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Asda prepares for grey christmas
Asda has stepped up its campaign to increase the number of over 50s working at its stores.The retailer is on the look out for 10,000 ‘christmas colleagues’ of which it wants 3,300 to be over 50 years old.The new recruits will fill...
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Tesco to create thousands of jobs at home and abroad
TescoÂ’s interim pre-tax profit has jumped 13.3% but said it was seeing a return to a more normal level of trading in the UK with like-for-like sales slowing to 3.9%.The retailer said pre-tax profit for the six months to August 24 rose to...
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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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Perrier launches diet aid water Contrex
Perrier Vittel has become the latest company to push mineral water as a slimming aid with the launch of Contrex in the UK. Initially rolling out exclusively through Waitrose, Contrex  which comes from the Vosges region of France  is said to...
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Tesco's Maltese question
While taking a break in ex-pat magnet Malta, one of our eagle eyed reporters thought she'd stumbled on a scoop when her guidebook said that the local supermarket was run by Tesco. All thoughts of catacombs abandoned, she hot footed it to the...
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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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Asda must prepare to take a hit
Safeway has begun its fight back for market share in Scotland with the opening of its first Megastore north of the border at Anniesland, Glasow. As reported in The Grocer on August 24, Safeway is determined not to let Asda's ambitions push it...
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...as Tesco hails FGP as a success
Tesco is handling 20 million cases a month through its factory gate initiative  just one year after it was launched, says group supply chain chain director David Wild. The major multiple started the project with its frozen goods suppliers and...
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Stormin' Stella takes second slot
Though Morrisons remains at the top of the chart, competition has become increasingly fierce with the four leaders standing within six percentage points of each other. In addition Sainsbury and Somerfield, in positions five and six, are just...
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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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Battlelines for premium
Elaine Watson A major battle is brewing between the multiples for supremacy in the premium own label market. Tesco is gearing up for a complete overhaul of its Finest range in October with a raft of new and reformulated products, and pack...
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Somerfield
Somerfield is extending two experiments, 24 hour trading and in store coffee bars. On July 18 three more stores will join the New Invention outlet in Willenhall, West Midlands and trade throughout the night Bristol, Dulwich and Birmingham. The...
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Coffee is where the greatest effort is needed to drive sales
Pat Collier hot beverages buyer for the Co-op group The Nescafe campaign has added some interest into the category. But initial views are that the new users it has attracted tend to enter through smaller pack sizes. As in soft...
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Nectar Points Are Sweeter
If the marketing is to be believed, shoppers across the nation will be lapping up Nectar when the multi-retailer loyalty scheme launches in store on Monday. And, perhaps more than any of the other participants, Sainsbury will be praying it is a...
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Self-scanning boosts loyalty at Waitrose
Waitrose has posted a rise in interim like-for-like sales of 3.5% as the supermarket prepares to open its first new store since the Autumn of 2000.The chain said the introduction of its hand-held self-scanning system had reduced costs and...
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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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TV plugs for new stores
Supermarket Morrisons is planning a return to TV in autumn and winter with new executions of its ongoing ad campaign.Regional clips at the end of the TV adverts will draw attention to six new stores Morrisons is opening this...
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Suppliers replenish our basket
In the current depressed financial climate, The Grocer's basket of shares has taken an upward turn - we've made a whole £4m this month.Despite most of our companies recording a loss, gains by Somerfield, Associated British Foods, Dairy Crest,...
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New quartet shakes up brands
Morrisons has pulled further ahead of the other retailers in the chart this week and now stands six percentage points ahead of Tesco which has moved up to number two. Sainsbury has shown improvement, moving up from fifth place to number four...
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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...