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Sainsbury's grows its freehold estate
Sainsbury's has secured the freehold rights to one of its supermarkets this week in a further rebuff to property entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz's attempts to split the company into an opco/propco operation.Last month it rejected the 5%...
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Guide to young street speak is so good it's bad
"Hey homeboy, this rocket and watercress salad is safe blood, you get me?" Mrs Bogof said to me the other day in the salad aisles of Tesco. While my wife has been known to get down with the kids (her high score on Grand Theft Auto is...
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Sainsbury's says waterbed effect theory is 'contrived'
Sainsbury's has rubbished the Association of Convenience Stores claims of a 'waterbed effect' in its latest submission to the Competition Commission's grocery inquiry.The ACS argues that smaller buyers such as wholesalers and small...
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Tesco looks to Orkney and Shetland
Tesco is targeting one of the last remaining postcode areas in the UK without one of its stores. The supermarket is looking at prospective sites in Orkney and Shetland, which, along with the Outer Hebrides and Harrogate, are the only...
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Tesco reaches out to new US shoppers with first ever blog
Tesco has become the first of the big four supermarkets to turn to blogging in a bid to win over potential customers across the pond. Marketing director for the US operation Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Simon Uwins has launched his...
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A most constructive attitude - Q&A and Availability
A section of the car-park is closed off, various products are not in their usual places and there are construction workers in the aisles. Despite undergoing a major refurbishment, the Asda store in Taunton, Somerset, wins our Top Store of the week...
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Uncovering the truth about excess packaging concerns
An initiative that encouraged shoppers to return examples of excess packaging to Asda stores has provided useful information on how the public feels about the issueOur customers tell us they don't want to see their spuds strangled in...
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Will refinance plan put end to break-up speculation?
Ask anyone in the City what they think is going on at Somerfield and you get one answer: "It's up for sale." As a venture-backed business this is no surprise, but sources close to Somerfield have suggested a break up has become a strong...
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Hilton stake is acquired by Goodman
Irish beef baron Larry Goodman has acquired a 5% stake in the recently floated Hilton Food Group, one of Tesco's largest beef suppliers. His company, Irish Food Processors, spent around £5.5m on the deal but, with shares in just 50% of...
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Farmers protest over NZ lamb sale at M&S
Irish sheep farmers have attacked Marks & Spencer for stocking New Zealand lamb at a time when their income is plummeting.More than 200 angry Irish farmers protested outside Marks & Spencer's flagship store on Dublin's Grafton Street to...
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More action looms as strike fails to resolve depot dispute
Tesco was bracing itself for further strike action as The Grocer went to press. Drivers are due to stage a 24-hour strike at Tesco's Livingston depot in Scotland on Tuesday little more than a week after the T&G's last three-day strike....
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Price Survey - 2nd June 2007
Tesco has only just stopped Sainsbury's from becoming our cheapest retailer for the second week in a row. Tesco's £38.74 basket was only 4p less than Sainsbury's but it did itself a huge favour with the beef steak mince that was £1.58 less than last...
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Milk falls foul ofad rules
The absurdity of the FSA's Nutrient Profiling Model was thrown into sharp relief again this week when it emerged Asda had been forced to drop whole milk from its latest TV adverts because it breaches Ofcom's rules on advertising food to...
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Asda is cheapest chain for decade
Asda chief executive Andy Bond and his colleagues will be celebrating this weekend after being crowned Britain's cheapest supermarket for an amazing tenth year running.The Leeds-based retailer provided the cheapest shopping list for 32...
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Wholesaler going green to see off Tesco Wick challenge
A Scottish Highlands wholesaler that lost a quarter of its staff following the arrival of a Tesco store hailed as 'Britain's greenest supermarket', in Wick, has responded in style. Adding a wind turbine to a recently installed solar...
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Waitrose lays down ethical standards
Waitrose is to raise the bar in ethical trading by issuing suppliers with a new responsible sourcing manual.The 80-page Responsible Sourcing Workbook will be sent to more than 700 of the retailer's key own-label suppliers as it attempts...
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Merged co-op names food retail succession
Two leading figures in the co-operative movement are to bow out after the proposed merger between the Co-operative Group and United Co-operatives was rubberstamped by members of the two societies this week.Guy McCracken, chief executive...
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Military precision by Morrisons - Q&A and Availability
Historically, the British Army and The Grocer have shared few common interests, but in the appreciation of the Warminster branch of Morrisons, Wiltshire, we see eye to eye, it seems. The 20,000 sq ft outlet has achieved our Top Store award through...
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Asda changes mind and sells monkfish
Monkfish is set to return to Asda shelves just three months after the supermarket removed it because it was not considered a sustainably caught species.Scottish fishermen hailed the u-turn as a victory and a vote of confidence in the way...
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A brand first from Branston
Potato supplier Branston has launched the first potato brand in Tesco under The Real Potato Co banner.Branston will initially supply two exclusive new varieties - Bellini and Piccolo - to 250 Tesco stores, with hopes of a wider rollout...