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Falside Road twice pulled up for breaches in food hygiene
The investigation into the E.coli outbreak in Scotland is now focused on a single Morrisons store in Renfrewshire. The Outbreak Control Team initially investigated two Morrisons in Paisley as the potential source of the E.coli scare that has claimed...
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Asda pushes halal and Polish ranges
Asda is to dramatically increase its ambient ethnic food offer with the roll-out of hundreds of new Polish and halal lines.
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How I learned not to be a Luddite and love Tesco
The co-founder of Cook may have gone from Tesco basher to Tesco lover but he's not so sure about a business model focused obsessively on shareholder returns As someone who co-owns a fiercely independent food company based on principles pretty much...
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Smoke or mirrors in retrospective inquiry?
As the Competition Commission prepares to wade through an estimated 11 million emails, and thousands of phone calls, from Asda and Tesco and its suppliers, the inquiry appeared this week to have reached a pivotal moment. Has it found the smoking gun...
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the net widens
Every week, there are reports of yet another fish species in crisis because of overfishing. And every week, another retailer or supplier unveils plans to improve its sourcing strategy. Asda, Birds Eye and Young's Seafood are among many companies now...
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Tesco signals end to £2 chicken with price rise
Tesco has responded to widespread criticism of cheap chicken by raising the amount it pays its chicken farmers. It has agreed to pay chicken producers an extra 2p/kg - equivalent to a 4% increase - to help counter rising production costs. The move...
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Organic group won't work if price too low
Farmers have criticised Tesco's plans for a dedicated organic beef producer group on the ground it offers too low a price. Tesco has joined forces with key supplier the Chitty Food Group to create the Organic Beef Farmers Association in a bid to...
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Price Survey - 25th August 2007
It's just like old times in The Grocer 33 at the moment with Asda extending its run as the cheapest retailer to a third week. Asda provided a £40.68 basket, which was £1.39 cheaper than runner-up Tesco, although the rival retailers had the same...
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Chains ban staff from using Facebook site at their desks
Bosses at Britain's biggest three supermarket chains have banned office staff from accessing social networking site Facebook while at work. Senior executives at Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's have ordered IT teams to block access to the site as part of...
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In Brief: Lo leaves Sainsbury's; Asda restructure; Sharp joins SSMG; Minister appointed; SABMiller shake-up
Lo leaves Sainsbury's Sainsbury's head of corporate affairs Helen Lo has left the company after seven months in the role. She arrived at Sainsbury's from Unilever, where she was head of corporate social responsibility and sustainability for Unilever...
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Dobbies issues profits warning
Dobbies garden centre has issued a profit warning just five days after Tesco gained control of the 21-strong chain.The Scottish gardening group, in which Tesco now has a 53% stake, said rain had hit sales of garden furniture, plants and...
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Tesco increases market share
Tesco has increased its share of the grocery market to 31.8%, despite grocery market growth slowing to 3% in the three months to the end of August.According to TNS data market growth was down from a 6% high in May, due to a slowdown in...
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Killer bug found in Waitrose salmon
Waitrose has ordered a recall of two own-label salmon products after samples were found to contain the potentially fatal food poisoning bug listeria.The affected products - 115g Scottish smoked salmon parcels and 100g Scottish poached salmon...
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E.coli stores warned before about food hygiene
Morrisons was warned before about “poor food handling procedures” at two stores linked to an E.coli outbreak, it has emerged.Environmental health officers had drawn attention to more than 20 issues at the two supermarkets in Paisley, near...
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Tesco and Asda bullying claims investigated
The Competition Commission is investigating claims Tesco and Asda bullied suppliers into cutting their prices to finance their price wars.The Commission has ordered the supermarkets to hand over all internal emails, taped telephone...
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Opinion - "Isn't it amazing that supermarkets can achieve such low prices when material costs are rising and crops have been laid low by floods?"
Last week it was the £2 chicken from Asda. This week it was the price of cauliflowers (and fruit and veg generally) which the ONS linked directly to the fall in inflation, to just 1.9%. Memo from Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Peter Freeman,...
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New stores in India a boost for Waitrose
Waitrose's presence in India is set to receive a boost with retailer Hypercity's plans to open 15 new stores. The British supermarket chain currently supplies 200 own-label products to Hypercity's Mumbai hypermarket, which opened last year....
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Midcounties switches cards
Midcounties Co-operative has become the first society to join the Co-operative Group's new membership scheme. It has ditched its Superdividend card for the group's co-operative membership card, which was relaunched last September. Midcounties,...
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Local food makes its English debut in Tesco Express store
Regional food and drink manufacturers could be in line for a bonanza after Tesco began selling locally sourced products in a convenience store in England for the first time. A new Tesco Express store in Falmouth, Cornwall, is stocking 76...
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... as Parfetts muscles in on convenience with Local 4U
Parfetts Cash & Carry has unveiled its long-awaited debut in convenience retailing at a site bought last year to stop Tesco snapping it up. The wholesaler has officially launched the Local 4U concept at the company-owned site in New Mills, near...