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Eco-friendly Midlands Co-op store rises up from the ashes
Midlands Co-operative Society has opened one of the UK's most eco-friendly stores on the site of a shop destroyed by a fire 15 months ago. The new 33,000 sq ft supermarket, in Oakham, Rutland, cost £4.5m to redevelop and its eco-features...
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Asda Hounslow now flagship ethnic store
Asda is overhauling a west London supermarket to create a flagship ethnic store. The new-look Hounslow store, which is opening this week, has been "recut" to meet the needs of the local Asian, Mediterranean, Polish and Afro-Caribbean...
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Ecover concentrates on improving sales
Struggling household brand Ecover is locking horns with Unilever and P&G with its debut concentrated laundry cleaner.The bio and non-bio concentrates (rsp: £5.69) have been on trial at Waitrose and Ocado for three months but will be...
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Cherry Valley wins listing at Tesco stores
Duck producer Cherry Valley has claimed a major victory in its bid to take a larger share of the retail market by winning a listing in Tesco.Cherry Valley, which was awarded Freedom Food status this month, has started supplying Grade A...
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Jimmy hits mainstream with premium sausages
TV star Jimmy Doherty has followed celebrity pal Jamie Oliver into the multiples with a new range of premium sausages.
The Jimmy’s Range branded classic pork sausages contain cracked black pepper and sea salt and have gone into 235 Tesco… -
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Apsinthion cut down to size to fit in Asda
A recent design overhaul has won absinthe brand Apsinthion national listings at Asda.The Toorank Distillery-owned absinthe arrived at Asda two weeks ago after the bottle was shortened and the label redesigned to look more authentic. It...
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NewsGrocer 33: Sainsbury’s enhanced by concessions
An impressive range of extra services and a near-full shopping basket won Sainsbury's in Castle Boulevard, Nottingham, the top store award this week.
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Bulletin: Fentimans booze row... no Rock bid for Tesco... fags 'worse than acid'
Lemonade shocks Americans; supermarket won't buy Georgie bank; life's pleasures to be banned?
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NewsTesco Bank to hire 1,000 in Newcastle
Tesco’s banking division is to create 1,000 jobs in Northern Rock’s heartland of Newcastle.
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Bulletin: Waitrose oil shame... Weetabix Welsh woe... French farm hand-out
Palm oil rankings embarrass supermarket; cereal maker obliterates island; Sarkozy gift for onion-growers
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A nice little earner: Becht rakes in £27m more than Sir Terry
Reckitt Benckiser boss Bart Becht earned almost £27m more than Tesco's Sir Terry Leahy last year. Becht was the highest-paid chief executive in the FTSE 100 in the 2008/2009 financial year, earning more than £35m in salary, bonuses,...
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Kent RDC is springboard for Morrisons expansion
Morrisons says its new regional distribution centre in Kent will be the "anchor point" of its strategy to go nationwide. At the opening of the RDC, Morrisons chief executive Marc Bolland said the facility would enable the retailer to...
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Northampton Tesco Express with no cashiers is 'the future'
With self-service-only tills, a new Tesco Express store, in Northampton, has been hailed as "the future" by the retailer.
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Tesco abandons Fresh’n’Lo for own-label Creamfields
Tesco has dropped Robert Wiseman’s Fresh’n’Lo and The One milk lines in favour of a new tertiary brand.
The supermarket has replaced all its Fresh’n’Lo and The One milk with an alternative 0.75% fat version under the Creamfields banner…. -
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Sainsbury’s sold alcohol to the underage
Sainsbury’s has been fined £15,000 and paid £29,832 in costs after being caught selling alcohol to kids at stores in Derbyshire by a test-purchasing operation.
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Amy’s Kitchen adds touch of India to soups
California-based convenience brand Amy's Kitchen is adding an Indian Dal soup to its Waitrose range.Indian Dal Curried Lentil soup is made from a mixture of organic lentils and beans flavoured with a mild blend of spices and herbs (rsp:...
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Grocer 33: Till assistant nudges Asda above Tesco
Two retailers boasted strong availability this week, but Asda's Maryhill branch in Glasgow pipped Tesco to the post thanks to its flawless service.
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NewsDoes Tesco’s new-look bogof signal the end of food waste?
Tesco's Buy One Get one Free Later promo generated plenty of headlines, but is it a serious bid to reduce food waste or just a PR stunt? Joanne Grew investigates
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Bulletin: Cadbury figures; VAT on food; Tesco shares up
Confectioner surprises with strong Q3; new tax could hit grocery; speculation buoys mults' share price
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NewsEditor's Comment: Sir Terry's latest role model must be Swampy
While Sir Terry Leahy's comments on "woefully low" education standards made front page news, his IGD speech reminded me of a secondhand car, polished up to look new.