more supermarket news & analysis – Page 627
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Sainsbury's IT director Rob Fraser to stand down next year
Sainsbury’s influential IT director Rob Fraser is to leave the supermarket chain next year.
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Analysis & Features
How to turn weather chaos into cash
Are forecasting systems helping retailers to not just cope with the weather but also turn it to their advantage?…
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Tesco unwraps Regent Street Christmas window
Tesco has become the latest Regent Street store to put on a Christmas display, giving a festive makeover to its local Metro branch.
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Tesco tech revolution to kick off in London
Tesco is promising a technology revolution in its London stores next year…
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Booths card mimics Waitrose with free coffee and newspaper
Booths is following in Waitrose’s footsteps by offering its loyalty cardholders free coffee and newspapers…
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Architects petition against demolition of Sainsbury’s Greenwich
Architects have launched an online petition to stop a Sainsbury’s store in Greenwich from being demolished.
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Tesco Clubcard trademark bid rejected by IPO
Tesco has lost a legal battle to register the word ‘Clubcard’ as a trademark.
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Analysis & Features
Black Friday: a gimmick, or the new January sales?
Twitter tales of fights and brawls between bargain hunters at Asda last Friday morning could mean only one thing…
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Asda teams up with former NASA scientist for Christmas jumper
Asda has teamed up with a NASA scientist for the design of a new Christmas jumper.
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Aldi’s £79 Lifetab tablet set to take on Tesco’s Hudl
Aldi has followed in the footsteps of Tesco and Argos with the launch of its own budget tablet.
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Sainsbury's Longstone, Edinburgh
Sainsbury’s is in Edinburgh already, but we treated the opening as if we were coming to the area for the first time…
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Asda eyes greener fleet with dual-fuel trucks
Asda has said it will reduce carbon emissions with the introduction of 50 dual-fuel Volvo FM tractor units at its newly opened distribution centre in Avonmouth, Bristol.
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Supermarkets get pat on the back for clearer shelf pricing
Consumer minister Jo Swinson has praised supermarkets for making the prices of the products they sell clearer and simpler.
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Tesco preps Hudl 2 in next wave of digital services
Tesco revealed today it is to launch an updated version of its Hudl tablet in 2014 after revealing it expected sales of the original device to break the 600,000 figure by the end of the Christmas period.
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Tesco’s Clarke warns there are ‘no quick fixes’ as sales fall
Tesco boss Philip Clarke today described some of the activities of the discounters as “uneconomic” and said the UK’s biggest retailer would not resort to short term fixes on price, despite falling sales.
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Waitrose Christmas trees arrive in store as beef sales soar
Waitrose is sourcing its Christmas trees from the Black Isle, Scotland Waitrose has started selling Christmas trees for the first time this year. The trees – which are all sourced from the Black Isle, north of Inverness in Scotland – went on sale this week in 180 ...
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Booths completes acquisition of fruit and veg supplier Sharrocks
Booths has completed the acquisition of its fruit and veg supplier Sharrocks.
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Tesco and Hilton strike five-year meat deal
Meat packer Hilton Food Group has struck a six-year deal to supply fresh meat to Tesco, extending the two companies’ relationship until February 2019.
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Comment & Opinion
Locals fight supermarket monoculture
Homebaked, a community bakery, has sprung up in an old bakehouse in the shadow of Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium…
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Analysis & Features
Are dark stores the future for Tesco? Not necessarily
No Amazon-style blisters but don’t write off traditional stores yet…