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Asda: introducing the comedy store
Asda has placed an ad in The Stage magazine looking for 100 budding actors to provide instore entertainment for customers as they shop. Prospective greeters will be expected to "keep the instore atmosphere buzzing with a variety performance of...
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National Vegetarian Week: A week for the veggies
The Co-operative Group and Tesco are marking National Vegetarian Week (June 25-July 1) with a series of instore initiatives and promotions. The event is organised by the Vegetarian Society, which is also launching an awards ceremony to recognise...
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Mr Oliver dresses down for Sainsbury
Sainsbury has been celebrating the improvement of its store in Rustington in West Sussex by sending the locals a manifesto style leaflet which features a grinning Mr Jamie Oliver. But this is odd. The two Naked Chef books portray him as a hunk, a...
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Multiples: Waitrose puts puts faces to fruit on PoS
Waitrose is featuring its English growers in store for the first time on point of sale material to emphasise quality, seasonality and the close relationship which they have built up. Strawberry producers Harry Hall of Hall Hunter, Wokingham, and...
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Morrisons: First of seven stores opened
Morrisons opened the first of seven stores planned for 2001 in Jarrow, near Newcastle this week. The new 70,000 sq ft store carries over 20,000 product lines and extends Morrisons market street concept - a collection of individual in-store fresh...
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Exotics: Mania for mangoes
Sainsbury and Safeway have already given their support to a Mango Week from August 17-27 to coincide with the peak arrivals from Puerto Rico and Israel. Sant Mehta, chairman of the UK's largest supplier Minor Weir & Willis, aims to create an...
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Haiti at Waitrose
A Haitian liqueur is beginning to make inroads in the UK off-trade. Toussaint Dry coffee liqueur first became available in leading London on-trade accounts and its UK agent InSpirit has now negotiated a listing for it in 54 Waitrose outlets. The...
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Ireland: Tesco accuses union of jumping gun as store staff v
Tesco Ireland is bracing itself for strike action on June 29 and July 5 after a ballot by unions found 93% in favour of industrial action over low pay. A spokesman from Mandate, which represents over 9,000 of Tesco's 9,500 staff, said further...
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Far East: Tesco links with GE for Thai credit card launch
Tesco is teaming up with the Thai division of US giant General Electric to launch a credit card for shoppers in Thailand this summer. Tesco and GE Capital, General Electric's financial arm, will form a £32m joint venture company to set up and...
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Crime: Staff must be trained to restrain people properly'
Training staff to tackle violence instore is dangerously low on the priority list for most retailers, warned former hostage negotiator and Safeway external consultant Mark Dawes. Speaking at a retail crime conference hosted by Reliance Security…
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Wal-Mart in the UK: Two years on: happy days
The Grocer had long predicted it, but Wal-Mart's dramatic arrival on the UK scene, scuppering a bid from Kingfisher to seize Asda, astounded many industry leaders and commentators. The entire grocery sector braced itself for the Wal-Mart effect'....
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Wal-Mart in the UK: The price is right
Andrew Czarnowski examines the effect EDLP has had on Asda's relentless growth in market share Asda's story has much of the blockbuster novel to it. Founded by grounded Yorkshire farmers, once dancing on the brink of bankruptcy, re-incarnated as...
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National Grocers' Benevolent Fund: NGBF must meet needs of m
The National Grocers' Benevolent Fund is planning to relaunch itself as an organisation that is more in tune with the needs of today's fmcg industry. Robin Whitbread, the new president of the trade charity and Sainsbury's retail director, said a...
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Wal-Mart in the UK: Big ideas in small spaces
It's Asda's answer to Wal-Mart's neighbourhood convenience format, and it's opened in Bodmin. Exclusive report by Helen Gregory Asda is mirroring Wal-Mart's neighbourhood store concept with the opening of its ...
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Retail crime: hi-tech drive against crime
Tesco is teaming up with South Wales police in a high tech bid to cut crime across the region. Special computer kiosks are being installed in three stores, Talbot Green, Aberdare and Pontypridd, which will contain crime information. The kiosks...
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Wal-Mart in the UK: The last word
Compare and contrast...what the industry had to say at the time of Asda's takeover and the words of wisdom they're offering now, two years on Ex-Tesco chairman Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth (May 1999) "Before entering a new market you must feel you...
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Organics: Sainsbury's range grows and moves to mainstream
Sainsbury is drawing its organic offer into the mainstream as it remerchandises stores across its portfolio, and adds 100 lines to the range. The latest additions will bring Sainsbury's total of organic lines up to 1,000. Organic cereals, pasta,...
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The Grocer focus on petcare: trends and developments
Themed events have already been a success in other food sectors, and Tesco's support for National Pet Week last month and its pet insurance schemes with a free guide to pet astrology were surefire attractions. But quirky ideas have a way of...
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Tesco: Wasilewski does it again
Analysts are continuing to wrangle over Tesco's accounting policies after ABN Amro analyst Mark Wasilewski again rattled investors with a second research note suggesting Tesco's accounting policy had inflated earnings per share by up to 10%....
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Opinion: Beware the cult of Carlos
Talk to anybody at Safeway these days and you can't help thinking they have all joined some strange religious cult. Almost without fail, and always without any prompting, they will rattle on about how Carlos has done this, that and the other. Store...