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Employee relations: Stress? Not a problem among our staff sa
Leading supermarkets have defended their record on creating a stress free workplace after a report by the Health and Safety Executive blamed poor management for widespread stress among staff in the UK's shops, factories and offices. Sainsbury,...
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Bread: Price of Hovis hiked up by 5p-9p
British Bakeries has fired the first salvo in the fight to raise bread prices with a price hike on 800g Hovis wholemeal. According to The Grocer 33 shopping survey, the price rose between 5p and 9p to 54p in most multiples, except for Asda and...
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The Grocer Focus on frozen food
STOCK OUTS: NOT ON SAYS SAFEWAY Working with frozen foods is always difficult but Safeway is taking a zero tolerance attitude to out of stocks says Sheila Eggleston Three little words that strike fear into any multiple's logistics department ...
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Asda: introducing the comedy store
Asda has placed an ad in The Stage magazine looking for 100 budding actors to provide instore entertainment for customers as they shop. Prospective greeters will be expected to "keep the instore atmosphere buzzing with a variety performance of...
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National Vegetarian Week: A week for the veggies
The Co-operative Group and Tesco are marking National Vegetarian Week (June 25-July 1) with a series of instore initiatives and promotions. The event is organised by the Vegetarian Society, which is also launching an awards ceremony to recognise...
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Mr Oliver dresses down for Sainsbury
Sainsbury has been celebrating the improvement of its store in Rustington in West Sussex by sending the locals a manifesto style leaflet which features a grinning Mr Jamie Oliver. But this is odd. The two Naked Chef books portray him as a hunk, a...
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Multiples: Waitrose puts puts faces to fruit on PoS
Waitrose is featuring its English growers in store for the first time on point of sale material to emphasise quality, seasonality and the close relationship which they have built up. Strawberry producers Harry Hall of Hall Hunter, Wokingham, and...
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Great to be back on the box
Sir; I find the letter from J Richardson about Spar's £2m advertising campaign with the heading No need to advertise' (The Grocer, June 16, p19) an astonishing statement. Marketing to our customer must be through a mix of formats. With the recent...
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Channel Islands Wholesale Group: Sailing for Guernsey
Jersey based Spar wholesaler Channel Islands Wholesale Group is heading to Guernsey this year. Discussions are now underway to set up a distribution facility on the island, said group MD Nigel Robson. "Initially, goods will be shipped over from...
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Morrisons: First of seven stores opened
Morrisons opened the first of seven stores planned for 2001 in Jarrow, near Newcastle this week. The new 70,000 sq ft store carries over 20,000 product lines and extends Morrisons market street concept - a collection of individual in-store fresh...
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Exotics: Mania for mangoes
Sainsbury and Safeway have already given their support to a Mango Week from August 17-27 to coincide with the peak arrivals from Puerto Rico and Israel. Sant Mehta, chairman of the UK's largest supplier Minor Weir & Willis, aims to create an...
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Germany: Spar seeks radical solutions for the climb back to
The new boss of Spar's loss making German operation has announced a radical restructuring of the business to return the group to profitability by the end of the year. Fritz Ammann said the group will focus on the company owned Eurospar estate, the...
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Haiti at Waitrose
A Haitian liqueur is beginning to make inroads in the UK off-trade. Toussaint Dry coffee liqueur first became available in leading London on-trade accounts and its UK agent InSpirit has now negotiated a listing for it in 54 Waitrose outlets. The...
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Ireland: Tesco accuses union of jumping gun as store staff v
Tesco Ireland is bracing itself for strike action on June 29 and July 5 after a ballot by unions found 93% in favour of industrial action over low pay. A spokesman from Mandate, which represents over 9,000 of Tesco's 9,500 staff, said further...
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Far East: Tesco links with GE for Thai credit card launch
Tesco is teaming up with the Thai division of US giant General Electric to launch a credit card for shoppers in Thailand this summer. Tesco and GE Capital, General Electric's financial arm, will form a £32m joint venture company to set up and...
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Crime: Staff must be trained to restrain people properly'
Training staff to tackle violence instore is dangerously low on the priority list for most retailers, warned former hostage negotiator and Safeway external consultant Mark Dawes. Speaking at a retail crime conference hosted by Reliance Security…
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Wal-Mart in the UK: Two years on: happy days
The Grocer had long predicted it, but Wal-Mart's dramatic arrival on the UK scene, scuppering a bid from Kingfisher to seize Asda, astounded many industry leaders and commentators. The entire grocery sector braced itself for the Wal-Mart effect'....
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Wal-Mart in the UK: The price is right
Andrew Czarnowski examines the effect EDLP has had on Asda's relentless growth in market share Asda's story has much of the blockbuster novel to it. Founded by grounded Yorkshire farmers, once dancing on the brink of bankruptcy, re-incarnated as...
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National Grocers' Benevolent Fund: NGBF must meet needs of m
The National Grocers' Benevolent Fund is planning to relaunch itself as an organisation that is more in tune with the needs of today's fmcg industry. Robin Whitbread, the new president of the trade charity and Sainsbury's retail director, said a...
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Trading hours: Middleditch gunning for LibDem's Sunday move
Spar MD Morton Middleditch has vowed to fight proposals to liberalise Sunday trading legislation by LibDem peer Lord Clement-Jones. The former Kingfisher director is asking retailers for cash to fund a campaign to scrap the six-hour Sunday trading...