All Marks & Spencer articles – Page 61
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M&S rolls out RFID tags
Marks and Spencer has begun using radio frequency identification tagged metric trays for delivering produce to its stores to ensure customers “even fresher food”.The tags enable staff and suppliers to read pallet-load information upto six...
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M&S starts using RFID tags
Marks and Spencer this week started using radio frequency identification tagged metric trays for delivering produce to stores. The tags can cut the time taken to read a pallet-load by 80%, speeding short shelf life lines through the supply...
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Big ambitions for Simply Food
Anne Bruce Marks and Spencer wants to acquire "parcels of stores" to accelerate the roll out of the Simply Food small store format. It plans to open at least 100 Simply Food stores by 2005, as well as 40 sites on railway stations in...
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M&S unveils festive ads
Marks and Spencer today unwrapped its new christmas TV advertisement featuring eight celebrities including Denise Van Outen, David Beckham and Sean Bean.The ad aims to give a taste of the selection of christmas gifts and ideas available at...
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Tesco top for flowers
Judges have voted Tesco Fresh Flower Retailer of the Year at the 2002 Retail Industry Awards. Tesco was up against Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer for the award, which was sponsored by the Flower Council of Holland. The judging panel...
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Source tags eyed by Waitrose
Anne Bruce Waitrose has become the latest UK supermarket to develop source tagging capabilities as momentum builds behind the technology. Marks and Spencer, Safeway, Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury are also conducting analysis and trials of the...
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M&S Indian range is its biggest yet
Curry lovers will be able to indulge themselves with a wide range of new dishes at Marks and Spencer from next week. The retailer is taking advantage of National Curry Week to launch its biggest range of Indian foods yet. Marks and Spencer...
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And the winner is ...
The Grocer’s readers have voted Marks and Spencer chairman Luc Vandevelde as their personality of the year.Every September, readers vote for the person they think has shown clear leadership and achievement, and who, as a result, has made the...
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M&S sales continue to improve
Marks & Spencer said store ambience helped group like-for-like sales rise 10% in the second quarter, while consumer demand for quality products has seen its share of the food market grow.For the 12 weeks to September 28 like-for-like sales...
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M&S ambitious to grow organic
David Shapley Marks and Spencer is aiming to become the most trusted retailer of organic products in the UK and is undertaking a major range expansion beyond the current 22 lines of fruit, 25 vegetables and 29 salad items. Increasing consumer demand...
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M&S to test self-scan tills
Marks & Spencer will trial a new self-service checkout till over the next few months in three stores. The tills called SCOT (self checkout till) will allow customers to self-scan and bag their purchases and then pay with cash, debit or credit...
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M&S unveils new sites for Simply Food
Marks and Spencer is sticking with a larger format as it announces further sites for the expansion of its Simply Food convenience chain. It has sacrificed extended opening hours for increased turnover generated by square footage at a proposed...
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Barton's key trading role
Safeway has recruited one of Marks & Spencer's key former executives as commercial director for produce, meat and bakery. Peter Barton's position represents a new role within the multiple's trading division. As well as managing trading...
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M&S looks to SCOT to free up staff
M&S LOOKS TO SCOT TO FREE UP STAFFMarks & Spencer is to trial a series of new self-service tills allowing shoppers to checkout their own goods so they can avoid queuing to pay for their shopping.Known as SCOT – self checkout tills –...
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A case of the blues...which means NPD, and hands on fun
But retailer behaviour is also crucial. Glanbia supplies to most of the major multiples in the UK, including Asda, Safeway, Somerfield, Kwik Save, Iceland, Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Development work at its groundbreaking Malpas Centre of Cheese...
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NEWS BY ANYONE'S STANDARDSÂ
from John Maxwell-Jones, Burgess Stores, Goudhurst, Kent Sir; I was interested to read two news items in the latest edition of The Grocer (August 31) Â Marks and Spencer actively switching to free range eggs for its prepared meals and the story...
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M&S introduce new sportswear range
Marks and Spencer has unveiled its new range of sportswear that will be sold under the name View From in 125 of the retailers stores nationwide.M&S bought the brand from former Olympic athlete Brendan Foster in June. The product...
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M&S buyer calls for more
A leading retailer's fruit buyer is calling for increased production from UK growers. Speaking at an industry workshop Marks and Spencer fruit buyer Stuart Stubbins said English raspberry growers needed to grow more produce to meet demand. He...
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Asda has been voted the nation's favourite store for the sec
The ACNielsen Homescan survey of 6,630 households in May quizzed consumers about where they liked to shop and asked them to choose between Asda, the Co-operative Group, Kwik Save, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury,...
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WH Smith works with M&S for slicker food to go ops
Marks and Spencer and WH Smith have cut back on trials of M&S food to go at WHSmith branches to focus on making operations slicker.