Channels news – Page 721
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NewsWaitrose trials 'Pick Your Own Offers' using myWaitrose card
The ‘Pick Your Own Offers’ scheme, which is currently being trialled at five Waitrose stores, will give shoppers armed with a myWaitrose card a long list of branded and own-label products to select their favourite from
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NewsWalker halts Iceland growth to focus on The Food Warehouse
The frozen food retailer has earmarked The Food Warehouse format for future “aggressive” rollout and has signalled its commitment by appointing Richard Walker
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NewsMedia bites 8 May: Morrisons, SABMiller, Ocado
The new chief executive of Wm Morrison has pledged to listen to the supermarket chain’s customers and staff
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NewsAldi chicken with hock burn sparks Twitter storm
Nicola Cooper took to Twitter after finding the damaged bird on the shelves of Aldi’s Carterton store
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NewsSpirits sales 'could add £280m to convenience category'
Spirits currently account for 21% (£1.1bn) of all alcohol sales in convenience, versus 26.6% (£2.7bn) in grocery
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NewsIrwin's bakes up Tesco deal
Irwin’s will supply more than a million packs of Joeys to Tesco annually and the listing of the two lines increase the Co Armagh bakery’s annual business with Tesco by 10%
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NewsEat 17 forms new partnership with AF Blakemore
EAT 17 has two joint Spar convenience retail and restaurant sites in Walthamstow and Hackney
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NewsMorrisons results show Q1 decline
Other headlines include a 50,000 sq ft reduction of selling space
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NewsCity Snapshot: Morrisons sales fall 2.9% in first quarter
Morrisons like-for-like sales fall of 2.9% beat expectations of a 3-3.5% drop, but its shares have opened down. Also Reckitt Benkiser prepares for AGM, the market reacts to Sainsbury’s full-year results and all the rest of the news from the City.
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NewsBonativo almost doubles suppliers in first three months of UK business
The service started off with 535 products and 53 producers and now offers consumers 930 products from 98 producers
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NewsWaitrose and the discounters are only winners in new market share data
A slowdown from the rest of the trade saw sales growth in the overall grocery retail sector slow to just 0.2% compared with the same period last year
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Poundland to push ahead with 99p Stores takeover
Poundland has decided to press on with its attempt to acquire rival discount chain 99p Stores and go to a more in-depth investigation process by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.
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NewsSainsbury's posts first loss in a decade
The retailer fell to a pre-tax loss of £72m in the year to 14 March 2015, versus profit of £898m the year before
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NewsMedia bites 6 May: Sainsbury's, Tesco, M&S
sainsThe media examines Sainsbury’s first annual loss for a decade and the latest board departures at Tesco.
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NewsCity snapshot: Sainsbury's falls to first loss in a decade
Sainsbury’s (SBRY) has recorded its first annual loss in a decade after property writedowns and other one-off charges took their toll. Plus Poundland presses ahead with 99p Stores bid, Finsbury Food Group acquires Johnstone’s Just Desserts and all the latest from the City.
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NewsMetro Group’s sales rise 2.5% in second quarter but losses widen
German supermarket Metro Group has reported growing sales in its second quarter, but the negative impact of currency movement helped its losses expand to €394m during the period.
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NewsAldi and Lidl new store push dwarfs big four's plans
Discounters Aldi and Lidl are completely dominating the race for new supermarket space in the UK
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NewsCity snapshot: Tesco knocks back £4bn approach for South Korean arm
Tesco has knocked back a £4bn for its South Korean business, according to weekend reports.
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NewsStore-specific planogram to help Sainsbury's tailor shelves
The new system would factor in each store’s equipment, space and sales to create tailored planograms so there was more space for the products customers wanted