more supermarket news & analysis – Page 560
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Sainsbury’s marks palm oil milestone, launches new sustainable washing-up liquid
Sainsbury’s has announced 95% of the palm oil used in its own-label products now comes from certified sustainable sources.
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Asda slashes price of four pints of milk to 89p
Asda has fired a new salvo in the supermarket price war by slashing the price of four pints of milk to 89p.
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Asda to trial wonky veg as Oliver raps stores over ‘criminal’ waste
Asda is to trial the sale of ‘wonky’ veg as TV chef Jamie Oliver launches a campaign encouraging shoppers to buy misshapen produce.
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FRC launches fresh probe into Tesco accounts
Accounting watchdog the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched an investigation…
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Christmas jumper sales surge 160% at Asda
2014 may well be remembered as the year Brits went crazy for kitsch Christmas jumpers…
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Comment & Opinion
Every Little Elfs
Tesco boss Dave Lewis must have wished a few times in the last few months that he could call on some help from above…
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Digital war will overtake the price war in 2015
The digital war will “overtake the price war” in 2015, as the big four supermarkets try to avoid looking “dangerously homogenous”, retail analysts Planet Retail have predicted.
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Grocery staples battered in savage supermarket wars
Fruit and veg sales down £450m as supermarket price war rages…
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Co-op sells Portishead and Chatteris stores to Aldi
The Co-operative Group has sold a further two stores to Aldi as it continues the sell-off of its larger stores…
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Analysis & Features
Waitrose Love Life Beef Feijoada Soup: acid test
Launched as part of Waitrose’s Love Life range of healthy, low-fat recipes, this soup is based…
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Aldi sales growth slows down to 'only' 22%
The rampant growth of the discounters has been one of the defining stories of 2014…
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Family spending power up £11, says Asda
Family spending power is up this Christmas, following the biggest annual increase to discretionary income in almost five years, according to the Asda Income Tracker.
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury's Hamilton: Grocer 33 Store of the Week
It takes some serious planning! It’s all about making sure colleagues are trained and everyone is scheduled…
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Grocer 33
'Top-notch' Hamilton store gives Sainsbury's the win
Sainsbury’s won by a comfortable margin this week, scoring a whopping 14 points more than its nearest rival, Tesco…
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Ninth Tesco employee suspended
A ninth person has been suspended as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation continues into the £263m black hole in Tesco’s accounts…
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Fuel prices fall again at the supermarkets
Supermarkets could be first to hit what the RAC predicts could be the lowest petrol prices in more than five years early in 2015. The motoring organisation believes petrol could soon be selling for under £1 a litre – a price last seen in late May 2009. Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons ...
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Asda's Andy Clarke to take over IGD presidency in January
Asda chief executive Andy Clarke will step into Mars Chocolate UK and global retail president Fiona Dawson’s shoes as president of the IGD from the new year. Clarke, who has been vice-president of the food and grocery research and training charity for two years, will serve the same period as ...
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Tesco adds teams of little helpers to pack bags in the run-up to Christmas
Tesco is today created teams of dedicated bag packers at 400 of its stores to help ramp up service in the run up to Christmas.
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Russian troubles hit Metro's full-year figures
Christmas trading is picking up for retailing giant Metro Group after a slow start for its food and textile business in Germany, with Metro Cash and Carry and Media-Saturn showing record year-on-year growth in December.
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Each of the big four supermarkets sees market share declines
The UK grocery market has returned to marginal growth as sales picked up driven by pre-Christmas price discounts, according to the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel.