more supermarket news & analysis – Page 862
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Why food scares have got a whole lot scarier
At around 8pm on Monday 13 August, Marc Bolland was called back to the office. The news was serious. There had been an E.coli outbreak in Scotland and two Morrisons stores were under suspicion. His team swiftly swung into action, firing off...
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Sainsbury's works to boost UK organic crop
Sainsbury's has set up an organic orchard in a bid to slash its reliance on imported apples. The four-hectare orchard, which has been developed with Sainsbury's apple supplier Orchard World and grower Peter Hall, in Marden, Kent, has been...
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White sweetcorn arrives in UK chain
Sainsbury’s has become the first supermarket to sell home-grown white sweetcorn, introducing it into its Taste the Difference range.
The corn, which is usually only grown in the US, is being cultivated on 50 acres in Enfield, north… -
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Price Survey - 8th September 2007
It's a case of five weeks and not out for Asda, which has chalked up its fifth consecutive week as the cheapest retailer. Asda's £35.32 basket contained five of the cheapest items on the list, although it undercut Morrisons on the loose apples, Hula...
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New clothing boss at Asda
Asda has named Anthony Thompson as managing director of its clothing brand George.Thompson will take up the role on 17 September, joining Asda from Marks & Spencer where he was retail director.He replaces Angela Spindler who quit the...
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In Brief: Closer to a deal; Sunday lobbying; Slave labour slur
Closer to a deal Sainsbury's is believed to be closer to agreeing to open its books to bidder Delta Two after the Qatari-back fund pledged to raise the equity element of its £10.6bn offer. Sunday lobbying Asda is to lobby the government again over...
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Tesco may have to remove extension
Tesco has become embroiled in another embarrassing planning battle just weeks before the Competition Commission publishes the provisional findings of its groceries inquiry.An extension to the Bury St Edmunds store may have to be pulled...
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Southern rolls out deli concession
Southern Co-operatives is to expand an in-store tie-up with specialist retailer The Hampshire Delicatessen to four further supermarkets.The independent deli already has a concession in Southern Co-op's Wickham store, set up 18 months ago...
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Three big hitters head Sainsbury's c-store ops
Sainsbury's has appointed three regional MDs in the latest phase of its convenience operation restructure.Sainsbury's head of convenience Lawrence Christensen announced in May that the Jacksons and Bells operations were to be integrated...
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Eastbourne's shining example - Q&A and Availability
Although this summer is likely to be remembered as a washout, stores located in English seaside resorts aren't letting it dampen their spirits, with Morrisons in Southend-on-Sea scooping the award in the previous issue and Waitrose on Eastbourne's...
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star order - Tesco
The winner of this quarter's Star Order award for shopping excellence is Tesco.com, which replaces Ocado as The Grocer's top online retailer. Our Tesco.com shopper said the website was simple to navigate with clear instructions on how to process the...
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What the papers said - 1st September 2007
Tesco is adding thousands of new products to its Tesco Direct website. According to the Mail on Sunday, the retailer is increasing pressure on rivals such as Argos by launching a new 1,000-page catalogue next month. Products will include...
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Tesco's 16% fall is not justified
The stock market is now valuing Tesco as an average company. It is anything but. So why has its share price fallen 16% in recent months?In these troubled times for the stock market it's surprising that the industry bellwether, Tesco, has...
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Tesco's 2020 vision
Will consumers trust big business? Will the world economy go bust? Will multi-storey car parks be turned into allotments? There's no need to spell out how invaluable being able to accurately forecast how the world will look in 15 years...
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Escaping the traps of trade investment
A llegations of unreasonable retrospective pricing by Asda and Tesco have brought trade promotion practices back into the spotlight, yet fear of reprisals means suppliers are unlikely to complain publicly. A new survey from Grant...
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Price Survey - 1st September 2007
Despite a raft of price hikes, Asda has managed to extend its run of cheapest retailer to a fourth consecutive week. Asda's £59.10 basket total is a significant £1.56 less than the next-cheapest retailer Morrisons. Asda provided the lowest-priced...
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Delta Two closing in on Sainsbury
Quatari-backed investment company Delta Two has offered to increase the proportion of equity in its £10.6bn bid for the supermarket giant, after weeks of negotiation threatened to end in stalemate.More meetings are scheduled between the two...
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Retailers face animal rights threat
Thousands of tubes of Savlon have been removed from the shelves of Tesco, Boots and Superdrug after The Animal Rights Militia claimed they had injected a number of the products with bleach.The group posted an internet message stating...
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Hot topic - somehow Tesco is able to appeal simultaneously to ethical and cost-conscious shoppers
Raw material prices are rising fast, and the British farming lobby has done a superb job mobilising consumer and political support. Gordon Brown has instructed retailers not to take advantage of foot and mouth. And, in a move that demonstrates how...
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Asda's boast of growth accelerating ahead of rivals backed by latest data
Andy Bond's boast that Asda has been outperforming its rivals was backed up by TNS Worldpanel and Nielsen figures published this week. Asda was ahead of the pack with sales up 6% in the 12 weeks to 11 August, according to Nielsen. Sales growth at...