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In Brief: Bigger in UK beer; The Nun's clothes; Red nose in winter
Bigger in UK beer UK craft brewer Freeminer is preparing for a bigger role in UK beer next year with an investment that doubles its capacity. The brewery supplies the Co-operative Group with its Gold Miner and Honey Ale beers, as...
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The Co-op bares its soul
Below cost selling, price flexing and applying restrictive covenants to land. Typical of Tesco? Asda? Sainsbury's? No - it's the Co-operative Group. The society, which prides itself on its ethical approach to business, this week published...
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Toaster buyers get change from fiver as Asda extends its non food pricing lead
Asda has extended its lead over Tesco in the fight to be the UK's cheapest supermarket for non food items. The Grocer 33's latest non food report reveals that at £177.62, the cost of Tesco's 33-item shopping basket including clothes is...
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New electric vans to deliver Tesco goods
Tesco home-shoppers can expect deliveries by a new concept electric van next year after the chain bought 15 of the environmentally friendly vehicles for its dotcom service. The vans do not emit CO2 and are powered by a battery that can...
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'We have best quality, best value of big four'
Sainsbury's boss Justin King was in a bullish mood this week as he boasted that the supermarket was strongest placed of all the big four to capitalise on future growth. King also claimed the latest advertising campaigns from its rivals...
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Tesco to make a splash with beauty launch
Tesco is embarking on its biggest ever beauty product launch next February after recruiting celebrated experts to help it create 180 new products. Gardening expert Rachel de Thame and A Place in The Sun presenter Jasmine Harman are among...
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United, Leeds next in run of Co-op mergers
Consolidation of the co-operative movement continued this week, with United Co-operatives and Leeds Co-operative Society set to merge. Leeds' members will vote on the tie-up at a meeting on 11 December. If two thirds vote in favour, a...
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An immediate exit for Taylor from MBL helm
Mike Taylor, managing director of Musgrave Budgens Londis (MBL), resigned with immediate effect on 13 November to "seek out new business opportunities elsewhere". Taylor was MBL commercial director before becoming managing director in...
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Q&A with Chris Rowsby Manager of the Week
How long have you worked at Sainsbury's? I have worked for Sainsbury's for nearly 18 years. I was attracted by the promise of a fast paced environment and the opportunity to work with people and help with their career development. I...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
The past 12 months have been "business as usual" for Chris Blows, manager of Waitrose's mammoth Food and Home store in Salisbury. However, he has also been busy implementing a number of new company processes to better regulate stock control,...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Total Bonjour, Surbiton, Surrey. Nisa, Woodford, Manchester. Midlands Co-op Measham, Derbyshire. Londis Surbiton, Surrey. Tesco Express, Clifton, Bristol. How they performed. Our...
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Availability
Asda Stanley Grove, Manchester. 0 Own label long grain rice was not being sold at this store due to the GM rice scare, though it did provide all other items on our list. The store also performed admirably in terms of customer...
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How to win new shoppers and please your customers
With Stuart Rose saying Marks and Spencer is now focusing on what the customer wants, this year's great performance indicates M&S has understood that the expectations of its customers have changed and it has responded accordingly. Our...
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Morrisons bows to the inevitable
Morrisons is tiptoeing into the 21st century. The retailer with the famously rudimentary supply chain has announced a plan to shed its supplier-unfriendly image by combining the best of Safeway's and Morrisons' supply chain operations. "We've...
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"If you pop into Tesco in Hungary, you can find strawberries piled up in pyramids. You'll never find those here"
I've got to admit I have a certain amount of sympathy with Ben Bradshaw's call to cut food and drink packaging. If it's not thick plastic wrapped around my broccoli, or pre-wrapped bananas, it's packets of tea with individually wrapped sachets....
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Price Survey
The retail cost of red seedless grapes has remained largely stable this week following the rise of 11.8% seen in last week's report. The only retailer to have increased the price of its 1kg punnet was Waitrose, which over the past seven...
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JS drive to use Nectar better
Sainsbury's plans to place its Nectar loyalty card at the centre of its marketing in a bid to use the data to understand its shoppers better. It will "significantly improve the exploitation of Nectar", it said in a job advert for a number...
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Tesco backing trend of reduced alcohol drinks
Tesco is the latest supermarket to put its weight behind the emerging consumer trend for lower alcoholic products. The retailer said its latest sales data showed an increasing number of British drinkers were turning away from strong wines...