Latest supermarket news – Page 340
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James Martin 'working three days a week' with struggling Asda
Martin said he had been impressed with the calibre and experience of Asda’s buying teams
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M&S’ like for like food sales slip as general merchandise sales plunge
Retailer continues to struggle in its clothing and home division, which saw like for like sales plunge 8.9%
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Media Bites 7 July: Supermarket shares, Danone, Boots
“Supermarkets slump as fears of price war grow”, is the headline in The Times (£) this morning.
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M&S given go-ahead to extend trial of freezing surplus food
The scheme allows food on use-by date to be frozen between store closure and midnight
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Sainsbury’s plays down impact of Brexit on Home Retail Group prospects
Brexit named as risk in deal prospectus, but Sainsbury’s confident can thrive in potentially ‘challenging’ environment
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Waitrose lists 2,000 own-label lines on British Corner Shop site
Supermarket strikes deal with online supermarket for British expats
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Euro 2016 exit bigger blow than Brexit says Tesco's Tarry
“For us it’s been business as usual since the vote” says chief product officer
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Tesco to pay above cost of production to new potato group
The Tesco Sustainable Farming Group – Potatoes, will launch in September
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Sainsbury's calls halt to Netto joint venture after two years
All 16 Netto stores are set to close next month
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Morrisons' Rathbones Wakefield bakery gutted by fire
West Yorkshire police said the fire was not being treated as suspicious
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Ocado suffers rollercoaster as Brexit vote hammers market
Ocado shares leapt by 8% to 226p on Tuesday after it announced a 15% jump in first-half sales to £584m
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Waitrose profits slump as John Lewis pension costs bite
Waitrose pre-tax profits slumped 17.4% last year as the supermarket slugged it out in a brutal price war with the big four and the discounters.
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Grocery Adjudicator says suppliers are 'signing away rights'
Christine Tacon has revealed she is launching a probe into how supermarkets are getting around GSCOP
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M&S moves £4m smoked mackerel contract to Dawnfresh
The switch follows a move by the retailer to sign up new seafood suppliers in June
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FDF calls for urgent talks with retailers on factory audits
Director general Ian Wright claims factory audits are placing an unreasonable burden on supplier
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Aldi CEO hits out at ASA for banning its Morrisons price comparison ad
Morrisons filed a complaint and the ASA agreed the ads were misleading
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Ocado claims Amazon Fresh launch has had ‘absolutely no impact’ on its business
Ocado continued to perform very strongly in the 69 postcodes where Amazon Fresh now operates, CEO Tim Steiner said
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Brexit: no immediate impact on grocery sales, say Kantar and Nielsen
Precedent suggests there won’t be a significant impact, experts say
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Grocery market goes into decline for first time in 2016
Sales were down 0.2% in the 12 weeks to 19 June, Kantar Worldpanel data shows
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Tesco like-for-like growth impresses investors
Two successive quarters of like-for-like growth at Tesco got investors on board as CEO Dave Lewis’ efforts to turn the supertanker around continued to show progress.