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this week a year ago The winner was...
The Waitrose store on Penn Road in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, won our Top Store award this time last year. Our mystery shopper reported that the store had phenomenally high levels of customer service.At the time, store...
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Bogof's week
News from the Labour Party Conference: as secretary of state for education Alan Johnson spoke at the Work Foundation's fringe event he revealed that it was 40 years to the day that he was sacked by Tesco. Amusingly his fellow speaker was Tesco's...
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Second opinion Following Morrisons' completion of the ex-Safeway conversion programme, will it realise its opportunities, asks Jack Sinclair
Investors were encouraged by last week's sales from Morrisons and the share price is now recovering.The transaction to acquire Safeway is finally paying dividends. The Morrisons business model is strong and unique. Applying it to the ex-Safeway...
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Letter of the week Dave Cheesewright, chief operating officer, Asda
I write in response to the letter 'Wal-Mart UK isn't working', which appeared in your publication last week (Letters, The Grocer, 16 September, p28). It is perhaps worth pointing out that since Asda became part of Wal-Mart in 1999 our...
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Star Buyer John Stokes
Stokes has been buying sauces and condiments for Waitrose for six years, having worked for the group for 11 years. Prior to taking on this role, he worked in a number of other areas, including confectionery and biscuits. The aspect of the...
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Price Survey
Tesco has failed to hold on to the crown of cheapest supermarket, after it broke Asda's five-week-long spell at the top last week. Asda's total of £49.04 was the cheapest of the six supermarkets in our survey this week. Tesco was second at...
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In Brief: Minimalist approach; South African launch; Asda sponsors; FirstCape launches
Minimalist approach Regional brewer Batemans has given its eight-strong bottled beer range a minimalist look to help consumer choice. The beers will have new labels, giving details of their flavour characteristics. The lighter...
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Wincanton awarded Somerfield contract
Logistics firm Wincanton has won a £900m contract to be the sole provider of logistics services for Somerfield.Wincanton already manages nine sites for Somerfield, but under the new contract, it will also manage the supermarket group's...
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Asda to build timber frame store
Asda has announced plans to build a timber frame store in Shaw, Oldham.Asda said that the 35,000 sq ft store, which is expected to open in February 2007, would also have a 'saw-tooth' roof designed to capture light and heat from the...
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Waitrose ready meals recalled
Waitrose has recalled two of its own-label Oriental ready meals due to incorrect allergen labelling information.The affected products are Waitrose Oriental Banquet for two with two starters and crispy duck, 1,215g and Waitrose Oriental...
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atul sodha Speciality food need not be the preserve of farm shops. Independents don't need to go far to find it says the boss of Londis in Harefield
Regional food, particularly speciality food, has long been thought of as the preserve of the farm shops. It wasn't until last year, when I got behind the British Food Fortnight campaign for the first time, that I realised that I, as a small...
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Sainsbury's hailed for seizing lead in health
Sainsbury's has snatched the moral high ground on healthy eating from its major rivals, analysts said this week. In a report on the retailer's medium-term prospects, Deutsche Bank analysts said that they believed recent public comments by...
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Waitrose Entertaining goes from strength to strength
Waitrose Entertaining is going from strength to strength, according to the retailer. Kate Greenslade, category buyer, Waitrose Entertaining, said sales at the catalogue service had been consistently good and were rising steadily. She...
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Rivals of no concern, says Waitrose boss
Waitrose managing director Steven Esom last week posted yet another impressive set of results as the supermarket continues to go from strength to strength. Total sales are up 11% to just short of £1.8bn for the half year, thanks to accelerated...
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All aboard the Tesco Express
Last week a new daily train service started running from Daventry in the Midlands to Grangemouth in Scotland. But though the 6.31am service was packed to the rafters and took a painful eight and a half hours to arrive, there wasn't a word of...
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Botulism fears prompt Lidl recall
Discounter Lidl has ordered a recall of a batch of Sunnyglade canned baked beans with pork sausages in tomato sauce after it emerged the contents could be undercooked, according to the Food Standards Agency. The FSA said an error in the...
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Tesco and Tyrrells in crisps spat
Tesco has agreed to stop selling Tyrrells crisps after the brand owner threatened to sue it, according to reports.Will Chase, the founder of Tyrrells, accused the retailer of selling the crisps even though he had asked it not to. He...
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Bogof's week
David Hasselhoff took time out of his busy schedule this week to pop into Asda HQ in Leeds in order to promote his autobiography. However, according to Bogof's spies, the king of cheesy US TV was less Hoff than Huff. Publicists had arranged...
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JS distances itself from 'tosser' rant
Jamie Oliver could have irrevocably soured his relationship with Sainsbury's by criticising parents who buy junk food, experts have warned.Oliver criticises parents in his new C4 show, Jamie's Return to School Dinners, saying: "Now is...