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Steve's touch for the locals
A new specialist meat counter, a partnership between a local butcher and multiple retailer, has been launched. Sainsbury and West Country-based master butcher Steve Turton are now offering customers to the retailer's Torquay and Exeter stores the...
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Alan Dardis
Pet care buyer, Safeway Recent brand relaunches in the dry market have encouraged consumers to switch brands to try new products. Innovation has been centred on health claims for dry products and they have led a trend out of wet food into dry or...
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Cornish showcase
Waitrose and the Taste Of Cornwall have unveiled plans to build a shared shopping complex to showcase Cornish food and drink. The proposed 50,000 sq ft Cornish Food Hall will be built near Falmouth and the floorspace will be split 50-50 between a...
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Store location
Ranked in order of cheapest full basket Asda Cramlington, Tyne & Wear £39.09 Date of shopping trip: 11.07.03 Time of trip: 09.47 Time ...
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Tesco's refurbishment of its Catford store in south-east Lon
Tesco states that the store refurbishment incorporates an improved fresh food and non-food offer as well as general improvements to the facilities and the shopping experience. These improvements are likely to result in the store attaining the...
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Chiefs: no GM appetite
Bosses at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Safeway have told the government that there is no real appetite for putting GM foods back on the shelves. In a meeting held at DEFRA on Wednesday, chief executives at the top four multiples told DEFRA secretary...
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Congested Asda pulls basket down
Asda has checked in the cheapest full basket so far for The Grocer 33's new look shopping list at £39.09. The chain provided two of this week's five full baskets while Sainsbury took the Storewatch title for its customer service. A better deal on...
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Sainsbury's customers can now use the internet to trace all
It has extended the scheme across all UK organic produce and some imports following the success of a 10-month trial on organic potatoes. Other fresh organic products including meat and dairy will be added in the future. Farmers taking part provide...
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Shawe takes a seat as IGD chair
Jan Shawe, Sainsbury's director of corporate relations, will be the new chair of the IGD board of directors. The appointment will take effect from September 30 when she will take over from Rob Knight from Dairy Farmers of Britain who has been IGD's...
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Haulier alliance targets retailers
Hauliers across the UK have clubbed together to form a national distribution network that aims to compete with major third party logistics operators by pooling the resources of 28 regional firms. LinQ Alliance brings together 28 hauliers operating...
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Shawe takes a seat as IGD chair
Jan Shawe, Sainsbury's director of corporate relations, will be the new chair of the IGD board of directors. The appointment will take effect from September 30 when she will take over from Rob Knight from Dairy Farmers of Britain who has been IGD's...
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House that Tesco built
It's not just mortgages that shoppers can buy from the supermarket multiples these days. They can also buy homes. The last few months have seen a rash of residential development from the supermarkets as they try to sweeten their planning...
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Cornish showcase
Waitrose and the Taste Of Cornwall have unveiled plans to build a shared shopping complex to showcase Cornish food and drink. The proposed 50,000 sq ft Cornish Food Hall will be built near Falmouth and the floorspace will be split 50-50 between...
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A Yiddish word for it
Suppliers often complain about supermarkets squeezing them for cash, but now City analysts have found themselves at the receiving end, courtesy of Tesco. An outraged note from Seymour Pierce says Tesco wanted a "contribution" per analyst to...
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Steve's touch for the locals
A new specialist meat counter, a partnership between a local butcher and multiple retailer, has been launched. Sainsbury and West Country-based master butcher Steve Turton are now offering customers to the retailer's Torquay and Exeter stores...
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News
Tesco's refurbishment of its Catford store in south-east Lon
Tesco states that the store refurbishment incorporates an improved fresh food and non-food offer as well as general improvements to the facilities and the shopping experience. These improvements are likely to result in the store attaining the...
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Chiefs: no GM appetite
Bosses at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Safeway have told the government that there is no real appetite for putting GM foods back on the shelves. In a meeting held at DEFRA on Wednesday, chief executives at the top four multiples told DEFRA...
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Suck with Natalie
While the grocery industry is immersed in Safeway, obesity and the GM debate, the folk at Tesco's press office had something more important to discuss at their summer party in London last week: Tim Tams. The retailer has begun stocking...
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Co-op society boosts local sourcing with new scheme
Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op has launched a scheme to drive up the number of locally sourced products available in stores. Dubbed Local Harvest, the scheme has been launched at 20 stores with over 100 products from 11 suppliers in the...
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Outspan woos kids
Outspan is set to launch a promotion in Sainsbury this summer to appeal to families. Packs of branded oranges will be on sale offering ‘kids go free’ tickets to theme parks around the UK.The promotion, which starts next week, will...