more supermarket news & analysis – Page 717
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News
Tesco lists Enrituals £1 laundry products
Tesco has rolled out a range of £1 laundry products from discount supplier Purity Global to 300 of its stores.
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Asda beefs up its fresh meat counter offering
Asda is looking to translate the success of its Butcher’s Selection brand in pre-packed meat to over-the-counter sales by rolling the brand out to its meat counters.
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Asda's senior reshuffle focuses on progression
Asda chief operating officer Judith McKenna has overhauled the retailer’s management team to get its senior executives to work “better together”.
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Shoppers rate Asda as most trusted supermarket in UK
Asda has long been known as the UK’s cheapest supermarket, but new research shows it’s also the most trusted on claims about price.
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Waitrose plans apps for mobile shopping
Waitrose is developing its first mobile apps for online grocery shopping.
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Co-op reaps benefits of stock control software
The Co-operative Group claims it has boosted monthly sales by up to £1m after introducing new software to improve availability.
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Profiles and QandAs
Gambling on a real point of difference
With his Merseyside-based L7 Village Market, Steve Jagota is taking on the multiples. And his ‘old-fashioned’ approach seems to be paying dividends.
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Comment & Opinion
Can you imagine an ad with Usain Bolt impersonating Philip Clarke?
Tesco’s Christmas bombshell is over a week old now, but the shock waves are likely to continue for some time.
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Comment & Opinion
Now's the time to inspire as well as promote
The one hard question grocery brands should be asking themselves is, ‘how do I get my brand back on to the shopping list?
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Comment & Opinion
Get the human factor back, Tesco
Amid the shock horror about mighty Tesco’s faltering sales, there was one particularly interesting feature.
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Comment & Opinion
Clarke must reignite 'only Tesco can' mantra
The varying perspectives on Tesco’s 2.6% drop in Christmas sales have piqued my interest.
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury's Burnley
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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Tesco targets Saudi Arabia as F&F goes global
Tesco has signed a deal to open 19 F&F clothing stores in Saudi Arabia in a franchise deal with Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Hokair & Co.
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Sainsbury's eyes a Tesco-style model for dairy payments
Sainsbury’s is looking to overhaul the way it pays its dairy farmers by moving to a model similar to Tesco’s - which calculates farmer payments based on cost of production.
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Tesco sneezes and the grocery trade catches a cold
News of Tesco’s performance prompted a sell-off by investors across food retail.
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Cameras roll as Asda looks to halve queues
Asda is rolling out a new queue management system it claims could almost halve the amount of time frustrated Brits spend waiting in line at the till.
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CK's begins switch to Nisa Local fascia
Welsh indie retailer CK’s Supermarkets has adopted the Nisa fascia to capitalise on the symbol group’s TV ad campaigns.
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Victimless? Shoplifting costs retailers £840m
The cost of retail crime soared by a third last year and, most worryingly for retailers, only a fraction was related to last summer’s riots.
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Analysis & Features
The signs aren't good for Tesco. What's to be done?
Philip Clarke this week admitted Tesco’s dire Christmas results reflected longstanding problems that need sorting - fast.
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Analysis & Features
Shifting Sands: what The Co-op's acquisition means
The Co-operative Group’s purchase of a 200-year-old independent has taken the trade aback. What happened - and what comes next?