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The Grocer guide to careers: What it's like
The art of getting noticed Let's face it, not many graduates leave university with a burning desire to start selling custard creams to a sceptical buyer at Tesco. It just doesn't appear quite as sexy as selling media space or working at the cutting...
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The Grocer 33: Blisteringly hot weekend brings boost to bangers as the barbecue comes out
Blisteringly hot weekend brings boost to bangers as the barbecue comes out. A sizzling hot weekend meant a rush on sausages for the barbie this week. Sainsbury at Marsh Mills, Plymouth, had run out of them, while the only Asda ones on offer were...
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The Grocer focus on alcoholic drinks: CHEESMAN'S HEROES
Branded wines used to struggle to get on to Sainsbury's shelves, but now they are there in force and appear destined for a great future Christmas is looking good, and Sainsbury's wine director Allan Cheesman intends to make sure it is a very merry...
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Wind turbine power for JS
A Sainsbury distribution depot in East Kilbride is to use a wind turbine to generate up to 40% of its energy needs. The trial is part of the multiple's investigation into making renewable energy a bigger proportion of its electricity source. Its...
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Internet retailing: Refreshed Tesco woos online shoppers
Exclusive Anne Bruce Tesco.com is preparing to revamp its home shopping website and introduce two major initiatives. Carolyn Bradley, chief operating officer, says the company is already trialing a new e-Clubcard scheme and is developing a store...
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Management: Change is easy for companies that can accept mis
Organisations must be prepared to abandon traditional ways of managing people if they are to prosper in the new business age, according to Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco. "The nature of modern society and modern competition as industries...
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Promotions: Tesco's Record Breakers!
Tesco is trying to galvanise its sales through a new staff initiative dubbed Record Breakers. The scheme revolves around a three-month promotion on 12 different products and categories. A bonus scheme encourages store staff to drive sales of the...
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Lang's Beef
After lonely years criticising supermarkets, I'm bemused these days to swim with the tide. It is fashionable to knock stores for ripping off Britain. The middle classes, who years ago valued houses by proximity to Sainsbury, now grumble about...
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Sourdough loaf about
The Prince of Wales' organic food brand Duchy Originals has added a ready to bake mild sourdough loaf to its range. The new addition is handmade by craft baker La Fornaia and will be launched initially through Sainsburys. Duchy Originals says the...
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Supermarket profitability inquiry: Byers battles to save fac
Exclusive Clive Beddall New legislation forcing the big five supermarket operators to seek OFT approval if they want to open another store within 15 minutes drive of their existing properties could provoke legal challenges from the multiples. As...
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Supermarket pricing: Ireland: they're level pegging
A new shopping basket' survey in the Irish Republic has raised questions about how seriously the multiples are competing with each other on prices for general grocery products. The survey, which comes less than two months after the own label price...
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Raw milk: Processor rises blasted as derisory' by the NFU
Multiples are paying more to processors with Asda making it a condition of supply British dairy farmers are furious with the outcome of the latest set of raw milk prices offered by processors. The National Farmers' Union has branded Dairy Crest's...
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Apples: Innovation stays rosy
English apple growers are coming up with new varities to eventually compete in the international market. One on sale for the first time this year is Suffolk Pink, sold exclusively by Waitrose. Traypacks of four were priced at £1.59. According...
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In the city: Tesco's price cuts and the shadow of the impend
Investors holding stock in the supermarkets sector seemed to get very twitchy this week but perhaps with good reason. First, there was the news Tesco was knocking another £55m off its prices as the supermarket price war entered a new phase. And...
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FREE FRUIT FOR GLASGOW KIDS
Sainsbury is to give Glasgow schoolchildren free fruit as part of a three month initiative aimed at boosting their fruit and vegetable consumption. The project runs from January to March in 14 Glasgow primary schools. If it works, it will be rolled...
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Table Talk: Antony Worral Thompson chef and tv personaility
With the news that both M&S and the John Lewis Partnership (which owns Waitrose) are suffering financially, what might the implications be for the quality of food in their stores? I hope it won't be affected as both groups have made huge strides...
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Tesco shake-up focuses on store formats
Exclusive Kit Davies Tesco has ditched its traditional regional management structure in favour of one focused on store formats. And retail director David Potts claims the move will provide a definitive break with its superstore rivals all of...
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Ireland's battle at the checkouts: Tesco: The Irish Experien
Tesco moved into the Irish market three years ago, buying the 75-store Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices chain from Associated British Foods for I£630m, a price some in the trade regarded as high. Since then the company has invested another I£200m in...
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Ireland's battle at the checkouts: making war or out on man
Anthony Garvey reports on reactions to Tesco Ireland's claim of an altruistic' price blitz coming, as it does, on the eve of the government's review of the ban on below cost selling The woman unloading her heavily stocked shopping trolley in the...
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The National Lottery: Camelot the retailers' choice in lotte
Exclusive Elaine Watson Camelot has emerged as the retailers' choice to run the national lottery in a survey carried out for The Grocer. We quizzed independents with a Lottery terminal and found 44% want Camelot to retain the licence double the...