more supermarket news & analysis – Page 603
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Analysis & Features
Quids in - will Tesco's Brand Outlet trouble the £-stores?
Tesco is confident its bigger and better pound zones will make a difference……
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Analysis & Features
Price war helps push price inflation down to new low
As the price war heats up, inflation at the big four supermarkets has taken another tumble…
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News
Tesco to go 'bigger and bolder' on innovation
Tesco has set an ambitious new target for sales from new products – telling suppliers it wants to be “bigger and bolder” on innovation.
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News
Usdaw: existing Sunday trading laws are 'fair and balanced'
Shopworkers union Usdaw has come out fighting against the latest attempts to force through a relaxation in Sunday trading.
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News
Morrisons secures Cruelty-Free status for own-label cosmetics
Morrisons has secured an ethical stamp of approval guaranteeing its personal care and cosmetic ranges are free from animal…
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News
Co-op Group's stake in Co-op Bank to fall again
The Co-operative Group’s 30% stake in The Co-operative Bank is set to fall following a new capital placing by the embattled bank.
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury's Burnley
I’m delighted. This is my second win – and it’s also my 25th anniversary at Sainsbury’s this year…
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News
Halal meat furore: What does the food industry say?
Halal meat is back in the headlines. The Grocer rounds up reaction and opinion from industry, trade bodies, animal welfare charities and more.
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News
Morrisons like-for-like sales tumble in first quarter
Morrisons has reported an 8.2% fall in like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to 4 May.
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Comment & Opinion
Myners' strike
On the same day Lord Paul Myners released his 184-page review into the corporate governance of The Co-operative Group, Paul Flowers was in court pleading guilty to possessing drugs.
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Comment & Opinion
Is Tesco's Hudl phone smart?
Will Tesco’s Hudl smartphone be as big a hit as its tablet? It may have a job on its hands.
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News
'Phenomenal' own-label wines triumph at IWC 2014
Twenty-three own-label supermarket wines have won gold medals in the International Wine Challenge 2014.
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News
Waitrose to open online wine cellar with 1,200 lines
Waitrose is launching a new dedicated wine site, Waitrose Cellar – just as Morrisons has announced it is merging its online wine shop, Morrisons Cellar, with its new grocery site.
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News
Grocery market growth falls to lowest level in 11 years
Overall growth in the UK grocery market fell to its lowest level in 11 years, new figures have revealed.
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News
Myners lays out plan for ‘radical change’ at The Co-op
Lord Paul Myners has called for “radical change” in the corporate governance of The Co-operative Group so that the society can recover from the “traumatic shocks” it has experienced over the past year.
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Comment & Opinion
Morrisons wings it
When Morrisons decided to beam an advert for a baguette onto the 54m-wide wings of the Angel of the North last Friday night, it can’t have imagined the furore that would result.
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News
Sainsbury’s profits climb 5.3% as King heads for exit
Sainsbury’s has posted a 5.3% increase in pre-tax profits to £798m for the year to 15 March.
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News
Tesco to launch smartphone as Clarke eyes ‘six more years’ in job
Tesco is extending its Hudl brand with the launch of an own-label smartphone by the end of the year, CEO Philip Clarke said today.
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News
Whole Foods Market price-matches Waitrose
Whole Foods Market has become the latest grocer to launch a price-matching scheme…
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News
Tesco to roll out up to 300 new pound zones
Tesco is rolling out hundreds of new “pound shop” areas to its biggest stores as it takes aim at the likes of Poundland…