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UK tomatoes arrive at JS
Sainsbury has announced the first arrivals of British tomatoes in its stores.The Taste the Difference vine-ripened tomatoes are on sale, at £1.79, a week early due to recent mild temperatures.Tomato buyer Tristan Kitchener said: “Sainsbury...
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Positive PR and a pay-off
Steve Crabb offers guidance to employers keen to follow M& S’s Marks and Start initiativeMarks and Spencer may have had some ‘iffy’ financial results recently, but the company shows no signs of slowing up when it comes to...
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Press round-up…ex-Somerfield chief on the move
Former Somerfield chief executive Alan Smith could be in line to head up high street hardware chain Robert Dyas.The Financial Times reported that Change Capital, a private equity firm set up last year by Marks and Spencer chairman Luc...
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Sainsbury buys Bells Stores
Sainsbury has bought Bells Stores, the family-owned convenience chain with 54 outlets in the north east of England.The supermarket group will operate Bells Stores as a separate business unit under the current management team of Steven Bell...
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Top team changes at JS
Sainsbury has made internal management appointments as it replaces key executives.Penny Vegting is appointed brand and format development manager. She replaces Diana Hunter, senior project manager for future stores. Hunter left Sainsbury...
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Somerfield’s HR director will head up business unit
Katie Peters, Somerfield Group’s human resources director, is to replace Bill Williams as head of the Somerfield business unit.Peters, who is already a member of the group executive committee, will take up her new post on February 16, reporting...
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OS&G divi goes super
Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op is relaunching its dividend with the introduction of a superdividend card.Customers will no longer receive dividends as point of sale discounts but as points earned on the card. Shoppers earn points on the...
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E-pay terminals
Sainsbury has introduced electronic top-up terminals from E-pay at all its stores and petrol stations. Category manager Charlotte Alberry said: “The shift from scratchcard to electronic enables us to avoid extra costs from keeping cards in...
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Carlos says Sir Ken will succeed
Outgoing Safeway boss Carlos Criado-Perez gave a warm endorsement to Morrisons’ prospects of successfully integrating his company after the takeover. Speaking after shareholders overwhelmingly backed the deal, Safeway’s chief executive Carlos...
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Irish chain mark-ups spark call for probe
The three biggest Irish chains, Tesco, Dunnes and Superquinn, charge consumers up to three times what farmers are paid for some of their produce, according to a new survey. The study was carried out by the main opposition party Fine Gael, which...
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Sainsbury is set to roll out zone-based picking
Sainsbury is investing millions of pounds in rolling out a new instore picking strategy for its online business following successful trials in six stores.The retailer is moving to zone-based picking in an initiative that will see 2,500 staff...
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Sainsbury’s gain is a high street loss
While January is traditionally a quiet time of year, with trading patterns returning to normal, both Tesco and Asda are continuing to attract new shoppers according to ACNielsen’s Homescan Total Till information. Meanwhile, Sainsbury has seen a...
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Milk for our body clock
St Helen’s Farm is launching a branded cows’ milk which it says is an to aid sleep.Night Time Milk, which has secured a listing in Sainsbury, comes two years after Red Kite Farms launched Slumber Bedtime Milk, which is stocked by Waitrose....
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Mangoes in court
Asda is being prosecuted by Swindon Borough Council for allegedly misleading customers over the anti-cancer properties of its mangoes. The council instigated legal proceedings for breach of both the Food Labelling Regulations and the National Cancer...
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Tesco baby & toddler club the largest
from Sarah Baldock, manager, Tesco Baby & Toddler ClubSir; in your Focus on Infant Care (January 17, pp39-41), you made reference to a claim by Huggies to be the largest Mother & Baby club in the UK with 400,000 members.Tesco...
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Morrisons gets green light to move on Safeway
Shareholders at Morrisons and Safeway have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Bradford-based chain’s £3bn takeover of Safeway to become the UK’s fourth largest grocer.Executive chairman of Morrisons, Sir Kenneth Morrison, said: “This...
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Sainsbury to offer health checks
Shoppers at two Sainsbury’s stores in London can now have their health checked at the same time as buying their groceries. Sainsbury has teamed up with Bupa to offer its shoppers a range of health checks such as blood pressure and...
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Londis is worth far more than £40m
from Shamus Lehal, Wootton PO Londis, Wootton, BedsSir; In light of the recent offer to buy out Adminstore by Tesco for a reported £53.7m for 45 or so mainly leasehold stores, I think £40m is far too light a price to be selling Londis...
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JS puts flavour back into pork
Sainsbury is hoping to reinvigorate the British pork sector with the launch of a new range of premium products.The Taste the Difference range features 14 cuts produced from a new cross breed of pig exclusively for Sainsbury.Pork buyer Ben...
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Scotmid hits 76
Scotmid Co-op has boosted its presence in the Edinburgh area with the acquisition of eight former Alldays stores from the Co-operative Group.The deal takes its food retail estate to 76 stores, although overlap with its existing estate meant...