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New Tesco team tackles availability headaches
Julian Hunt Tesco has set up a new team to look at ways of improving availability in its stores. The team is believed to comprise executives drawn from across different business functions. Tesco is playing down the news. A spokesman for the...
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JS to help
more Welsh Sainsbury is looking for the next tranche of companies to join its supplier development programme in Wales. Trade development manager for Wales and the South West Rachael Turner said Sainsbury was targeting smaller companies. Under...
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Asda @t Home plans extras
Asda is exploring ways to utilise its home shopping delivery fleet to offer a mini backhauling exercise. Options being explored include a video or catalogue returns system. Asda @t Home head of trading Chris Hodgson said: "This is something for...
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SUMMER CRECHE FOR ASDA STAFF
Asda is experimenting with a summer holiday creche scheme for staff at its Ashton store in Manchester. Kids R Us @ Asda can cater for up to 32 children at a time at a cost of £10 a day each charged in half-day sessions of £5. An Asda ...
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Mixed mission stores a turn off for some traditional shopper
Helen Gregory Sainsbury lost some of its traditional customers from the new-style mixed mission' stores after they were alienated by the focus on convenience and chilled food. Chief executive Sir Peter Davis admitted that although these Central...
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Waitrose collects the top Brammy accolade
Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer battled it out at this year's Brammy Awards but Waitrose pipped them both to the title of best multiple retailer. The Brammys, which celebrates the contribution of retailers, manufacturers, caterers and the media to...
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Tesco welcomes planning proposals
Tesco has welcomed government changes to proposed planning rules which could speed up retailers' applications for building projects and cut development costs. Deputy pm John Prescott issued the White Paper, Modernising Company Law, in response to...
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Morrisons profits from multibuys, Coke emerges as a cereal k
Morrisons once again reclaims the number one spot in the fascia chart with 30% of the observed activity compared with 24% last week. The increased share has forced Asda down to second position. Morrisons now stands 11 percentage points ahead and...
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Safeway sharpens the UK spirits market with Spain's Larios g
Safeway is firing some competition into the spirits market, claiming to be the first major British retailer to stock Larios gin. The brand, Spain's biggest selling gin, joins the multiple's line up now in what the retailer describes as an...
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And where the rest fell down
Asda Date of shopping trip: 28.6.02 Time taken in store: 60 mins Time of shopping trip: 13.03 Time taken at checkout: 11 mins ...
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Blakemore buys Edwards C&C
Spar wholesaler AF Blakemore has boosted its presence in Wales with the acquisition of Bangor based cash and carry John Edwards. The deal comes hot on the heels of September's purchase of Newport-based I Mogford & Sons, taking Blakemore's C&C...
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Tesco is to open a standalone Express c-store in East Witter
Sainsbury is launching a car insurance product as it powers up its financial services to ward off competitors such as Tesco, Asda and Marks and Spencer. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee has criticised DEFRA management as incapable...
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Wharfside M&S
Eight years after turning down the opportunity to open at Canary Wharf, Marks and Spencer has signed up to take a 12,000 sq ft store at Jubilee Place, the 89,500 sq ft development under construction under the new Heron Quays building. Lunson...
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And where the rest fell down
Morrisons Date of shopping trip: 5.7.02 Time taken in store: 60 mins Time of shopping trip: 9.45 Time taken at checkout: 3 mins ...
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Alcoholic drinks refuses to budge as categories jostle for p
Asda jumps from third place to the top of the chart this week with a lead of six percentage points, forcing Morrisons into second place. Safeway has dropped one position to number three. Alcoholic drinks is the strongest category within Asda and...
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Spar's two strikes and out
It's not only in the multiple sector where compliance is a hot topic of debate. Communication and implementation are even more of a challenge in independent stores particularly when it comes to getting them to pass on promotional benefits to their...
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Cross-border television campaign to
drive internationality of Spar brand Elaine Watson Spar International has signed up top creative agency TBWA Hunt to develop a TV ad campaign spanning 12 countries in 10 languages. Launching in the autumn in countries from Ireland and South...
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And where the rest fell down
Somerfield Date of shopping trip: 21.6.02 Time taken in store: 33 minsHaslemere Time of shopping trip: 10.02 Time taken at checkout: 3 mins ...