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Jane picks up the glittering prize
The prestigious title of Sales Assistant of the Year 2001, organised by our sister publication Convenience Store has been won by Jane Thomas of the Spar store in Pennar, West Wales. Jane, 35, received her £2,000 prize from C-Store editor Sonia...
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Sainsbury and Asda angrily hit out at Tesco Best Value' cla
Asda and Sainsbury are both threatening to report Tesco to the Advertising Standards Authority over its claims to be the Best Value Supermarket'. Tesco is standing by claims made in its latest ad campaign that it is on average 8% cheaper than...
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Coin machines give shoppers the charitable option
Supermarket coin exchange service Coinstar has linked up with leading UK charities to give shoppers an option of donating loose change. A Coins that Count' service now allows customers at Asda, Sainsbury and Tesco to pay in money to causes...
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IGD workshops guide young managers through the big issues
IGD is to help 46 junior managers at Sainsbury to widen their horizons from the day to day running of the grocery industry through its Foundation Certificate in Management programme. Sainsbury has enrolled the delegates on the Manchester...
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New regional management team overhauls Budgens operations
Budgens has beefed up its operations team with the appointment of four executives, each of whom will take responsibility for running in the region of 14 stores. Former store manager and 26-year Budgens veteran David Lee takes responsibility for 14...
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Seeing red over a 9p carrier bag
The price of carrier bags was a sore point with our shoppers this week. Both Kwik Save and Lidl in Cardiff imposed a 3p charge for them and at Kwik Save our shopper was unable to obtain a free bag even for raw chicken. The biggest gripe ...
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Phenomenal success' of first CBC net auction
A major new procurement initiative from Nisa-Today's has demonstrated internet auctions are not only for the big boys. Nisa CBC members Londis, Budgens and Somerfield used their first web auction to procure four million cases of soft drinks on...
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When Iceland founder Malcolm Walker left the company he had
And he did, for about three months, before jumping straight back into the fray with a brand new frozen food venture, Cooltrader. "After leaving Iceland I had intended to retire but I felt the urge to get back into business," Walker says. "That...
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appleby westward
Spar trading chief blasts suppliers' poor service Companies supplying Spar's south west wholesaler Appleby Westward have come in for a roasting from trading director Nigel Taylor for their poor service levels. Speaking at the Spar Wessex Guild's...
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There's no more fat to trim' warns FDF as JS cuts £100m
If Sainsbury's £100m price cuts announced last week are trumped by retaliatory price slashing from the competition, suppliers will not be able to foot the bill, warned the Food and Drink Federation. A spokeswoman said: "If retailers are looking to...
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Stepping back into a cold war
Former Iceland founder and frozen food supremo Malcolm Walker thinks there's still plenty of life in the frozen food discounting business. So much so he's even come out of retirement to launch his brand new chain Cooltrader. However, things have...
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DEVON START FOR BIGGER STORE
The first of Safeway's brand new hypermarket formats is due to open in Plymstock, Devon, by mid-December. It will be followed by four more hypermarkets by next March said CEO Carlos Criado-Perez. He said the hypermarkets would be created by...
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Asda hits top gear for non food drive
Asda has launched an aggressive bid to boost non food sales with the introduction of 5,000 new home and leisure products. The new range of microwaves, DVDs and bikes has been sourced through Wal-Mart's global general merchandise supplier PREL,...
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Receivers fail to find buyer for Tinsley
Lincoln based Tinsley Foods has closed after receivers failed to find a buyer prepared to take it as a going concern. Receivers KPMG said they were surprised the business had attracted so little interest given major customers Marks and Spencer and...
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Women's union demands an apology for alarmist survey'
The Women's Food and Farming Union has demanded an apology from Tesco over its shopper survey on farming in Britain in 2001. Chairman Janet Godfrey said some of the questions were ambiguous and could cause concern among shoppers about food safety....