more supermarket news & analysis – Page 894
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A chance to taste the difference
Sainsbury's initiative to launch a graduate gap year scheme called Taste The World to entice graduates into food science sounds like a good one. Travelling the world learning the food trade in exotic locations like South America and Australia is...
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A passage to India delayed, not cancelled
You would have thought Tesco would be hurting. With its aspirations plainly aimed at foreign shores, the news that Wal-Mart has successfully wooed Bharti Enterprises, beating Tesco into India, should have come as a blow. IGD estimates the Indian...
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Price Survey
Fresh fruit and vegetable prices continued to fluctuate in this first week of December. The cost of parsnips has risen by an average of 11% in the past seven days, and now rests at £1.82 for a kg. The largest increase took place at Asda,...
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Wal-Mart beats Tesco to India
Wal-Mart has beaten Tesco to India, linking up with Indian telecommunications giant Bharti Enterprises in a joint retail venture. Tesco had been one of the retailers, together with Wal-Mart and French retailer Carrefour, in line for the...
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Marks & Spencer in mixed signpost labelling approach
Marks & Spencer has finally nailed its colours to the mast in the front-of-pack signpost labelling debate, revealing plans to pilot, er, both. From January, a combination of traffic lights and Guideline Daily Amounts will be introduced to...
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Tesco planning biggest supermarket yet in UK
Tesco is seeking planning permission for the UK's biggest supermarket yet. It is set to apply to Croydon Council in south London for permission to increase its Purley Extra from 82,000 sq ft to 139,000 sq ft. Tesco's largest supermarket...
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Chelmsford latest to sign up to unity
Chelmsford Star Co-operative is to adopt the Co-operative Group's unifying fascia at its largest store as part of a revamp. The Essex-based society is to trial the fascia at its supermarket in Kings Road, Chelmsford, for three months from...
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Somerfield: 'We don't compete with big four'
Somerfield has told the Competition Commission it does not compete with the big four - a statement that reinforces its strategy of positioning itself as a local grocer and not a major supermarket chain. In its submission to the grocery...
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Asda's loss is India's gain ...
Asda talent has been lured away by Indian firm Reliance Retail. Peter Bracher, Asda's director of public affairs and corporate responsibility, left last week to become special advisor for Reliance's Fresh stores. He had been at Asda for...
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Co-op Group is OK with me
Sir; I was rather surprised to see that the Co-operative Group was being criticised for the content of its submissions to the Competition Commission grocery inquiry ('The Co-op bares its soul', 18 November, p6). All supermarket groups at...
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"Where King started by growing the top line, it's interesting that Rose started by hacking back costs"
Stuart Rose once famously slugged it out with Sir Philip Green outside his Oxford Street HQ. It was clearly not a battle the handsome M&S boss relished. But I fancy he is enjoying, rather more, his fight with Sainsbury's equally striking...
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The world's greatest food retailers
We all love food. We all love food shops. That's our business. But how often do we get to step back and fully appreciate the simple pleasure of shopping for food ourselves? Not often enough. So once again we're celebrating the best the...
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Try before you buy
Its slogan is 'Your neighbourhood grocery store' and its emphasis is on every day low prices, but you can't mistake this giant of natural food retailing for your local Tesco. The US's second biggest natural food retailer doesn't stock many...
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Asda starts a drive to reduce air miles
Asda is offering bagged potatoes that make a virtue of their local origins. All 79 of its eastern counties stores started stocking East Anglian new potatoes in late October. They will be available into next year and then from June...
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Climbing the ladder
How did you get where you are today? I started in the retail arena with the Co-op back in 1986 and then moved into sales with Mars Confectionery in 1989. I stayed on the sales side with Mars for over seven years and was then made a NAM. From...
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Sainsbury's is putting its money where its mouth is
I fully endorse Bill Jordan's views on the need to 'develop a sustainable supply chain that fuels growth in UK-grown organic food and reassure people of the integrity of British food' ('Give farmers incentives to guarantee organic supply',...
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In Brief: Bigger in UK beer; The Nun's clothes; Red nose in winter
Bigger in UK beer UK craft brewer Freeminer is preparing for a bigger role in UK beer next year with an investment that doubles its capacity. The brewery supplies the Co-operative Group with its Gold Miner and Honey Ale beers, as...
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The Co-op bares its soul
Below cost selling, price flexing and applying restrictive covenants to land. Typical of Tesco? Asda? Sainsbury's? No - it's the Co-operative Group. The society, which prides itself on its ethical approach to business, this week published...
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Toaster buyers get change from fiver as Asda extends its non food pricing lead
Asda has extended its lead over Tesco in the fight to be the UK's cheapest supermarket for non food items. The Grocer 33's latest non food report reveals that at £177.62, the cost of Tesco's 33-item shopping basket including clothes is...
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New electric vans to deliver Tesco goods
Tesco home-shoppers can expect deliveries by a new concept electric van next year after the chain bought 15 of the environmentally friendly vehicles for its dotcom service. The vans do not emit CO2 and are powered by a battery that can...