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Tesco website advises young talent
Tesco has launched a new website to help attract 16 to 24-year-olds to a career in retail and to provide employees in full-time education with information and advice.The Debut website provides career advice and job opportunities for both...
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Tesco gears up ethnic with Asian and kosher
Tesco is introducing Asian and kosher aisles in selected stores.An Asian range of 250 lines, which includes bulk packets of rice, lentils and specialist chutneys, will be rolled out to 64 stores to coincide with Diwali at the end of this...
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£3.9m ice cream buy
Richmond Foods has scooped up Sheffield-based ice cream maker Oldfields in a £3.95m deal. Oldfields, which supplies own label to customers including Iceland, made a pre-tax profit of £300,000 on sales of £5.4m in the year to December 2002....
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Tesco invites supply bosses to gain store experience
Tesco has invited senior executives from its suppliers to spend a week working at its stores to gain first hand knowledge of its operations.Speaking to its top 150 suppliers gathered at Hoddesdon for the retailer’s annual supplier conference...
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Spar stores to try out touchscreen community kiosks
Spar plans to trial instore touchscreen ‘community’ kiosks enabling customers to access products, services, and discounts on admission to tourist attractions. The kiosks, from start-up company Touch-2-Save, will drive footfall and enable...
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Shayle joins Iceland to expand customer offer
Iceland has recruited Steph Shayle, Asda’s general manager for core non-food categories, to fill the newly created post of category manager of frozen prepared food.She will head an eight-strong buying team aiming to expand Iceland’s customer...
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A concept tested in its heartland
Further to The Grocer’s article about the launch of the new Waitrose concept in Bristol (The Grocer, August 23, p29), CACI has carried out a detailed assessment of the local potential for Waitrose in the first concept store.CACI’s analysis...
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Tesco grows its finest
The multiple’s logistics chief takes Liz Hamson round its new non-food depot and spells out the benefits to the supply chainCheeky Scouse bastard” is not a phrase you would expect to be used to describe a member of Tesco’s senior...
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M&S: best tomatoes are British
British tomatoes are monopolising the shelves of Marks & Spencer because the store believes the fruit to be the best there is, according to its salad specialist Jim Monaghan.Speaking at the Tomato Conference in Coventry, Monaghan explained...
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Back to the busy mum theme
Iceland has gone back to its roots with a new advertising campaign designed to drive home its credentials as the leading food shopping destination for busy mums.The ads, announced as Iceland unveiled positive like-for-like sales for the...
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Budgens slashes range in bid to sharpen its act
Budgens will slash its product range from 7,200 to 6,000 lines and reduce promotional activity by a third in a bid to solve logistical problems.Speaking at the chain’s annual supplier conference, Budgens chief executive Martin Hyson said...
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Morrisons: NI stores bullish
Northern Ireland’s independent retailers are confident they can withstand competition from Morrisons if it buys Safeway.Safeway has 12 superstores in the province. The Competition Commission says they represent 24% of the stores larger than...
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JS buoyed by cheap drinks
Sainsbury leaps two places to the top of the chart this week and is particularly strong on price promotions in the alcoholic drinks section with a wide range of wines and spirits on offer.Tesco, Morrisons and Asda all slip down the chart...
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Onpack brand ads launched by JS
Sainsbury is to launch advertising messages from brands on a range of own label fresh produce in a first for the industry. The initiative, which will be launched at the end of the month, means customers could pick up a pack of mince on which...
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Storewatch
Ranked from cheapest full basket downwardsTesco ExtraCrescent RoadWrexham£38.15Date of shopping trip: 20.02.04Time of trip: 10.01Time in store: 48 minsTime at checkout: 2 mins 30 secsPromotions:...
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Decisive and dependable
Visibility in decision making was one of the attributes most admired in our six best petfood buyers, as chosen by suppliers. Newly married Linda Whitaker, née Groves, at Morrisons was particularly singled out. In her varied retail career she has...
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Six of the best petfood buyers
>>nominated this monthbuyer, petcareasdaAlam worked for design agency Walker Pinfold Associates before going travelling in 1997. On his return he joined Asda as a healthcare and pharmacy trading assistant. He became a...
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And then there was one...
Could this one horse race emerge without a winner? Liz Hamson reportsThese are anxious times for Safeway. Chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez and his team should have been punching the air when the Competition Commission cleared...
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Waitrose in pole position for disposals
Waitrose is probably in with the best chance of picking up divested stores given the restrictions placed on the big three and the possible barriers facing Marks and Spencer.Before it can table a renewed bid, Morrisons must provide...
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The real console experts
Supermarkets are getting a grip on gaming in the wake of the success of PlayStation 2 and the rise of budget titlesAsda used to employ the services of 11-year old Wigan schoolboy Daniel Willis to advise it on the best computer and...