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NewsSainsbury's expands Patisserie Valerie products to 70 stores
All stores with Patisserie Valerie concessions offer a click & collect service
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NewsCity snapshot: Co-op's audacious £15m bid for Costcutter rebuffed
The Co-op Group has made an audacious bid to buy convenience retailer Costcutter for around £15m, according to weekend reports. Plus, two more of Premier Foods’ largest shareholders back a campaign to oust CEO Gavin Darby, a look at the financial calendar this week and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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Analysis & FeaturesTesco prices rise faster than rivals for more than a year
The latest Grocer Price Index shows Tesco has overseen price rises at a faster rate than its rivals every month for an entire year
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NewsSainsbury's shares boosted as Asda merger gets a step closer
Sainsbury’s (SBRY) reaffirmed itself as the slowest growing of the major UK grocers on Wednesday, but it’s the City shrugged off its stagnant sales to focus on news its mega-merger with Asda is a step closer.
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Comment & OpinionTesco-Carrefour is a pioneering deal, but purchasing alliances face challenges
The retailers said the motivation was to improve the quality and choice of products available to their customers
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Comment & OpinionTesco-Carrefour: who needs to merge with an entente cordiale?
If Tesco can successfully partner with Carrefour, it could be very powerful, but it’s a big if
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NewsCentral England Co-op introduces additional security measures
The measures include increasing its provision of security guards in stores
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NewsTesco revives Creamfields dairy brand after four-year hiatus
The return of Creamfields comes amid a major overhaul of Tesco’s own label offering, dubbed Project Atlas
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NewsMorrisons online expansion delivered by Ocado's Erith CFC
The development takes Morrisons’ core online grocery operation into South London and the two new counties for the first time
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NewsBRC sends Theresa May new warning over no-deal Brexit
Oliver Wyman report finds supermarkets will by hard hit without smooth Brexit
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NewsChild's food waste invention could gain Ocado listing
Rumaan Malik’s ‘Alarm Cup’ fruit bowl alerts owners when its contents have two days to go before expiry
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NewsSub 10-minute grocery deliveries by 2025, says report
Food packaging company Tetra Pak interviewed leading online grocery retailers from Europe, North America and China to gain…
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NewsIceland is top supermarket for customer service
The supermarket scored 84/100 based on customer satisfaction
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NewsSainsbury's sales growth slows following price investments
Like-for-likes were up 0.2% compared to 0.9% in the previous quarter
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NewsTesco scraps Brand Guarantee in favour of low everyday prices
The supermarket giant will pull the plug on the scheme on 16 July
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NewsCity snapshot: Sainsbury's like for like growth slows to 0.2% in first quarter
Sainsbury’s like-for-like sales growth slowed to 0.2% in the first quarter of 2018 as it instigated price cuts to battle a “competitive market”.
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NewsRob McWilliam to replace Alex Russo as Asda CFO
McWilliam left Asda in 2012 to join Amazon, where he worked until January last year
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NewsScottish gin Rock Rose gains national listing in Sainsbury's
The 41.5% abv drink rolls into 135 stores this week with an rsp of £35
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NewsSainsbury's boosts vegetarian and vegan lines by 10%
New meat alternative products will be stocked alongside meat fixtures
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NewsLidl to create 300 jobs with five new stores across Scotland
The discounter has announced plans to recruit up to 40 new staff for each of the planned stores