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Tesco ditches ‘best before end’ dates on ‘robust’ fruit and veg
The supermarket rolled out its first SKUs without BBE dates last week, with 70 of its “more robust” items no longer carrying the dates
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M&S launches full review of its food business
Stuart Machin will oversee the review, which will take ‘around two quarters to complete’
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Sainsbury's Sprucefield Park: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘Intu and the council are planning to install an 80-room hotel, 12 new retail units and a large public space through lands
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Timely and efficient Tesco wins: online 33
It impressed with a fairly quick ordering time of 34 minutes and a “straightforward” registration
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Eve Henrikson, Tesco, on winning the Online Grocer 33
‘It’s our intention to create a simpler online experience for customers’
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'Well laid out' Sainsbury's Lisburn takes win
Staff were “easily identified” and “appeared neat and tidy”
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Sainsbury's is the cheapest thanks to three key deals
Sainsbury’s £59.39 total was 99p cheaper than Asda
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Sainsbury's confirms increase to hourly base pay rate
The retailer said the move will give 121,000 store colleagues an average pay rise of 9.3%
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Booths' Media City store sees 90% food to go sales increase
Improvement works at the Manchester store included a new soup & hot sandwich bar, patisserie counter and breakfast bar
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Sainsbury’s looks to smaller brands in babyfood shake-up
Heinz and Hipp dropped for Kiddylicious, For Aisha and Piccolo, as well as Sainsbury’s own Little Ones
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco Direct closure proves you can't out-Amazon Amazon
Aside from racking up Clubcard points on big-ticket purchases, there was very little incentive for shoppers to choose Tesco Direct over Amazon, says Natalie Berg of NBK Retail
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M&S needs food innovation – and fast
The high street is in structural decline, but the issues at M&S run deeper than that
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Labour intervenes in proposed Asda-Sainsbury's merger
Rebecca Long-Bailey, shadow secretary of state for business, said the merger ‘could spell disaster’ for suppliers
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Tesco steps up war on plastic with packaging ban
Tesco said it wanted to work with the supply chain and the government to boost the national recycling infrastructure
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GS1 UK appoints Sainsbury's commercial ops director Biggart
His appointment comes as GS1 UK works with retailers and suppliers to introduce productDNA, which manages product data
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M&S profits plunge 62% amid store closure costs
Marks and Spencer’s pre-tax profits have plunged by 62.1% to £66.8m for the year, with performance hit by tightening food margins and the cost of store closures.
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Closure of Tesco Direct non-food website puts 500 jobs at risk
New CEO Charles Wilson said Tesco Direct will cease trading on 9 July. The Fenny Lock fulfilment centre will also close
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Hotel Chocolat extends swap offer in Waitrose 'copycat' row
An HC spokeswoman said more than 200 of the £2 Waitrose bars had been swapped for its own £3.95 slabs over the weekend
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Former Dixons chief Bickerstaffe to join M&S board
Bickerstaffe has previously held senior roles at Somerfield and Kwik Save