more supermarket news & analysis – Page 440
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Tesco Bank adds card blocking feature to its mobile app
The new feature allows shoppers to block a ‘lost’ card from being used while allowing the account to remain active
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Comment & Opinion
What’s behind the latest round of supermarket head office job cuts?
Another month, another round of supermarket job cuts
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Sainsbury's rumoured to be axing over 1,000 jobs at head office
Sainsbury’s is rumoured to be axing more than 1,000 jobs at its head office just one month after Tesco made a swingeing round of redundancies.
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Marks & Spencer launches lunchtime meal deal for £3.50
The deal, for a “bargain price”, was introduced last week and is thought to be the cheapest ever from the retailer
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Comment & Opinion
Put customers first, like Tesco. It works
It has been a difficult few years for Tesco, even if the broad consensus is that it has turned the corner
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury's Inglis Green Rd, Edinburgh: G33 store of the week
“All the colleagues were recruited from the local area – it has meant quite a lot for the local community”
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Comment & Opinion
McColl's has made a sharp deal with Morrisons
The McColl’s-Morrisons supply deal has thrown a large rock in the wholesale pond
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Analysis & Features
Turf Wars: the battle between Walmart and Amazon
As Amazon and Walmart battle it out for territory in the US, we analyse how they measure up on the key tactical areas
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Tesco swaps black tea for trendy blends in range overhaul
The shake-up sees cuts to black tea lines by PG Tips and Typhoo
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Clubcard confusion as Tesco's new fobs prove non-contactless
The fobs, used by many shoppers as an alternative to the card, have left staff having to manually scan points
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Tacon sent remedies in drop & drive furore
Supermarkets embroiled in a row over drop & drive charges have written to Christine Tacon setting out plans to respond
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Hilton Food Group shares rise on Icelandic speculation
Shares in Hilton Food Group surged on the news it is in pole position to snap up Saucy Fish Co owner Icelandic Seachill
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Analysis & Features
Supermarkets edging back towards multibuy promotions
Britain’s biggest supermarkets appear to be switching back to multibuys
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News
Asda gets a leg up from lamb in this week's Grocer 33 win
But Sainsbury’s £7.85 average price for a half leg of lamb is lower than even Asda’s
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury's Longstone Edinburgh wins G33 with huge score
The checkout experience was great with a “very nice elderly gentleman chatting whilst scanning”…
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Asda hikes price of a kilo of bananas to 76p
The move makes Asda’s loose bananas the most expensive across the mults, closely followed by Waitrose
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Tesco cuts British lamb facings to 50%
The levy board’s latest Beef & Lamb Watch analysis revealed that just 50% of Tesco’s lamb facings were British in June 201…
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Marks & Spencer links with Wasabi for sushi counter trial
The trial will run at five M&S stores, four of which are in London
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Comment & Opinion
Battle of the cookery competitions is good news for fmcg brands
Proof will be in the pudding to see which food programme rises to the top, meanwhile supermarkets had better start stocking up on ingredients
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News
Waitrose to reach 75 sushi counters by 2018
With the latest launch in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, it has opened more than 20 counters in the past six months