more supermarket news & analysis – Page 846
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What the papers said - 23rd February 2008
Asda is launching Income Tracker, a monthly barometer of the nation's finances, to highlight the importance of offering its shoppers low prices. In the Daily Mail, Asda chief executive Andy Bond said it would "burst the myth" that value...
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Can the new ombudsman bring discipline to supermarkets?
The ombudsman is coming. As well as strengthening the Supermarkets Code of Practice, outlawing retailers from making retrospective changes to agreed terms,the Competition Commission has proposed introducing a third party to adjudicate in...
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M&S: we will buy out-of-season lamb
M&S has committed to buying British lamb out of season provided farmers can guarantee quality.
Chief executive Stuart Rose made the pledge at the NFU conference after he was challenged on M&S’s policy of buying New Zealand lamb to fill… -
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Asda launches Brazilian limes
Asda has launched Fairtrade limes from Brazil for Fairtrade Fortnight.The Brazilian limes are in Asda stores nationwide from this week and will be available until the end of May. There will then be a gap in availability before Egyptian...
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Red-fleshed apple is 'new superfruit'
Sainsbury's is hoping to have unearthed the next superfruit after a scouting trip to Switzerland unearthed a new variety of red-fleshed apple.The variety, which is yet to be named, has very high levels of antioxidants, which can help...
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In Brief: Red banana; Fury with Brussels; Dried fruit bought
Red banana Morrisons has launched a range of Central American red bananas in its stores nationwide. The red-skinned fruit are smaller and plumper than their yellow cousins, and have a sweet raspberry taste. Fury with Brussels The Fresh Produce...
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Tesco issues warning over price fix inquiry
Tesco has warned that the inquiry into the alleged fixing of dairy prices may put retailers off helping farmers in future.Tesco has continued to protest its innocence to the Office of Fair Trading , but the consequences of the...
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McKeith's healthy line goes into Asda
Diet guru Gillian McKeith is launching what she claims is the healthiest food and drink range on the market into Asda this April. Ambitious plans have been set out to create a £40m brand in two years. The range includes cereal bars,...
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Celeb chef gets behind Glorious! chilled soups
Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White is putting his weight behind a new chilled range of soups from food and beverage company Conival. Launched under a new brand - Glorious! - the soups are rolling into 375 Morrisons stores from this month....
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Price Survey - 23rd February 2008
Morrisons came close to hijacking Asda's plans of claiming a third week as cheapest retailer but it did not make quite enough price cuts. Morrisons' £44.14 basket was just 16p more expensive than Asda's, and low enough to knock Tesco back into third...
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Sainsbury's to open first GP surgery
Sainsbury is planning to open the first supermarket GP centre at its store in Heaton Park, Manchester.As part of the pilot scheme, the surgery, staffed by three doctors, will offer appointments on Monday and Thursday evenings and for four...
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No Catch in administration
Organic cod supplier No Catch has fallen into administration.The business, which has listings in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and independent retailers, went into administration yesterday, with debts of £40m, according to the Financial...
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Store visit - The English Grocer
Established: May 2007Peter Durose used to oversee sales of more than £2bn a year as head of fresh produce at Tesco. But last April he gave up his £250,000 salary to set up fine food boutique The English Grocer in his home town of...
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M&S to make suppliers pay for 'abnormally high waste'
Marks & Spencer is to charge its food suppliers for product wastage under its new Project Genesis trading terms.A document outlining the details of the changes, obtained by The Grocer, says M&S will order suppliers to help pay for...
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Tesco's turn to judge rising new talent
Tesco is to star in a new TV show that will lay bare the work that goes on behind new product development.Breaking into Tesco, a six-part series to air on Five, will follow 20 contestants, drawn from the general public, who will compete...
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Tesco scraps plan for huge Purley store
Tesco has abandoned plans to create what would have been Britain's biggest supermarket because of the cost and complications associated with changing the layout of a nearby road.The retailer recently began the design process to extend...
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Government urged to work more closely with retailers
Strategies to combat obesity, waste and climate change are doomed to fail unless government can work with big supermarket chains, claims a leading policy think tank.In Green, Healthy and Fair, a report published today (Saturday), the...
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Newby and Ingle key to Netto's expansion
Discounter Netto has brought in former Sainsbury's manager Paul Newby as store operations director to help reposition the chain as a mainstream supermarket.Netto managing director Richard Lancaster has appointed his former Sainsbury's...
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Welford at helm of Somerfield buying
Somerfield has promoted Guy Welford to head of buying in the convenience chilled category. Welford has been buyer for in-store bakery, pre-packed cheese, butters, spreads & margarines, but his most recent role was as buyer for milk,...
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Sainsbury's defies the data - Q&A and Availability
No retailer is less suited to the East Sussex town of Newhaven than Sainsbury's, according to CACI data, but store manager Tim Maginnis has instilled real competitive spirit in his staff and they reaped the rewards with this week's service award....