more supermarket news & analysis – Page 512
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Comment & Opinion
My Week… by Mike Coupe (as told to Bill Tush)
At the risk of introducing superfluous levity into this transformative acquisition
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News
Media Bites 4 Feb: Sainsbury's/Home Retail, EasyFoodstore, Mondelez
Old Mutual, the third largest shareholder in Home Retail Group, has issued its support for Sainsbury’s £1.3bn takeover despite previously calling for a higher price.
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News
Food prices rise in January
Food prices have risen for the first time in four months in January as seasonal lines come off promotion
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News
Tacon charges Tesco £1m for code investigation
Adjudicator describes Tesco’s bill as a “significant sum”
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News
The Co-op Group reassures drivers over trunking outsourcing
Co-op plans to re-invest and improve its core depot to store operations
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News
Tesco increases hourly basic rate of pay but cuts overtime
The deal includes a 3.1% hourly rate pay increase for shop workers from July
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News
Sainsbury's offers Home Retail £1.3bn in improved takeover bid
The bid is boosted by the £340m sale of the Homebase chain to Australia-based Westfarmers
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News
The Co-op Group delivery drivers to vote on industrial action
Drivers at Coventry DC fear transfer to Eddie Stobart
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News
Adjudicator Tacon trains sights on fees for shelf positioning
Supermarkets will be given eight weeks to respond to a new probe by Adjudicator Christine Tacon
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News
New year willpower tested as mults cut deals on fruit
Shoppers with healthy eating aspirations would do well to avoid a trip to the supermarkets this month
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Analysis & Features
Tacon category probe captaincy to stir up new hornet's nest
As adjudicator closes file on Tesco she opens another into practices that are “rife” in industry
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Analysis & Features
Tesco chief product officer Jason Tarry on his Tacon to-do list
But there is more to do, admits chief product officer Jason Tarry
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News
Media Bites 1 Feb: Sainsbury's/Home Retail, Tesco, Ocado
The big story in the papers is the upcoming deadline in Sainsbury’s pursuit of Home Retail Group, with the general consensus being that the supermarket needs to find more cash to get the deal done.
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury's Crystal Peaks, Sheffield: G33 store of the week
I’ve been here for seven months and the store has been going well
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Comment & Opinion
Tacon verdict will get a mixed reaction at best from suppliers
Tacon wants to investigate the evolution, as she calls it, of the role of category captaincy
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News
Tesco reveals plans to scrap 24-hour opening at 76 stores
Tesco has revealed plans to scrap night-time opening at dozens of stores
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News
Love Smoothies: healthy drinks trio wins Sainsbury's listing
The new flavours were created with former Fat Duck chef Stefan Cosser
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News
Morrisons challenges its placing in animal welfare report
The retailer was ranked in the fourth of six tiers in the annual Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare audit
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Waitrose claims first with British sea kale listing
The vegetable will be on sale at Waitrose from next week
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News
Tulip wins Morrisons listing for Danepak bacon range
Danepak 220g smoked and unsmoked bacon rashers are being rolled into the retailer’s stores across the country this week