more supermarket news & analysis – Page 657
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Co-op Bank on the defensive after Moody's downgrade
The Co-operative Banking Group has insisted it has strong funding profile and high levels of liquidity despite being downgraded to ‘junk’ status by Moody’s.
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Sainsbury's staff share £90m bonus pot
Sainsbury’s staff are to receive a share of £90m – the retailer’s largest ever bonus pot.
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Tesco kicks off exclusive content on Clubcard TV
Tesco has rolled out its first exclusive reality TV series featuring the “emotional journey” of a group of wannabe models, as it ramps up its Clubcard TV offering.
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Major UK retailers sign up to new action on food waste
Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Aldi and the big four multiples are among the retailers that have signed up to challenging new targets aimed at cutting food waste in the supply chain and at home.
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Tesco poised to launch Clubcard points bonanza
Tesco is hotly tipped to be about to launch a new Clubcard blitz, enabling customers to double their points on certain purchases.
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Morrisons claims ‘solid start’ to the year despite sales fall
Morrisons sales fell in the first quarter of the year, as talks with Ocado about an online operation dragged on.
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury’s in 2012: What did it do?
For Sainsbury’s, 2012 was a year of steady growth, Jubilee and Paralympics sponsorship, and the onward march of convenience.
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Sainsbury’s sales grow as it takes full control of Bank
Sainsbury’s has posted full-year like-for-like sales growth of 1.8% and its highest market share for a decade.
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M&S rolls out contactless payments nationwide
Marks & Spencer has installed contactless payment in nearly all its UK stores.
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Relaunched Tamdhu whisky heads to Waitrose
Whisky from a distillery that shut three years ago as the economy flattened Scotch sales rolls into Waitrose under new ownership this week.
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Online tool to put the cool into cutting CO2
Farmers supplying Tesco have become the first to use a new online tool to help producers slash carbon emissions…
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Nutmeg clothing range is a success for Morrisons
Sales of Morrisons’ Nutmeg children’s clothing range have beaten expectations for the first month of trading…
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Tesco tells suppliers: 'we've been too tough'
Tesco has called for a new era of closer co-operation with suppliers after admitting it had been too confrontational…
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Asda to free up big box space for community groups
Asda has revealed radical plans to give space in its supermarkets to community projects…
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Comment & Opinion
Retailers and brands must work together on experience
Tesco’s results and confirmation it is exiting the US underscored the degree to which it had underinvested in Britain…
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Morrisons' Steak Bar fixtures lift sales 7%
Morrisons has increased steak sales by 7% following the introduction of a new Steak Bar area in some of its stores…
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Comment & Opinion
M&S, Tesco, Morrisons - how the mighty have fallen
In our industry we have three big retailers who once could do no wrong and are now struggling…
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury's leads the way as mults increase promotions
As the freezing conditions over Easter finally receded, there’s no sign of the price war thawing…
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Waitrose pledges to cut packaging in sustainability drive
Waitrose will halve its packaging by 2016 compared with 2005, and have all fish independently certified as sustainable, it announced today in a series of pledges.
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Sainsbury’s asks shoppers to nominate local charities for stores
Sainsbury’s has kicked off a search for local charities for its stores to support.