more supermarket news & analysis – Page 885
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star order
WaitroseDeliver was the winner of this quarter's Star Order award for shopping excellence, knocking Tesco from the top spot. WaitroseDeliver impressed our shopper with high levels of customer service and all-round ease of use.Our mystery...
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still in the fight
?It's been a tough year for the top overseas and private equity-owned chains - none more so than Kwik Save. Since its split from Somerfield, it has endured the departure of four MDs, plummeting market share, shocking availability and speculation...
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Hi-tech line polishes the look of salad
A new, high-speed production system that eliminates the need for drying salads and enhances shelf life and appearance has been commissioned by Lancashire-based Salads to Go, which supplies The Co-operative Group with salad.A vacuum and...
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Availability
Asda Wembley2This store had run out of own-label quiche lorraine and Doritos Cool Original. Our shopper described staff as very friendly and they took him directly to an item when asked. There were a sufficient number of...
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Price Survey
Asda is the cheapest retailer for the second week in a row with a basket cost of £46.60.It managed to keep hold of the cheapest retailer title in The Grocer 33 pricing survey this week thanks to a half-price promotion on 8-packs of...
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John Lewis plans expansion
John Lewis Partnership, the parent company of Waitrose, is planning a 10-year expansion to double the size of its business and create 35,000 jobs.The group plans to increase its workforce from 65,000 to 100,000 by 2017 and double revenue...
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Whole Foods unveils slogan for UK assault
We've had Every Little Helps, Try Something New Today, More For You For Less, and More Reasons To Shop At Morrisons.And now we have It's Not Something We Do, It's Everything We Do - the new slogan adopted by Whole Foods Market, the US...
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Sainsbury's King made vice president of IGD
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King is to take up the vice president role at international food and grocery organisation IGD. King succeeds Alastair Sykes, chairman and chief executive of Nestlé UK and Ireland, who became IGD...
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Fairtrade importer names Bowes MD
Fairtrade fruit importer Agrofair has appointed a former Co-operative Group man as managing director. John Bowes spent 20 years at the Co-op and was chief general manager of strategy before he left to write about Fairtrade in...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedTesco Express Bradley Stoke, BristolMace Royal Avenue, BelfastBudgens Trowbridge, WiltshireBonjour Towcester Road, NorthamptonSpar Condorrat, CumbernauldHow they...
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Availability
Asda Patchway, Bristol2 This store had run out of loose closed-cup mushrooms and 4-packs of own-label croissants. Our shopper was hindered by shelf stackers and packing trolleys and there were insufficient checkouts open for the...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
This time a year ago the winner was Asda's store in Bearsden, Glasgow. Kelvin Mobbs ran the store, which ticked all the boxes on our shopper's list.One year on, Mobbs has left to be general manager of another Asda store in Clydebank....
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Is a bidding war now on the cards?
In contrast to many of my analytical peers, I actually think that a bid is indeed coming for Sainsbury's (though there hadn't been one as The Grocer went to press). Restructuring the balance sheet and running the business for cash should...
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Bogof's week
Just as a story about Tesco selling live turtles in China comes out, another supermarket gets in on the act but from a different angle. Asda is now talking turtle. It has teamed up with the Marine Conservation Society and fishermen in Sri Lanka...
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Retailers say... labelling does not affect sales
Meeting demands Kishor Patel Houghton Trading South East London?Our customers are expecting some kind of food labelling to come into force in the near future. There is a lot of awareness about healthy eating at the...
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Asda moves in on Corrie sponsorship
News that Asda is to descend on Coronation Street will have Dev, Rita and Ashley quaking in their boots.But the y need not fear for their shops - the retailer isn't planning a supermarket next to the Rovers Return . It is one ...
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Asda weighs in for fight
The UK's second-biggest supermarket and biggest wholesaler have lent their weight to The Grocer's Weigh it Up! campaign, now in its third week.Asda said it supported our efforts to force Ofcom to review the Nutrient Profiling Model (NPM) as...
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Aspatria rival close to Cumbria cheese deal
Building work on a 60,000 tonne cheese plant in Cumbria could begin in April after a breakthrough on milk supplies last week.The company behind the £60m plant, Partners in Cheese, has already secured support from Asda, which buys cheese...
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Sainsbury's backs DoH label scheme
Sainsbury's is the first retailer to sign up to the Department of Health's proposed guidelines on the labelling of own-label alcohol products. The voluntary guidelines, which aim to encourage sensible drinking, were created after...