All Discounters articles – Page 139
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In Brief: Ward joins Spar; New marketing chief; Skillsmart patrons; Strathmore shake-up
Ward joins Spar Martha Ward has joined Spar in the new role of sales development and implementation manager. She was previously retail support manager at high street retailer Robert Dyas and has also worked for discounter Aldi as an area manager....
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Lidl abandons foie gras trial
Lidl has abandoned an experiment selling foie gras in some of its UK stores.It said the decision to sell the delicacy, made with the livers of force-fed ducks, was based on customer requests. But less than a year on it has been...
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Proudfoot sells store at heart of Tesco voucher controversy
The owner of a North Yorkshire supermarket at the heart of a famous row with Tesco over predatory pricing is offloading the store to hard discounter Aldi.The Proudfoot Group said it was selling the 14,000 sq ft store in Withernsea...
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Somerfield triumphs over yobs - Q&A and Availability
Vandalism and the nearby opening of a Lidl store are just two of the challenges this Somerfield outlet in Plymstock, Devon, has faced on the road to winning this week's Top Store award. Our mystery shopper commended the 14,000 sq ft store for its...
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Aldi store goes underground to preserve local landscape
Aldi is set to score a design first when it opens what is believed to be the UK's first underground supermarket later this year.The Germany-based discount chain has lodged a planning application for the new store, which is to be located...
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Bogof's week - 14th April 2007
Tesco Tel reportedly 'stunned' the audience at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona by revealing that the stores he most admired were Aldi, Ikea and Starbucks. Well, what did everyone expect? He was hardly going to plump for Sainsbury and...
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Aldi's the chain that really does it for me, Leahy tells astonished audience
Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has revealed that discounter Aldi is the rival supermarket chain he admires most in the world.The revelation drew gasps of surprise from the 200-strong audience gathered at the inaugural World Retail...
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Relations turn very frosty
Iceland's advertising portrays it as such a friendly and caring place. It's where mums go, isn't it? That may be so, but suppliers felt anything but benign towards the retailer in December when the chain's holding company Icebox...
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Winter chill of discontent hits Iceland
Distribution workers are to put the freeze on deliveries to Iceland stores in London and the south east in the run up to Christmas. Drivers and warehouse staff based at the retailer's depot in Enfield plan a series of strikes after...
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Iceland depot strike begins
Strike action over pay has begun at an Iceland depot.Drivers and warehouse workers are taking industrial action after rejecting a 2.4% pay offer from their direct employer, DHL Exel which runs the warehouse.There are reports of...
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Deep discount goes from drab to fab
It's been a long time coming. After years of targeting the low end of the market with the cheapest offers in the most basic stores, Aldi, Lidl and Netto are setting their sights on more well-heeled customers. Aldi will open its first...
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Cooltrader plans push into south of England
Iceland-owned frozen food chain Cooltrader has revealed plans to open stores in north London as part of a major expansion for the retailer in the south of England.Currently, the chain's southernmost store is in Northampton - with most of...
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Reluctantly, I am impressed by Lidl
I have been watching the activities of the hard discounters - Aldi, Lidl and Netto - with mixed emotions. A few years back, catalysed by a friend who enthused over his spectacularly cheap purchase of extra virgin olive oil, I popped into...
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Aldi launches own Fairtrade tea bags
Aldi has launched a Fairtrade tea, a move believed to mark the first foray by a British discount grocer into the fair trade products arena. ‘Diplomat’ own-brand tea bags are licensed by the Fairtrade Foundation and were launched as part…
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Iceland's comeback kid
On the bookshelf in Malcolm Walker's otherwise unremarkable office at Iceland Foods HQ in Deeside, north Wales, sits a title oddly out of place among the grocery-related tomes. George IV: A Life in Caricature, lampoons the larger-than-life king...
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Leeds Co-operative appoints food boss
Mark Yeo is set to replace Alan Godfrey as the general manager of Leeds Co-operative's food division.He joins the society from his position of stores manager at Iceland Foods and will now take responsibility for Leeds Co-operative's 21...
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Botulism fears prompt Lidl recall
Discounter Lidl has ordered a recall of a batch of Sunnyglade canned baked beans with pork sausages in tomato sauce after it emerged the contents could be undercooked, according to the Food Standards Agency. The FSA said an error in the...
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as nature intended
Iceland boss Malcolm Walker's influence in the retail industry apparently doesn't stretch as far as his daughter. Caroline Walker, managing director of As Nature Intended, is proud to say that she's done things her way,...
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Lidl to sell cheap flights
Discount retailer Lidl is to sell-cut price flights alongside its usual grocery offer.
Next week, in conjunction with budget German airline Air Berlin, customers will be able to save up to £100 on a return flight to 25 European…