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Ireland, India... Tesco keeps up global pace
Tesco is set to make its presence felt in the whole of the Republic of Ireland. According to reports in the Irish press, it plans to open a store in Kilkenny - the only county where it does not have one. The news came as more...
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JS creates premium non food sub-brand
Sainsbury is creating a new premium non food sub-brand which it hopes will improve the appeal of its offer and ensure it hits its financial targets for the category. 'Designed for Sainsbury&' will sit across all categories...
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Pace and Malthurst opt for Spar brand
Two of the UK&'s biggest forecourt operators, Pace Petroleum and Malthurst, are set to widen a Spar store conversion programme after unveiling plans to ditch Budgens in favour of the symbol group at 22 Pace sites this...
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Free to grab shoppers in an irresistible way
Somerfield is raising its promotional game and has particular enthusiasm for the free-standing display unit's power in-store. Merchandised displays play an important part in optimising visibility for brands in-store. They often...
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Running your own store is a dream you won't regret
Mark richardson Budgens' Newent franchise owner says walking out of a safe job to set up a business is not for the fainthearted, but it offers rewards At the age of 37, with two children and a partner, working for MBL as a franchise...
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Bogof's week
To the Sainsbury trade briefing where head honcho Justin King was first up. The room was packed to the rafters with suppliers, but you could have heard a pin drop when the floor was thrown open to questions. Is Sainsbury keeping its...
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Are the multiples guilty of greenwash?
Tesco's £100m environment fund for developing sustainable technologies has been praised. But how green is it really, asks Simon Creasey. It's timing can't be faulted. On the same day that Tesco announced profits of...
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Special way to help troubled Welshmen
Asda is stressing its support for the hard-hit Welsh lamb sector with the launch of a premium range that puts farmers on pack and stresses quality and traceability. In the light of the closure of two major North Wales abattoirs,...
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Plea for co-ops to be freed up to compete
Britain's farming co-operatives need to be freed from the constraints of competition law to enable them to raise their game and become class acts like their counterparts abroad, according to a report from First Milk. The...
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"Suppliers watch out - Andy Bond has no intention of dropping Asda's combative price stance"
It's been a tough year for Asda's head honcho Andy Bond. What with those pesky members of the GMB union, widespread criticism over price-cutting tactics that saw £100m wiped off the value of the banana sector alone, suppliers unhappy over...
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"Once again, Tesco has raised the bar. It is in competition to catch up that the planet will benefit"
My morning ablutions were rudely interrupted, on Monday, by Stuart Rose, announcing on Radio 4 a dramatic new £200m eco-plan. I cut myself shaving as he reeled off some of the 100 exciting initiatives, including plans to go carbon neutral, use...
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"Brown has pledged retailers will not screw farmers with price cuts on meat. Perhaps retailers should do the same"
Sabotage, extortion, allotments. What an eventful week it's been. As The Grocer was going to press, Philip McHugh was due in court yesterday (Friday) charged with two counts of blackmail and bomb hoaxing against Tesco following the closure of 14...
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"If Morrisons has failed to act quickly enough, it won't have done itself any favours"
Just how many warnings does a retailer need? Morrisons could now face criminal prosecution for the Scottish E.coli outbreak. On the one hand, it's easy to sympathise. There's been a huge increase in the number of food scares in the past...
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"Asda's price for a single four-pint carton of milk was up to £1.34. That's a 34% increase on its controversial twofer"
I've been reading stories suggesting 'The End of Cheap Food' since, ooh, April, possibly earlier. Drought, floods, China, India, biofuel, all these and more were cited as reasons why wheat, milk, butter meat and other commodities were set to...
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"I scribble furiously. This is gold dust. The Wal-Mart subsidiary is secretive about its numbers. I could win a Pulitzer"
It's 8:30. Darren Blackhurst, the guitar-strumming food trading director at Asda, is making a gung-ho speech at a Christmas conference for Asda's 350 store managers . And up pops a powerpoint slide that is every journalist's wet dream....
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"Our food price inflation figures won't grab headlines but the story is no less interesting for that"
As of this week Somerfield will no longer feature in The Grocer 33. You can call it foresight, if you wish, as The Co-operative Group confirmed its interest, on Wednesday, in swallowing it whole, but in fact we took the decision for a very...
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Editors comment: Banking on Tesco to make its latest Big Idea work
With the Competition Commission unable to conclude its inquiry into the grocery supermarket industry, we’ve been kept waiting for Tesco’s next ‘Big Idea’, the masterstroke we’ve all come to expect that will see Tesco disappear away from the...
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Price Survey
Iceberg lettuce prices have plummeted at Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Waitrose and Somerfield this week but the order of our top six supermarkets has remained unchanged. Asda is still The Grocer 33&'s cheapest supermarket for...
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The Grocer 33: 2006 End of year annual review
Asda has been crowned the cheapest supermarket for the ninth year in a row. The retailer has once again dominated the pricing tables for the past 12 months and claimed The Grocer 33's lowest priced shopping basket for 30 of the past 50...