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NewsAsda goes for Cornish Crystal spuds
Asda has introduced Cornish Crystal potatoes to its Extra Special range. The potatoes have a creamy, soft and tender flesh with a fluffy skin. Grown in Cornwall and supplied through QV Foods, they are harvested about two…
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Focus On Soft Drinks: Go green with do-it-yourself fizzy drinks
You could say 2010 was the second coming of SodaStream. The fizzy drinks machines, invented in 1903, saw a massive 536% sales increase on the back of distribution gains in Asda and Sainsbury's, secured following a major brand relaunch.
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NewsCollier’s takes to Twitter after Sainsbury’s axing
Collier's Powerful Welsh Cheddar hopes to mobilise shoppers to lobby more supermarkets into stocking the brand following its delisting by Sainsbury's last month. The Fayrefield Foods brand is using Facebook and Twitter to get consumers to...
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NewsClink launches online so indies get a taste of ‘buying like Tesco’
A new online wine buying club has launched that is designed to help independents, wine merchants and parts of the on-trade "buy like Tesco". The Clink Buying Club, part of London-based distributor Clink Wines, is free for users to...
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Focus On Wine & Champagne: Innovations
Waitrose this month started stocking Cienna Rosso (rsp: £9.99), a sparkling red wine with an abv of 7.5%. The cienna grape was created by crossing sumoll, from Spain, with cabernet sauvignon, resulting in a wine with a "creamy palate with plenty of acidity and juicy flavours".
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NewsTesco’s Price Check becomes ‘just the difference’
Tesco has cut back its promise to refund double the difference on products bought for less at Asda. The retailer will now refund only the difference, having claimed shoppers were misusing the promotion in a bid to make money.
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NewsTesco and M&S targeted in Thanet Earth workers’ protest
Protestors dressed as vegetables will descend on Tesco and Marks & Spencer tomorrow in a bid to draw attention to working conditions at Thanet Earth. Officials from Unite vowed to “take the fight to the top of the food chain” to bring attention to what it claimed were “sweatshop” conditions ...
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NewsTrashed Tesco at centre of Bristol riot
A Tesco Express in Bristol was left badly damaged over the bank holiday weekend as police clashed with protestors opposed to the new store.
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NewsHaldanes snaps up Midlands bakery Woodhead
Haldanes has swooped to buy Scarborough-based Woodhead Bakery in a move that will bring production of its freshly baked items in-house. The retail chain also adds 11 stores to its footprint after taking over Woodhead, a family-run business that had slipped into administration.
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NewsMorrisons and Waitrose join heavyweight campaign to beat fish discards
A heavyweight coalition comprising some of the UK's biggest retailers and seafood suppliers has come together to push for a more sustainable seafood supply chain. Retailer members of the Sustainable Seafood Coalition include Morrisons, The Co-operative Group, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.
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NewsMorrisons offers patriotic petrol with ‘Fuel Britannia’ stunt
Morrisons has knocked 6p off a litre of petrol or diesel for customers spending £40 or more at stores from this week until May 8. The Fuel Britannia deal would beat recent offers introduced by Sainsbury’s and The Co-operative Group, the retailer claimed.
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NewsClarke concedes ‘We must do better’ as Tesco falters in fourth quarter
Tesco has admitted it must do better in its home market after UK sales fell in the final three months of the year. Profits at the retail giant rose by more than 12% to a record £3.8bn in the year to 26 February. But Tesco again relied on its overseas business to drive much of the growth, with profits at its Asian business up 17%.
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NewsFamily fortunes dip again in March
Family spending power continued to decline last month, according to the Asda Income Tracker. The average family had discretionary income of £172 a week in March – down 5.6% on March 2010, or around £10 a week.
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NewsAsda toasts its ASA victory with jump in guarantee shoppers
The number of customers using Asda's notorious Price Guarantee has increased fivefold to several hundred thousand since its relaunch in January, it claims. In the week the ASA threw out a Sainsbury's complaint against the guarantee and...
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NewsWaitrose bullish in the face of website snags
Waitrose's director of e-commerce has revealed that despite a barrage of complaints about its relaunched website, it is to push ahead with extra features such as brand reviews and recommendations.
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NewsSainsbury’s switches sights to Paralympics
Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King tried his hand at sitting volleyball this week to mark the 500-day countdown to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The retailer, which is sponsoring the games, launched the One Million Kids Challenge to…
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Co-op signs depots to FareShare supply
The Co-operative Group has joined forces with food redistribution charity FareShare. The society joined up after completing a successful pilot with FareShare's North East operations from its distribution centre in Birtley, County...
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NewsCapper fits chiller doors to save energy
Capper & Co has become the latest Spar member to test the impact of installing doors on its in-store dairy chiller cabinets. If the trial at Cefn Glas, Bridgend, is successful, the doors could be installed in further company stores....
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NewsAsda switches its cod and haddock to line-caught
Asda is hoping to boost he amount of chilled cod and haddock it sells by 10% after switching to 100% line-caught fish despite hiking the price by 12%. Asda changed all of its 11 chilled cod and haddock lines across its 292 fish counters…
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NewsWaitrose to bring edible flowers to the salad aisle
They're usually associated with fine dining but Waitrose is hoping edible flowers and micro-leaves will appeal to adventurous home cooks as well. The supermarket has developed an eight-strong range of salad 'add-ons' with Bakkavör that...