affordability and convenience, frozen fish is attracting new...
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Waitrose to source 100% British bacon
Waitrose will source all of its bacon from British farmers by the end of the year, it announced this week. The retailer already sources 100% of its fresh pork and 90% of bacon from UK suppliers, but has now pledged to stop selling...
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Ocado builds Yorkshire hub to serve north
A new distribution centre for Ocado is being built in Yorkshire to enable the online retailer to better serve the north. The development, on a new industrial estate in Birstall known as Springwell 27, will be one of six RDCs all served...
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Sainsbury's 'in real trouble' with website offline for days
Sainsbury's website meltdown could lose it thousands of online customers in the next few months, The Grocer has learnt.The retailer claimed that a computer fault crashed its home delivery website, which has been suspended since Tuesday...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited costcutter Finchley Road, London LONDIS Harrogate, North Yorkshire somerfield Stamford, Lincolnshire spar Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire tesco express Aberdeen How...
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Price Survey
They are separated by the faintest of margins, but Asda has narrowly undercut Morrisons to record its fourth week as cheapest retailer. Asda's £52.32 basket was just 9p less than Morrisons' total, although they did not match as many...
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Availability
Asda Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire 0 Our shopper was highly impressed by the standard of tidiness at this bright and spacious Asda. The aisles were free from shelf stackers and packing trolleys and staff were polite and quick to...
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Sainsbury's shares fall
Shares in Sainsbury's fell 10.5p to close on 325.5p yesterday as the chain's first-quarter sales failed to meet analyst expectations.Sainsbury's reported a 3.4% increase in first-quarter like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, but analysts had...
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Waitrose snaps up Woolworths stores
Waitrose has snapped up four London stores from high street retailer Woolworths.Woolworths has disposed of the leases of the stores to the supermarket chain for £25.5m, and the deal is expected to be completed by 31 July.Woolworths...
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What the papers said
?Sainsbury's has started selling milk packaged in a recyclable plastic pouch in 35 of its stores to try to reduce packaging waste, according to The Times. The pouches, produced in partnership with Dairy Crest, are claimed to reduce milk...
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Grocer of the year
The dark days that followed the 2004 Safeway acquisition are firmly in the past for MorrisonsSir Ken Morrison may have retired to tend the flowers in his new walled garden, but he left the business on a high in February, able to proclaim...
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britain's favourite supermarket
Tesco won the highly coveted title of Britain's Favourite Supermarket for the fourth consecutive year, but, with strong competition from rival retailers, the contest is getting closer. Based on Nielsen's annual Homescan PanelView Survey...
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online retailer of the year
Even in the face of a momentous year for online rival Ocado, Tesco was the clear online champion. Tesco introduced Tesco Direct, its innovative non-food website and catalogue service in September 2006. The service marked the culmination...
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independent retailer of the year
Mills Group has scooped the title of Independent Retailer of the Year for its original approachFollowing a two-year reign by Spar retailer Tates, c-store and CTN chain Mills Group has made it to the top spot.Mills Group, which...
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The Grocer 33: Availability award 2008
It was another close call on stock availability, but Asda edged ahead of last year's champion Morrisons to add the prize for availability to its The Grocer 33 pricing gong. Although Morrisons achieved three more full baskets over the...
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Asda Prices to go Global
As Asda was crowned Britain's cheapest supermarket for a record-breaking 11th year running at The Grocer Gold Awards this week, The Grocer learned of plans by the Leeds-based supermarket to lower the price of branded goods still further by...
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Norman: stand up to regulatory fists
Former Asda chairman and Tory MP Archie Norman claimed the current breed of politicians and regulators are the most reactionary yet and retailers need to stay ahead of the tide of regulation. In a provocative speech at The Grocer Gold...