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Nisa-Today's ripe for tie-up with Landmark?
A merger between Nisa-Today's and buying group Landmark is a distinct possibility following the collapse of the Nisa/Costcutter deal and the retirement of Nisa-Today's chairman Dudley Ramsden, according to wholesale trade sources. Calls...
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Price Survey
A change in country of origin has sparked a dramatic increase in the price of red seedless grapes this week. The average price of a 1kg punnet has risen by an average of 11.8% with Tesco sporting the most significant increase of the six other...
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JS brings in organic port for Christmas
Sainsbury's has joined the small list of retailers stocking an organic port that it believes will attract consumers to the category this Christmas. Fonseca Terra Prima Organic Reserve Port is made from organic grapes. Historically,...
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Wine awards slammed
Tesco has defended wine awards in the face of criticism from food and wine taster Martin Isark that they are nothing but meaningless, money-making schemes.Winemakers can pay up to £120 for entry to such competitions, knowing there is a...
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John Lewis plans expansion
John Lewis Partnership, the parent company of Waitrose, is planning to invest £350m in opening 10 new department stores.The retailer already operates 27 stores and last week announced plans to roll out a chain of exclusive in-store food...
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M&S food sales increase
Marks and Spencer has reported a 4.7% increase in second-quarter like-for-like food sales, and claims that its share of the food market has increased to 4%.Half-year group sales to 30 September rose 11% to £3.929bn on pre-tax profit up 32.2%...
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M&S results expected
Marks and Spencer is expected to report its half-year results tomorrow (Tuesday).Analysts have predicted that the retailer will record like-for-like sales of 3-5%, slightly down from 5.8% in the first quarter, but a pre-tax profit of...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedMace Hamilton Express, Cregagh Road, County Antrim, NI Nisa, Chapel House Drive, Newcastle-upon-Tynesainsbury's Local, South Ealing Road, Londonspar, Freehold Road, Ipswich, Suffolktesco...
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Availability
Asda Whitley Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne0 It was a perfect performance on product availability when our shopper visited the Asda store on Whitley Road in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The store was able to sell him every single item on...
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Price Survey
Morrisons has claimed the cheapest 33-item shopping basket for the third time since The Grocer 33's End of Year Report in June.The retailer, which is currently sporting promotional offers on six of the 33 items on our shopping list, rang...
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Supermarkets head down quantity street
Retailers are slashing prices on some of the biggest Christmas confectionery brands, a move that could herald the start of festive season price wars in the category.The deep discounting has been initiated by Tesco and Sainsbury's, which...
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The Big Picture
Prunella Scales helped make Tesco great - but now she has defected to the cause of the small shopkeeper.Scales, who played domineering mother Dotty in a series of TV adverts for Tesco that ran for nearly ten years from 1995, is...
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World News - 4th November 2006
South Korea. Samsung Corporation has announced plans to sell its 11% stake in Tesco's South Korean operation, Samsung Tesco. Samsung said it would sell off 5% in 2007 and the remaining 6% later as part of a bid to focus on its core...
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John Lewis, Waitrose to open foodhall chain
Waitrose and John Lewis are planning to roll out a chain of exclusive in-store foodhalls in John Lewis stores across the country in what they claim will be a unique format for the UK.Waitrose managing director Steven Esom said the...
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Giants jostling to gain wholefoods authority
Sainsbury's and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to set their focus on the lucrative but niche wholefoods category in a bid to cash in on ever-increasing demand for healthier lines.Waitrose is planning a new range in the sector after...
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Cooltrader plans push into south of England
Iceland-owned frozen food chain Cooltrader has revealed plans to open stores in north London as part of a major expansion for the retailer in the south of England.Currently, the chain's southernmost store is in Northampton - with most of...
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Reluctantly, I am impressed by Lidl
I have been watching the activities of the hard discounters - Aldi, Lidl and Netto - with mixed emotions. A few years back, catalysed by a friend who enthused over his spectacularly cheap purchase of extra virgin olive oil, I popped into...
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morrisons, swadlincote
Seeing the expectant crowd, parents telling children to be patient, journalists and photographers jostling for position, you might think you were at a Hollywood film premiere.
But the reason for the excited gathering in Swadlincote,… -
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In Brief: Buttercup petition; U-turn on hygiene; Wiseman will fight
Buttercup petition Tesco took delivery of a petition from Farmers for Action last week, calling for a milk price rise. It was presented by about 30 activists and a Jersey cow called Buttercup. U-turn on...
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M&S hits gas on Moto partnership
Marks and Spencer is to expand its partnership with Moto service stations across the UK as its Simply Food franchise continues to deliver sales uplifts. The expansion, described as a "brand new initiative", will kick off in early 2007...