more supermarket news & analysis – Page 715
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Asda launches green push with suppliers
Asda has launched a major environmental drive involving more than 70 of its leading suppliers.
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Ocado adds a new shopping tracker to site
Ocado has introduced a new order tracking function to its website to give shoppers a better idea of when their order will arrive.
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Scottish Excellence Awards sign up Asda
Asda has been unveiled as the retail category sponsor of this year’s Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards.
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Sainsbury's turns to new staffing tool
Sainsbury’s is set to roll out a new automated system that it claims will simplify the management of its 150,000 staff.
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Cottage cheese category boosted as Asda launches new snack pot
Asda has launched an innovative new cottage cheese format aimed at shoppers looking for a healthy lunchtime snack.
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco needs to listen... and learn
Tesco’s decision to accelerate the process of change to its core chain was a big surprise to the stock market.
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets are unavoidable... even for the wholesalers
At first glance, very little has changed in this year’s Big 30 wholesalers list. Booker is the stand-out, cash & carries are dominant.
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Comment & Opinion
Time's up for pack differentiation
The level of independents buying from multiples this Christmas increased by an order of magnitude, encouraged by a very evident relaxation of any quantity restrictions in many stores.
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Analysis & Features
The Carbon Trust: too slow-footed to save the planet?
Tesco has pulled out of the Trust’s CO2 scheme, but the industry had already been seeking more effective routes to sustainability.
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Grocer 33
Waitrose Newton Mearns, 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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Property chief Masters is latest exec to exit Asda
Asda retail development director Steve Masters is leaving the business, according to press reports.
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M&S lifestyle app hints at future of shopping
Marks & Spencer is bringing its food, lifestyle and fashion expertise to the nation’s living rooms by becoming the first UK retailer to launch an app on interactive television sets from Samsung.
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Tesco replaces Robbins as UK chief operating officer
Tesco has replaced Bob Robbins as UK chief operating officer. He will take on a new strategic role alongside UK boss Richard Brasher.
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Tesco frees up £450m with new store sale-and-leaseback
Tesco has announced the latest in a series of sale and leaseback arrangements designed to free up cash from its vast property portfolio.
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Tesco market share at lowest since May 2005
Tesco’s market share has dropped to its lowest point in almost seven years, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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Record festive sales for East of England Co-op
East of England Co-operative Society has reported a record festive period, with sales of £7.5m in the week leading up to Christmas.
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Analysis & Features
Supermarkets pile on promos to win post-Christmas pounds
Remember Philip Clarke’s words after those miserable Tesco Christmas numbers? “We backed off some of our promotional and couponing activity too early.”
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Asda banana trays to slash use of cardboard by 15 million kgs
Asda is set to reduce its cardboard usage by15 million kgs a year following a move to shelf-ready plastic trays for its bananas.
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Bracey exit tempers talk of an Ocado bid
The surprise announcement from Ocado this week that finance director Andrew Bracey was leaving has dampened speculation of a takeover bid.
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'Frustrated' Tesco ditches eco-labels
Tesco will no longer feature the Carbon Trust’s carbon reduction label on its products, claiming it is too time-consuming and expensive to justify.