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NewsOcado to offer occasional free gifts to customers on checkout
Ocado is trialling a new home-shopping function that gives customers an occasional free gift…
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NewsSuppliers could be 'forced to talk' to Adjudicator
Lawyers warned suppliers this week that Groceries Code Adjudicator Christine Tacon could be forced to “drag” food company …
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NewsTesco to use Vines in St Valentine's social media campaign
Tesco has turned to online comedy for the first time as it ramps up its use of six-second Vine video content…
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NewsTesco makes Baldock blooming beautiful for Valentine's Day
The supermarket’s spectacle included huge animated rose buds, blooming 10 metres high and 40 metres wide across the Baldock shop building
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NewsFootfall levels up 1.5% for out-of-town stores, high street footfall decline slows
Rise ”reflects strong consumer confidence,” says BRC
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NewsKingsland to bottle New World wines for Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer has for the first time appointed a UK bottler for New World wine.
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NewsOcado executive team share in bumper £19.6m pay package
Ocado executives were awarded a bumper £19.6m pay package last year thanks to the online grocer’s share price gains.
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NewsTrevor Strain takes on more responsibilities as departure of Dalton Philips is moved up
Philips to depart on Monday as board continue search for full-time successor, Strain was formerly Morrisons CFO
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NewsPoundland share price slips as largest shareholder sells 14% stake for £142m
Poundland’s majority shareholder Warburg Pincus has netted £142m from the sale of almost half its remaining stake in the discount chain.
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NewsAsda to digitise store coupons... with a little help from Sir Terry Leahy
Program will be run by Sir Terry Leahy-backed company, aims to eliminate fraud and be more convenient
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NewsRouble devaluation hits Metro's first quarter earnings
German retail giant Metro experienced a 2.2% fall in reported group sales as the sharp drop in the value of the Russian rouble hit its first quarter trading.
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NewsTesco returns to growth as overall grocery sales rise
Tesco’s sales were back in the black for the first time in a year, according to the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, as the overall market grew at its fastest rate since last summer.
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NewsBestway renames Co-op pharmacies
Chain of 780 properties to be named Well Pharmacy, comes with further £200m investment in the company
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NewsFood sales record best month since February 2014, finds BRC-KPMG monitor
The raft of January price cuts across the supermarkets helped food sales record their best performance for a year, according to the BRC-KPMG retail sales monitor.
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NewsMedia Bites 9 February: Tesco, Rexam, Poundworld
The fallout from The Grocer Code Adjudicator’s decision to launch a formal investigation continued over the weekend.
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NewsOcado divides City opinion despite turning first profit
Few companies split opinion more in the grocery sector than Ocado…
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NewsTim Steiner: Ocado better-placed than Tesco to face deflation
Ocado is in a “much better position” to weather the storm of deflation and gross margin attrition than Tesco…
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NewsIs Google Express on its way to the UK?
Google could take its same-day delivery grocery “experiment” into other countries after strong customer feedback in the US…
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NewsOcado doubles marketing cash for Next Top Supplier winner
Ocado has doubled this year’s prize package for the winner of its second Dragons’ Den-style competition…
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NewsWaitrose strikes new fruit sourcing deal with Primafruit
Waitrose has signed an exclusive deal with fruit supplier Primafruit to manage the sourcing of all its imported fruit…