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Price Survey
Another batch of unbeatable prices has widened the gap between Asda and its rivals as it marks its third consecutive week as cheapest retailer.Once again Tesco came closest to matching its total - but Asda's winning basket was a...
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Retailers plan national staff blacklist
Retailers have joined forces to create a national database that will blacklist staff for stealing, forgery and fraud.HMV, Harrods, Littlewoods, Mothercare and Selfridges have signed up to the scheme, and Asda will take part if Sainsbury's...
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M&S starts carrier bag charge
Marks & Spencer's customers will be charged 5p for a carrier bag in its food stores from today.The retailer has been gearing up for today's carrier bag charge across all of its food stores for the past month and claims to have handed out...
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Sainsbury's to ditch paper for Talkmans
Sainsbury's claims that accuracy of its stock picking has improved to 99.99%, after ditching paper picking lists for voice technology.The chain, which has in the past struggled with its supply chain and four years ago had to write off...
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One Stop deal as P&H boosts chilled ranges
Palmer & Harvey McLane, the UK's biggest wholesaler, has won a contract to supply Tesco's c-store business One Stop with chilled lines, The Grocer can reveal.The move marks a major expansion of P&H's chilled offer in the week it also...
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A family affair wins the day - Q&A and Avalibility
After an absence of four months, Tesco has won our Top Store award thanks to the family appeal and perfect availability at its Chorley branch in Lancashire. The 80,000 sq ft Tesco Extra boasted excellent customer service with floor staff and...
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Short-termism will wreck quality meat production
Leading retailers need a strategy - and quick - to deal with structural changes in supply chains if quality British meat supply is to surviveOur three largest retailers - Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's - refuse to tell The Grocer whether...
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comment, What the papers said - 03rd May 2008
? Tesco is launching a loft insulation service next month that could pave the way for the retailer to enter other areas of the home improvements business, the Sunday Express reported. According to the paper, Tesco would undercut competitors by...
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Future forward for Freeman
It's not over, of course. The fat lady hasn't sung, there's an ombudsman to appoint, a GSCOP to write, retailers still have to give undertakings and everyone from the ACS to Tesco has two months to appeal. But after 722 days the Competition...
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Eastern Med and Caribbean are latest celeb chef ranges
The trend for celebrity food ranges is alive and kicking. Ethnic lines from Saturday Kitchen chef Silvena Rowe and 80s kids' TV star Floella Benjamin will hit shelves this month.Rowe has joined forces with Waitrose to create Delicatezze,...
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Indian restaurant chain enters retail
A Leicestershire Indian restaurant chain is launching a range of frozen ready meals in Asda this month.The family-owned business set up The Tiffin Food Company to develop the eight-strong curry brand following customer...
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Price Survey - 03 May 2008
Asda snatched the cheapest retailer title back from Morrisons as the price gap between them and the other retailers widened this week. Asda climbed to top spot with a £46.73 basket, £3.78 cheaper than the third most expensive retailer, Tesco,...
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PepsiCo acquires V Water
PepsiCo has acquired vitamin water brand V Water in a deal thought to be worth £10m.The brand, which has six flavours, was set up in 2004 by Walter Faulstroh and Chris Coleridge and is sold in Waitrose, Ocado, Wholefoods Market, BP and...
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M&S plans online service to shake off top-up shop image
Marks & Spencer plans to develop a full online food delivery service, its commercial director of food has revealed.During a speech in which he sensationally branded the retailer "complacent" and "fat", Jim Waller said online was "the way...
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Sainsbury's asks staff to help it generate £1bn extra sales
Sainsbury's is undertaking a massive customer loyalty drive in a bid to increase its sales by £1bn, The Grocer can reveal.The retailer has asked its staff to brainstorm ways in which it can get customers to keep returning to its stores....
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Morrisons takes a swipe at pay fiddles
Morrisons is installing a new clocking-in swipe card system in a move that will cut administration costs and stop staff claiming pay for extra hours not worked. The new system, from Autotime Solutions, which cost £1m, will mean all 375...
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Suppliers fear being left in limbo by sale of Somerfield
Somerfield suppliers are concerned they could lose business if the 900-store supermarket chain is sold.The Co-operative Group revealed last week it was in "serious discussions" to buy Somerfield and hoped to secure a deal by the summer....
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Co-op plans 400 new stores within the next three years
The Co-operative Group, which is currently in exclusive talks to buy Somerfield, has set out ambitious plans to open 400 new stores in the next three years. Speaking exclusively to The Grocer, Tim Hurrell, head of food retail designate...
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Midcounties Co-op profits soar by 11%
Midcounties Co-operative Society has reported an 11% increase in trading profit to £12m on sales up 20% to £712m for the year to 31 January.The figures were boosted by last year's purchase of Stars News Shops, Rusts and Chalfont...
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Morrisons pulls off a hat-trick
Morrisons has clinched the Top Store award for a second week thanks to a faultless performance from its ambitious Dukinfield branch in Cheshire. While the other stores floundered with poor checkout service, spilt milk and shaky availability, the...