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Iceland: Grimsey pins hopes on home delivery
Home delivery will feature heavily in Iceland chief executive Bill Grimsey's future plans as he tries to turn around the company after a disastrous two weeks. This week the share price plunged again after a trading statement showing synergies...
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Diversification: Sainsbury hosts IT training at Calcot
Sainsbury's has opened up 3,000 square feet of previously redundant space at the back of its Calcot Savacentre in Reading to make space for a state of the art IT training facility for the local community. Sainsbury's new concept development manager...
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Costcutter with freehold for sale
The Costcutter store in Colne, Burnley, in Lancashire, has been the subject of a major refit. Weekly sales average more than £11,500 and are growing, says agent Dowling Kerr. Located in a well-populated area, the self-contained three-bedroom living...
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Channel Islands: Le Riche brings out Guernsey big gun
Channel Islands based food group Le Riche is stepping up its assault against Safeway with a new hypermarket in Guernsey under the Checkers fascia. At 52,000 sq ft, the store will dwarf other retailing outlets on the island. The opening is...
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Organics: Asda move sparks SA fury over escalating organic
The Soil Association has slammed Asda for cutting more organic prices. "We are extremely worried about what appears to be an escalating organic price war, currently led by Asda," said Soil Association director Patrick Holden. Asda cut prices by...
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SAFEWAY FINETUNES CAFE IDEA
Safeway has delayed the opening of its new supermarket café concept in High Wycombe until the end of March or beginning of April. The multiple hopes the concept due to be unveiled this month will set new standards by encouraging consumers to...
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Northern Ireland: Tesco exclusive Angus deal
Foyle Meats has launched a range of Northern Irish Quality Assured Aberdeen Angus beef in selected Tesco Northern Ireland stores. The launch has been backed by cookery roadshows organised by the MLC. Foyle Meats producer club is supplying the beef...
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He was a great boss
Sir; Your half page tribute to Safeway's former chairman Sir Alistair Grant (The Grocer, last week, p10) was spot on to say he was unique. I first met him as a Fine Fare management trainee at his' Bridge O'Dee, Aberdeen, superstore in 1970 and was...
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You have been warned
The food and drink industry has always served up verbal ammo for parliamentary hopefuls pressing flesh outside Tesco during an Election. Thus one of the early campaign features traditionally sees an army of would-be MPs plundering this magazine for...
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Badger's Glory
Badger has called its latest Tesco Beer Challenge winner Golden Glory Ale. It is hoping to repeat the success of Golden Champion, which topped the spring 1998 competition. Last year Badger's volume sales rose 54% and its volume shares of the premium...
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Profile: Malcolm Walker, Iceland
The ice man goeth Opinion is divided over Malcolm Walker's controversial shares sale, but he really shouldn't grumble at the furore says Julian Hunt Malcolm Walker has never made any secret of his dislike for those who work in the City. When we...
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AF Blakemore: JVCs key to expansion
Joint venture schemes enabling wholesalers and independents to share the cost of buying up new stores are a key part of AF Blakemore's expansion strategy, said the Spar wholesaler's retail director Elwyn Davies. "It's early days but we've bedded...
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Strawberries: Early UK berry bonanza
English strawberries grown under glass for the early market are becoming an increasingly important crop, and, judging by the investment, highly profitable, despite having to compete with imports. Humberside grower Nigel Walter, who counts Morrisons...
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Technology: Asda pledges £30m for super tills
Asda is investing £30m to introduce Wal-Mart technology aimed at providing a speedier checkout service. The technology includes state-of-the-art Telxons handheld scanners which will enable staff to scan through customers baskets while they queue....
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Sainsbury applies regional focus
One of the biggest changes to come out of Sainsbury's massive shake-up of its retail operation (see news) is the creation of the regional business manager role. The team of 25 district managers reporting to retail operations directors will be...
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Science not soundbites, please
It's been a bad week for organics. First came the Iceland bombshell, in which the freezer-chain-turned-innovative-supermarket-group admitted it had dropped a marketing clanger by going overboard with the concept during the last six months of 2000. ...
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My shop: Garvin Clemson, Southend Londis
An Essex man who joined his parents when they acquired a neighbourhood grocery business 34 years ago is still going strong and, in all that time, has been an avid reader of The Grocer. Garvin Clemson's parents purchased a 360 sq ft VG store in...
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Obituary: Sir Alistair Grant
Sir Alistair's legacy to grocery Clive Beddall The death of former Safeway chairman Sir Alistair Grant, at the relatively young age of 63, leaves the UK food and drink industry without one of its most charismatic visionaries. His death was not...
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Safeway plays safe with drugs
Safeway has teamed up with waste disposal experts Canon Hygiene in a Medicines Are Not Child's Playawareness campaign. Customers will be encouraged to return unused medicines to their local Safeway pharmacist, who in partnership with Cannon...
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The Grocer focus on: acting on impulse
Smart moves by atwo-man Mace team A "slicker, smarter operation" in 2001 is the aim of Mace retailers Tom & Gloria Williams based at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. "In a village store, we have to be service oriented," says Tom. "But it's no good...