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Lower overall price platform at hypermarket
A different pricing strategy marked the opening of Safeway's first ever hypermarket in Plymouth this week. Safeway has abandoned its traditional high:low pricing policy for the new store at Plymstock, opting instead for cheaper prices throughout...
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The Welsh valleys may be new ground for Morrisons, but this
The fact that a lot of the customers visiting the new Rogerstone store in South Wales may not even have heard of the company before does not seem to have had any effect on its popularity. "Before we opened there were next to no preconceptions about...
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Carling 24-pack at £9.99 is lunacy'
Sainsbury's move to slash the price of Carling has brought howls of outrage from the wholesale sector. Sainsbury shocked the trade with national advertising for a 24 pack of Carling 440ml cans at £9.99 (down from £12.99). This is a pack exclusive...
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Interbrew co-operation wins it a reduced fine
Close co-operation with EU anti-trust authorities in their crackdown on beer cartels has worked in Interbrew's favour and reduced the fine for its anti-competitive practices in Belgium from 10% of its turnover to just 46.5m euros (£30m). The...
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n Sainsbury's customer segmentation work has allowed it to s
Shoppers have an uncanny knack of spotting when the head office suits are in a store and have no qualms about approaching and telling them exactly what they think about this or that. That's why we know the shoppers in Camberley and Crawley are...
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Safeway sizes up to weight worriers with Smart alternatives
Safeway is to launch a 150-strong range of low fat products called Eat Smart in time for the New Year dieting panic. Consisting of meals, desserts, sandwiches, snacks and meal accompaniments, the range features low fat, low calorie versions of...
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Co-ops' buying power boosted as United comes on board the CR
The food buying power of the entire co-operative movement is set to be concentrated in a single buying group. United Co-op, the second largest co-operative society in the UK, has announced that it has applied to join CRTG, the £4.5bn food buying...
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C-stores' delight as multiples decide to close for Christmas
Independent retailers will have the grocery retail market almost to themselves on Christmas Day following the multiples' decision to close on December 25. The only stores trading in the multiple arena will be a handful of Somerfield stores in...
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Simply Food makes its railway debut
Marks & Spencer has opened the first of four trial Simply Food c-stores at railway sites. The store opened on Thursday at Liverpool Street station in London, and will be followed by stores at Victoria station due to open this Thursday, and one at...
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Tesco alliance set for 15 Malaysian hypermarkets
Tesco has announced aggressive expansion plans for Malaysia after signing a deal with local joint venture partner Sime Darby. But the multiple also released a trading statement showing a slight slowdown in its global sales growth. The Malaysian...
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Your Local no2 opens
Plymouth and South West Co-operative Society has unveiled its second store to be rebranded under the new Your Local Co-op' format in Torpoint, Plymouth. The society announced plans to axe its traditional Plymco fascia in favour of the new...
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Marks and Spencer has sold its US clothing subsidiary Brooks
Ahold's operating profit rose 21.7% to 667.2m euros on sales up 12.6% to 15.5bn euros for the 12 weeks to October 7. The Weston family, through its Wittington Investments arm, has taken full control of Fortnum & Mason after buying out the...
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n High brand penetration and benign pricing have been the ha
Napoleon might have uncharitably dubbed Jersey a pustule on Albion's backside', but when it comes to food retailing, the nation of shopkeepers could learn a thing or two from the grocers on the Channel Islands. Indeed, when Sainsbury was looking...
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Waitrose contributes to probe into accentuating the positive
Waitrose employees are being invited to contribute to a research project designed to identify how people make positive life changes. The supermarket is just one organisation being canvassed by Graham Price, postgraduate student at Birkbeck College's...
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Santa with a rosey nosey
Batemans has introduced a bit of fun to the Christmas beer fixture by adding a Santa Claus hat to its seasonal Rosey Nosey Ale. The ale comes in a gift pack complete with a deck of cards and retails at £2.49. Sainsbury, Safeway, Booths, Unwins and...
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Posh 'n' Becks in another Somerfield
Regular readers of this page will know that Posh and Becks are big fans of the Somerfield store in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. So a picture of them in one of the multiple's stores should not be too surprising. But wait a minute. This is the...
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What's in store?
This year retailers have taken to heart the criticism being hurled at their bacon fixtures and have been busily overhauling them. Waitrose says it has been improved by continual rationalisation and regeneration of the product mix. Its best sellers...
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proof of the pudding from young's
Young's has made its first venture into the festive ale market with Christmas Pudding Ale, which is being sold exclusively by Sainsbury. The yuletide tipple will be on sale in a gift pack, retailing at £2.99, which features a Young's pint glass and...
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Heat rises in processor rivalry as Wiseman gets trial JS lis
Scottish milk processor Robert Wiseman has secured its first listings at Sainsbury the only major multiple not on its books as part of a trial to prove its mettle in terms of product quality and operational efficiency. If the three-month trial...
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Somerfield goes for gold with So Good
Rod Addy Somerfield aims to poach premium brand customers from Tesco and Sainsbury with So Good, its new own label upmarket food range. It is particularly looking to steal shoppers who are dedicated to those bigger rivals but still use Somerfield...