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Net sales set todouble
A grocery retailer with sales exceeding those of Waitrose or Somerfield. That will be the size of the internet grocery market in the next five years as its value more than doubles, a new report seen exclusively by The Grocer reveals. The...
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'Buying power leads to better prices? I don't buy that argument' says King
Justin King insisted this week that Sainsbury's would remain competitive, despite a prediction that Tesco's growing buyer power would allow it to open a big price gap with its rival.Analysts at Citigate said it had calculated that...
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Esselunga denies Tesco talks
Italian supermarket group Esselunga has rubbished reports that it is in talks with Tesco over a possible takeover.Reports in the Italian press had suggested that Tesco was in talks to either buy or form a partnership with...
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Tesco dominates postcode areas
Tesco controls the grocery market in 67% of UK postcode areas, research has revealed.Data from retail consultancy CACI found that Tesco is the dominant supermarket in 81 of the 121 UK postcodes. It added that Tesco's local share was...
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M&S moves healthy ready meals into the mainstream
Marks and Spencer took healthy eating into the mainstream this week with the launch of a new range of healthy non-diet ready meals designed with government advice on consumption of calories, fat, sugar and salt in mind. Some 100 products...
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Asda plans pilots for wind turbines
Asda is submitting plans for its first UK wind turbines as part of an ongoing sustainability programme. The supermarket chain hopes to hand over plans to Falkirk Council, Scotland, by the end of the year in a bid to gain planning...
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Ocado's paper bag headache
A trial by online retailer Ocado to deliver groceries in paper bags has been plagued with problems, The Grocer understands. Delivery drivers have complained that the bags, which are made from recycled paper, are affected by the moisture...
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In Brief: New Co-op members; Scheme shortlisted; Nutrition group
New Co-op members More than 33,000 people have signed up to become members of The Co-operative Group since its relaunch six weeks ago. The group is owned by its approximately two million members. Scheme...
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Northern Foods comes out in favour of GDA labelling
Northern Foods is to nail its colours to the Guideline Daily Amounts mast. In an exclusive interview, CEO Pat O'Driscoll said the company believed GDAs, originally developed by Tesco, represented the best way for manufacturers to...
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€400m BWG management buyout set to be tied up soon
Managers at BWG, owner of the Spar and Mace franchises, are set to buy the company from its biggest shareholder, Electra Partners, in a deal that values the business at €400m. The management team, led by BWG chief executive Leo Crawford...
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Irish deny rethink over out-of-town
Irish planning authorities have denied that there is a change of policy on out-of-town retail developments, following another rebuff to market leader Tesco. The latest rejection torpedoed a proposed new food store, petrol station and...
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World News - 7th October 2006
Russia. Spar International has announced plans to open 100 new stores in central Russia by mid-2007. There are currently 67 supermarkets trading in the region under the Spar brand. Two different formats have been launched to meet...
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Availability
Asda Stockport, Greater Manchester. 0 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store on Warren Street in Stockport, Greater Manchester, found almost all the items he was looking for. The store stocked reduced-fat Brussels pâté, but not a...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Budgens, Sycamore Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Midlands Co-operative Society, Shelton Lock, Derbyshire, Costcutter, Gloucester Avenue, Northampton, Spar Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
The Tesco on Hurst Road in West Molesey, London, won our Top Store award this time last year for its superb customer service. At the time, store manager Kevin Reilly said the experience of opening the five-month-old store had been hard,...
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"Today's commercials feature Feta cheese and jingles about Omega-3. That's got to be a good thing, hasn't it?
A baptism of fire. That's one way to describe my first week on The Grocer. On GMTV (twice actually) to talk about Tesco's results. Meeting and greeting at the Gramias on Wednesday night, while celebrating the best in food and drinks...
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Take action over government organic threat
Your recent article stating that Asda was committed to extending its organic range, ('Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose', The Grocer, 23 September, p12) was further evidence that organics have at last become mainstream and shaken...
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Mason appeals to the empty nesters
It has taken Paul Mason a little more than six months as chief executive of Somerfield to be able to sit down and reveal to the press his master plan for the "confused business that was trying to be Tesco rather than itself". As part of...
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The little guys take on tesco
Our hand was forced. It was nothing personal. But they behaved so badly, we either got into line, accepted it and took a beating, or we stood up to them to make the point that they shouldn't be able to get away with things like this."...
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'Somerfield was a confused business'
Somerfield has pulled the plug on its Market Fresh and Essentials formats and wound up its franchising trials as its newly bedded-in management states its ambition to become the "local grocery store" of choice. It will also go all out to...