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Online retailing: Tesco targets Mothercare with baby site
Tesco has launched a new web site offering parents and prospective parents advice, information, shopping facilities and chatrooms to talk to other parents about their experiences. The You and Your Child site accessed via Tesco.com deals with issues...
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Sainsbury: SIXTY STORES TO GET HOME SHOP
Sainsbury aims to put its expanded cookware range into 60 stores in the next two years. The Home Shop is now in 22 stores and will go into Harrogate and Burton-on-Trent next month; the range is usually introduced when shops are "reinvigorated"....
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Co-op decides honesty the best policy for selling own label
The Co-op is extending its honest-labelling policy to cover its entire range of own-label wines and is celebrating the move in its first ever women's press campaign. The £1m push, which aims to highlight the group's self-proclaimed position as a...
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Convenience stores: Connex stations set for 40 stores
Exclusive Anne Bruce Railway stations have become the latest battle ground for convenience operators with French catering giant Elior preparing to launch a co-branded c-store chain. The news comes a week after Marks and Spencer revealed it was...
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Co-op: Farmcare overhauled
The Co-operative Group has carried out a major overhaul of its farming operation Farmcare which is intended to make it more customer oriented. Following the review and a restructuring of the management team, Farmcare, one of the UK's largest...
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Lamb: Longer tail looms to FMD than predicted
In Cumbrian hotspot cases more than doubled in week to August 4 Leaflets from the Co-Op promoting fresh lamb shoulder at half price, £1.99 per kg, dropped into household letter boxes at Penrith, Cumbria on Monday, a day after the announcement by...
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Sainsbury: Parrot talk with Oliver
Sainsbury is to add a further 50 lines to its Blue Parrot Café range of food for children this summer. Sales of the range, which currently consists of 150 products, are set to exceed £45m this year. A spokeswoman said awareness of the range among...
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Apples: Jazz debut at Marks
Marks and Spencer is promoting the latest New Zealand apple variety called Jazz for the first time this season. The bicoloured fruit is a Braeburn/Royal Gala cross and is harvested later than either. Because of its tolerance to storage it can be...
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This FT story really is a bit of a flop...
Oh dear. You know the silly season has started in earnest when the Financial Times runs a story about how the popularity of flip-flops has led to a surge in the sale of plasters at Sainsbury. We kid you not. Such a story appeared in the pink 'un...
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Tesco: New deli trialled
Tesco is following Safeway and Sainsbury's lead as it trials new deli counters at its Bar Hill superstore, north of Cambridge. The new look store boasts Continental-style touches such as Tesco's first ever self service olive bar. Other innovations...
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Marks and Spencer's Simply Food: M&S set for more high stree
Marks and Spencer's Simply Food c-store format looks set for major expansion just three weeks after the first trial store opened. Sites for further high street c-stores have already been identified, and the retailer has linked up with the Compass...
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Customer habits: Asda takes the top spot for loyalty to the
Asda has the most devoted shoppers visiting its stores, while Tesco ranks highest in the loyalty stakes for shoppers who combine use of its stores, web site and loyalty scheme. Exclusive research from relationship marketing agency, Carlson...
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Safeway: Gas powered lorries aim to beat curfews
Safeway is hoping gas powered lorries could mean an end to delivery curfews in built up areas. The multiple took delivery this week of the first of 40 compressed natural gas powered lorries, the first to be converted and recycled from its diesel...
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Sainsbury aims to double box appeal
Exclusive Tim Palmer Sainsbury is breaking new ground in the wine market with the introduction of a box containing two different wines. The Duo box is the brainchild of Patrick Darlington whose company developed the new-style packaging....
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Sainsbury: Disappointed' Whitbread to go
Sainsbury's longest serving director, Robin Whitbread, is leaving the company after being passed over in a restructure in which the supermarket created two new assistant managing director posts. Sainsbury CEO Sir Peter Davis said: "Robin Whitbread...
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Rural action: Charles pushes local sourcing
Clive Beddall Chief executives of Sainsbury, the Co-operative Group, Spar and the IGD stood alongside the Prince of Wales at St James's Palace on Tuesday to give a high profile send-off to what could be the biggest ever boost for locally produced...
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No battery egg aim at M&S
Marks & Spencer claims it is set to become the first food retailer to completely remove battery eggs from its food range. The chain, which has been bolstering flagging fortunes in its clothing sector with innovations in its grocery aisles, said the...
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Tesco veg margins extortionate'
Sir; The prices charged for fresh vegetables at Tesco in Mickleover, Derby, are extortionate. For instance, the potatoes which I bought cost me £1.79 a kilo. According to the label they were Maris Piper. This equates to a price of £1,790 a tonne...
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Multiples: Extra pivotal as Tesco works to boost entertainme
Tesco aims to double its turnover of entertainment products online by the end of this year and aims to sell more than 12 million items both at Tesco.com and in store between October and December. At a conference for entertainment suppliers, Tesco...
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Brammy Awards: JS fends off Waitrose to grab the Brammy glor
Sainsbury emerged triumphant in this year's Brammy Awards winning two of the product categories and being named best multiple retailer. But the chain faced fierce competition from Waitrose, which came a close second in many of the categories and won...