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NewsGrocery staples battered in savage supermarket wars
Fruit and veg sales down £450m as supermarket price war rages…
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NewsCo-op sells Portishead and Chatteris stores to Aldi
The Co-operative Group has sold a further two stores to Aldi as it continues the sell-off of its larger stores…
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NewsAldi sales growth slows down to 'only' 22%
The rampant growth of the discounters has been one of the defining stories of 2014…
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NewsFamily spending power up £11, says Asda
Family spending power is up this Christmas, following the biggest annual increase to discretionary income in almost five years, according to the Asda Income Tracker.
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NewsCrawshaw names Lidl UK's Noel Collett as CEO
Northern butchery chain Crawshaw Group has appointed former Lidl executive Noel Collett as its new CEO.
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NewsNinth Tesco employee suspended
A ninth person has been suspended as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation continues into the £263m black hole in Tesco’s accounts…
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NewsFuel prices fall again at the supermarkets
Supermarkets could be first to hit what the RAC predicts could be the lowest petrol prices in more than five years early in 2015. The motoring organisation believes petrol could soon be selling for under £1 a litre – a price last seen in late May 2009. Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons ...
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NewsAsda's Andy Clarke to take over IGD presidency in January
Asda chief executive Andy Clarke will step into Mars Chocolate UK and global retail president Fiona Dawson’s shoes as president of the IGD from the new year. Clarke, who has been vice-president of the food and grocery research and training charity for two years, will serve the same period as ...
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NewsTesco adds teams of little helpers to pack bags in the run-up to Christmas
Tesco is today created teams of dedicated bag packers at 400 of its stores to help ramp up service in the run up to Christmas.
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NewsForecourt retailers join Blakemore Trade Partners
A flood of recruits in recent months has fuelled expansion of Blakemore Trade Partners’ petrol forecourts.
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NewsPortas and MPs attack local authority action on high streets
The efforts of both national and local government to tackle the problems of town centres has come under strong attack from MPs and the former high street tsar today. The Communities and Local Government Select Committee claimed the National Planning Policy Framework was being mishandled by councils, with local planning ...
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NewsRussian troubles hit Metro's full-year figures
Christmas trading is picking up for retailing giant Metro Group after a slow start for its food and textile business in Germany, with Metro Cash and Carry and Media-Saturn showing record year-on-year growth in December.
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NewsEach of the big four supermarkets sees market share declines
The UK grocery market has returned to marginal growth as sales picked up driven by pre-Christmas price discounts, according to the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel.
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NewsSpar's Shop & Win campaign to return in January
Spar will add a new twist to its Shop & Win mobile promotional campaign early next year in nearly 2,000 UK stores because of the mechanism’s “phenomenal success” in August.
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NewsIceland to directly link price it pays for milk with farmgate prices
Iceland is to link the price it pays processors for milk directly to farmgate prices.
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NewsCommunity Shop opens social supermarket in south London
A group of leading supermarkets this week began selling their food at 70% discounts to feed the poor, in an initiative which could become a new model for tackling hunger across the UK
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NewsLondis to invest £2.3m in store development in 2015
Londis has invested £1m in retailer store developments in the past six months, the symbol group has revealed.
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NewsTesco launches home-pickling packs
Tesco is hoping to tap the pickling trend with a range of ‘Pickle Your Own’ boxes…
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NewsBlakemore Wholesale online ordering 'more interactive'
Blakemore Wholesale has revealed plans to launch an online ordering platform in February…
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NewsThomas Ridley eyes £70m in revenue following Elveden deal
Thomas Ridley Foodservice is eyeing revenue of £70m in the next five years…