more supermarket news & analysis – Page 701
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Grocer 33
Tesco's, St Rollox Business Park, Glasgow
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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News
Tesco own-label overhaul moves on to ready meals
Tesco is overhauling its line-up of ready meals in the latest major change to its own-label offer.
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Which? wants OFT probe on 'dodgy' supermarket pricing
Which? has called on the Office of Fair Trading to investigate what it called the “dodgy pricing tactics” of Britain’s supermarkets.
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Own-label NPD overtakes brands for first time
Launches of own-label products overtook those of branded lines for the first time last year.
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A whole wild Alaskan salmon for sale at £2
First, there was the £2 chicken. Now Asda has attracted the ire of food campaigners by offering shoppers a £2 whole Wild Alaskan salmon.
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Analysis & Features
Are hypermarkets dead in the water?
Three multiples have gone cold on the format, but Sainsbury’s and market analysts still see plenty of potential for hypermarkets.
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Comment & Opinion
Have we reached a historic moment when supermarkets start to shrink?
Ever since supermarkets were first invented, they have grown larger and more all-encompassing.
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Clippy's seals Marmachilli Ocado listing
Jam maker Clippy’s has extended distribution of its new Marmachilli marmalade into Ocado.
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Genius alters recipe as its sales growth stalls
Genius is introducing a new recipe for its gluten-free bread after coming under increasing pressure from branded and own-label rivals.
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Ex-Corrie star Wilson gets a break in Asda
First Alex James, now ex-Corrie star Sean Wilson - Asda is giving another celebrity cheesemaker a shot at the big time…
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Tesco refreshes yoghurt drinks with multivitamin-led overhaul
Tesco has boosted its yoghurt drinks range with a raft of new variants, including a first-to-market multivitamin dairy drink.
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Tesco to slash exec bonuses
Tesco has revealed plans to slash the bonuses of its 5,000 highest-paid managers as part of activity to spread the impact of its recent rollercoaster results.
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Retailers urged to prepare for online boom
The UK leaves the rest of Europe behind when it comes to shopping online, according to the president of Unilever Europe, Jan Zijderveld.
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Sainsbury's and Majestic optimise sites for mobiles
Sainsbury’s has launched a mobile optimised version of its grocery shopping website.
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City news 19 May 2012
Already knocked-back by the prospect of the ‘pasty tax’, Greggs shares were hit this week after the wettest April for a century hit high street sales.
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World news 19 May 2012
Walmart is being sued for $1m after a teenage shopper hijacked the in-store PA system and announced: “Attention Walmart customers: all black people must leave the store.”
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Convenience sector in growth
The convenience sector is in growth for the first time in a decade, but it’s supermarket chains and symbol groups that are driving this…
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Demographic profiling at George
Asda is deploying a new system to predict which items of George clothing will prove most popular in its individual stores
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G's takes Fresh & Naked into tomatoes, peppers and cukes
Salad supplier G’s Fresh is pushing further into branded produce with the addition of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers to its Fresh & Naked brand.
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Tesco stocks micro leaves
Tesco has boosted the foodie appeal of its fresh produce section with the addition of ‘micro leaves’.