more supermarket news & analysis – Page 704
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Sainsbury’s revamp to making downloading music easier
Sainsbury’s has revamped and rebranded its music download service as ‘Downloading Made Easy’.
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Morrisons overhauls own-label sausage roster
Morrisons is revamping its own-label sausage range, adding 15 new sausages and improving the quality of a further 27 lines.
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Asda gets a taste for South African sausage
Asda is trialling boerewors – a traditional South African sausage – in 50 stores, as it looks to boost its range of South African foods.
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Fish finger the ‘everyday hero’ of Tesco's TV fightback
Tesco is hitting back at its rivals – armed with a fish finger sandwich and a fistful of British-grown spuds.
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Potato corruption trial kicks off with two guilty pleas
A major corruption case in the potato industry has kicked off with guilty pleas from a former Sainsbury’s buyer and a former executive at potato supplier Greenvale.
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Asda overtakes Tesco on entertainment sales
Asda was the leading supermarket retailer of entertainment products in the first quarter of this year, following a slump in Tesco’s market share.
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The Co-op cuts ties with exporters over Palestine links
The Co-operative Group has ceased business with four companies that export produce from illegal Israeli settlements.
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Analysis & Features
Oil spike and drought push up prices
In the month that prices at the petrol pumps soared, the supermarkets pushed through another round of price increases…
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Comment & Opinion
Developments may leave investors worse off
The UK supermarket industry has entered a phase of development where existing stores are the battlefield.
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Carrefour watches the weather
Carrefour has teamed up with weather risk management specialists Metnext to factor weather data into its sales forecasts.
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Carrefour's one-queue trial
A single queue might work in a Post Office or M&S Simply Food, but a large supermarket?
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Asda stores to get electric car chargers
As soaring fuel prices continue to dominate the headlines, Asda is looking to offer its customers an alternative - by pledging to install electric car charging points at all of its stores by the end of the year.
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Tesco focuses on quality message with new campaign
Tesco is to retreat from the supermarket price war with a marketing strategy to improve its reputation for quality.
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New web and multichannel boss at Waitrose
Waitrose has promoted Alex Murray, the head of its online commercial trading team, to manager of web and multichannel development.
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Longley Farm fills Sainsbury's cottage cheese gap
Cottage cheese manufacturer Longley Farm has reported a 500% uplift in sales…
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Heston by Waitrose fresh fish
Waitrose has extended its Heston by Waitrose portfolio into fresh fish, with a new sea bass fillets and samphire product.
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Wahaca rolls out spicy sauces
Mexican restaurant brand Wahaca has expanded into retail with a range of spicy sauces.
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Comment & Opinion
Comparing food or fighter jets? I know which is more useful for kids
It’s five years since The Grocer first ‘discovered’ EdStat, a children’s card game, based on Top Trumps, in which nutritional data about leading food and drink products is ‘trumped’.
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Analysis & Features
'Tuesday 1.30pm is best time to bag a buyer'
With buyers notoriously hard to meet, how can suppliers win and then keep a listing? A Grocer masterclass heard from the experts.
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Angel Delight ice cream for Tesco
Angel Delight’s ice cream mixes - launched last year exclusively on Facebook - have made the leap onto supermarket shelves.