more supermarket news & analysis – Page 638
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Waitrose serves up Bowl chilled soups
Waitrose is launching a new chilled soup brand called Bowl next week, going after the young consumer crowd.
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Morrisons chefs hit the trail with M Kitchen cooking roadshow
Morrisons is taking its chefs on the road today as part of a cookery bus roadshow, designed to promote the relaunch of its M Kitchen range.
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Pork supplier FA Gill in dialogue with Cranswick and Tesco
FA Gill, the slaughterhouse implicated in last week’s pork mislabelling row, says it is in “positive and ongoing dialogue” with other parties involved.
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Asda pushes out range of ‘roast-in-the-bag’ whole chickens
Asda has launched a seven-strong range of ‘roast-in-the-bag’ flavoured whole chickens complete with recipes to encourage use of leftovers.
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Sainsbury’s petrol price cut of 6p a litre prompts Asda fight back
Sainsbury’s has become the latest supermarket to slash its fuel prices – by 6p a litre on petrol.
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Sainsbury’s urges shoppers to build 'bee hotels'
Sainsbury’s is encouraging people to do their bit for declining bee populations by providing customers, schools and local community groups with instructions on how to build a ‘bee hotel’.
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Waitrose trumpets British apple selection with Alan Titchmarsh ad
Waitrose is lauding its British sourcing credentials in its latest ‘The Story of…’ TV ad to promote the 50 British apple varieties it stocks.
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Tesco and Asda apologise for ‘mental patient’ costumes
Tesco and Asda have apologised after it emerged they had been selling Halloween costumes depicting ‘mental health’ patients online.
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Tesco parts company with senior buyers Ewels and Grant
Steve Ewels is leaving after six years at the helm of Tesco’s ethnic foods buying and more than a decade based at Tesco’s Cheshunt HQ.
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Scotmid Co-op suffers dip in sales and profits
Scotmid has posted a small drop in half-year sales and profits in what it described as a “challenging retail trading environment”.
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Aldi chalks up record growth as grocery middle ground shrinks
Aldi has notched up record sales growth in the latest grocery market share data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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Waitrose plots e-commerce depot for South London
Waitrose is planning to open a second e-commerce depot in Coulsdon, South London, in a move that will double the number of online delivery slots available to shoppers in London.
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Morrisons convenience estate breaks 50-store barrier
Morrisons’ convenience store estate has burst through the 50-store barrier.
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Tesco's Hudl tablet: In pictures
Tesco’s Hudl tablet, launching on 30 September, is a 7-inch Android device with a 1.5GHz processor and 16GB of memory.
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Tesco’s Hudl tablet launches with discounts for Clubcard holders
Tesco is to launch a 7-inch tablet computer called Hudl, amid a major marketing drive that will allow Clubcard holders to get their hands on one of the devices for potentially just £60-worth of points.
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George at Asda goes grunge for autumn-winter
Asda has embraced grunge and folk music for its new autumn and winter George clothing range.
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Sainsbury's hires Conversocial to help manage its social media
Sainsbury’s has become the latest supermarket to hire Conversocial to help manage its social media response to crises…
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Tesco has head start with Hudl
Like me, many of you have no doubt been glued to Robert Peston’s BBC series on the history of British retail…
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Tyrrells launches apple crisps in Sainsbury's
Tyrrells is entering the fruit snacks market with a range of apple crisps…
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The Simpsons fruit snacks go into Tesco stores
Humdinger, producer of The Fruit Factory brand, has launched The Simpsons fruit snacks.