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Safeway’s commercial boss departs for M&S
Safeway’s commercial director Ian Mumby has left to become head of IT and supply chain for Marks and Spencer’s food division. Mumby has worked for Safeway for six years. His other positions included director of supply strategy and director...
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Tesco expands in Republic of Ireland
Tesco is to open six new supermarkets creating 1,500 jobs in a £66m expansion of operations in the Republic of Ireland.The group will open six new stores, replace three existing ones and build a new distribution centre in Dublin. Of...
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New HR director at M&S
Marks and Spencer has appointed Jean Tomlin as its new director of human resources with effect from March 17.Tomlin, who has been the human resource and development director at Corporate Service Group since 2002, will report directly to M&S...
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Headsets help M&S service
Marks and Spencer is testing wireless headsets at Marble Arch and Gateshead Metro Centre stores to improve customer service.The communications system, manufactured by Quail Digital, is used by checkout and customer service...
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Game of consequences
Sainsbury knows this is the last chance saloon. Asda is desperate not to let Safeway slip through its fingers, while Tesco can’t afford to let either of them get their hands on it. Sir Ken Morrison, meanwhile, looks set to laugh all the way to the...
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Tesco's stock-out crisis revealed
Ready meals is one of the growth sectors in frozen food, being a destination for family shoppers but more impulse driven for a single customers. Promotions are important across the board.Availability is therefore of utmost importance. Research...
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Miller will head up Spar trading
Spar UK has recruited Booker's trading director Peter Miller to fill the newly-created post of group trading director. Miller will take responsibility for all Spar's trading activities and divisions and will report directly to Spar UK managing...
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If you don't like it, you'd better shout
We have said all along that the country's biggest retailer would not stand idly by while its two main rivals fought for Safeway in what is now recognised as being the last big deal in British grocery. Like every commentator, we assumed Tesco would...
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Indian food turns fast
Two former Marks and Spencer buyers will open their first Indian fast food outlet, in Wardour Street, London, on Monday (January 27). The new 700 sq ft shop will have a tandoori oven to bake fresh naan bread and offer a range of more than 100...
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First it was Morrisons, then Sainsbury's and now we have Asd
For many commentators, this move was an inevitable extension of a well-documented trend. Consolidation, improvements in supply chain efficiencies and impressive advances in retailing have given rise to power shifting down the food chain. We now...
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Tesco stock crisis shown
A fifth of frozen ready meals on promotion at Tesco have availability issues while 14% of non-promotional stock is at risk of being out of stock, according to The Grocer's first StockWatch category survey launching this week. The survey, which...
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I was floored by the Twist
Tesco group human resources director Clare Chapman was amazed by the range of questions she had to field during a stint on the shop floor. She explains how the TWIST scheme is revolutionising customer service I was standing nervously behind the...
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Leahy: bid not a spoiling tactic
Siân Harrington Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy was this week adamant his prospective bid for Safeway was a serious offer and not a spoiling tactic. Leahy told The Grocer he understood the market's incredulity at the news Tesco had filed a...
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Simply Food goes to Ireland
Marks and Spencer will take Simply Food to Ireland this year as it presses on with aggressive expansion plans for its food-only format. The first Simply Food in the Irish Republic is scheduled to open in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, in October, with...
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Game of consequences
How will the smaller players be hit by the fallout from the battle for Safeway asks Elaine Watson Sainsbury knows this is the last chance saloon. Asda is desperate not to let Safeway slip through its fingers, while Tesco can't afford to let...
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Spar bags deal to supply Stars News c-stores...
John Wood Spar has topped last week's 56-store win ( Right Choice deal swells Spar', The Grocer, January 18, p6) with a deal to supply 63 c-stores in the Wolverhampton-based Stars News chain. Spar's biggest wholesaler AF Blakemore has signed...
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Confused? Don’t be...
The Grocer is organising a seminar to help everybody in the trade get to grips with the wider implications of the increasingly complex Safeway auction process. Speakers confirmed so far include former Somerfield boss and Littlewoods chairman...
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Asda payout for injured shopper
An Asda customer has been awarded £500,000 damages after slipping on a mushroom in its Hatfield store in July 1997.Asda said in a statement: "We are sorry about the circumstances that led to Mrs Jackson's injury. We have taken every...
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Safeway tells shareholders to hang on
Safeway has withdrawn its recommendation of Morrisons all-share offer for its supermarkets and advised shareholders “to await developments”.Morrisons agreed to buy Safeway on January 9 which valued its rival at £2.9bn. Morrisons stocks have...
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Tesco to tussle for Safeway
Tesco has entered the battle for control of supermarket chain Safeway and said it is making a submission to the Office of Fair Trading in relation to a possible bid.Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy said: “We have always understood that competition...