more supermarket news & analysis – Page 896
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Profile Revisited
It already faced Tesco. With Asda's arrival on the Northern Ireland scene, the Henderson Group faces another big, aggressive supermarket. And M&S also is doing well with its Simply Foods format. Yet Henderson, a wholesaler and retailer, is...
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Reader Survey
The wholesale sector is alive, kicking and growing, with key operators expecting sales and profit to be up this year compared to last, according to The Grocer's Big 30 poll this month. This is despite Asda meeting a vigorous response from...
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Online battle intensifies as Asda ramps up coverage
The battle for the online pound is on. This week, Asda disclosed details of its online rollout, first revealed in The Grocer in September, just days after Tesco announced plans to launch an online clothing trial parallel to its non food site,...
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Tesco Ireland aims to catch up with UK
Tesco Ireland is to build a national distribution centre at Donabate in County Dublin, at a cost of €70m. The centre, due to be in operation by next April, will have a handling capacity of one million cases of goods a week. It will manage...
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Attwood takes charge of Sainsbury's c-stores
Sainsbury's has appointed Mike Attwood as head of trading for convenience. He replaces Richard Lancaster, who last month was named as the new UK MD of discounter Netto from 2 January. Attwood has worked at Sainsbury's since 1975,...
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Q&A with Henri Henriques manager of the week
How long have you worked for Morrisons? I'm a real old timer. I joined Safeway more than 35 years ago and have been a store manager for the past 24. In that time I have managed eight stores mainly within the M25 area and opened two, including the...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
Waitrose's Marlow branch was just about to undergo a significant refit when we last spoke to manager Alex Hume this week a year ago. Twelve months on, and with the refit successfully completed, Hume views his next big challenge to be the...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Costcutter, Lodway, Bristol, One stop, Station Road, Horsham. Budgens, Tolworth, Surrey Spar, Amersham Road, Bucks. Tesco Express, Wellingborough Road, Northamptonshire. How they...
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Availability
Asda Robroyston, Glasgow. 1 There was no Stella for our shopper at this Asda store in Glasgow, which had sold out of all its 440ml cans in the pre-Bonfire Night rush. Meanwhile, a packaging overhaul also left the shelves bare of...
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Star order
Tesco.com was the clear winner of this quarter's Star Order Award for online shopping excellence. While our mystery web shopper was already registered with the system, this was the first time that she had ever attempted to do an online...
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"Asda and Ocado are targeting the grocery market. M&S is focusing on non food. And Tesco is sizing up, well, everything"
All hell broke loose on the internet shopping news front this week. Asda announced plans to hire 1,800 staff as it gears up its web-based operations, Sainsbury's took its online offering to Northern Ireland, and M&S declared that it was keen to...
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Morrisons enters collaborative era
Morrisons aims to sweeten its relationship with suppliers by rolling out a tool designed to improve transparency and communication in the supply chain. Speaking at the IGD supply chain summit, senior trading director Martyn Jones said the...
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M&S on a roll - without online
Marks & Spencer has shelved plans to get into online grocery as it believes it would make no money, despite rivals racing to offer bigger, better services. The retailer, which this week announced a 4.7% increase in food sales for the...
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Tesco backing S&A in ongoing worker row
Tesco and Sainbury's are standing by soft fruit grower S&A as it clashes again with unions. The Herefordshire strawberry growing co-op came under the spotlight earlier in the year after the TGWU received complaints from 200 migrant...
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Sainsbury's plans fruit and veg roadshows
Store managers and consumers need more education about fresh produce, Sainsbury's says. The retailer claims it sells more fresh produce per customer than competitors, and is launching initiatives to keep it that way. Staff in the...
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Asda just can't get enough MSC lines
Asda has complained that is is having difficulty getting hold of enough MSC fish. In line with the policy of its parent Wal-Mart, the chain pledged earlier this year to move all wild-caught supplies of fresh and frozen seafood to...
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In Brief: Sainsbury's cuts; Irish beef criticised; Goose quality
Sainsbury's cuts Sainsbury's has slashed the price of chicken breasts, Gressingham duck, salmon fillets, king prawns and sausages. The half price promotion is due to last for another two weeks. Irish beef...
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JS brings in organic port for Christmas
Sainsbury's has joined the small list of retailers stocking an organic port that it believes will attract consumers to the category this Christmas. Fonseca Terra Prima Organic Reserve Port is made from organic grapes. Historically,...
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Price Survey
A change in country of origin has sparked a dramatic increase in the price of red seedless grapes this week. The average price of a 1kg punnet has risen by an average of 11.8% with Tesco sporting the most significant increase of the six other...
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Wine awards slammed
Tesco has defended wine awards in the face of criticism from food and wine taster Martin Isark that they are nothing but meaningless, money-making schemes.Winemakers can pay up to £120 for entry to such competitions, knowing there is a...