more supermarket news & analysis – Page 904
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Asda The Shires Centre, Trowbridge, Wiltshire1 The Asda store in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was sold out of the 200g bag of Doritos corn chips when our shopper visited. The store also did not stock cheap own label butter and...
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Tesco, Asda join initiative to boost glass recycling market
Tesco and Asda have signed up to an initiative designed to reduce the amount of glass waste from the wine industry.The Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), which outlined proposals for its lightweighting initiative at the annual...
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Price Survey
Asda continues to outpace the competition and has delivered the cheapest shopping basket for the fifth week in a row, this time at £51.13. Asda was quite active with offers this week.The company had promotions on nine of the 33 items in this...
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Tesco was the cheapest store this week at £55.98. Tesco's win built on last week's second-placed finish and ended its long spell out of the top position.Asda dropped to second place this week after its five-week run in the top spot....
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Asda system designed to help kids buy 'green' food for lunch
Asda is to launch a payment card designed to help parents ensure their children don't spend their lunch money on junk food.The new Green Card is still at the development stage, but the plan is for parents to charge it Oyster Card-style...
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Tesco trials boost Subway's target
Subway, the US sandwich chain, is to open three trial concessions in Tesco stores in a move that will give it a foothold in one of the major UK multiples for the first time, The Grocer can reveal. The Tesco pilot, due to start in the next...
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Asda set to challenge JS, Tesco with national online roll-out
Asda is launching an offensive on Sainsbury's and Tesco's online market share with plans to take its service national from next year. Asda.com is currently serviced by 80 stores across the country. However, this will be increased to 100...
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United Co-op: sales up but tough times ahead
United Co-operatives' sales and profits rose in the first six months of the year, but the society faces a tough six months ahead in the face of intensifying competition in the market, according to its chief executive. Figures for the 26...
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Morrisons gauges online opportunity
Morrisons has tested an interactive version of its weekly Best Buys leaflet, in what looks like a tentative step towards expansion of its internet presence.The electronic flyer, produced by online marketing technology company Activepoint...
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Tesco promises to cut more prices in Ireland
Tesco is promising consumers in the Irish Republic that by early next year it will have cut the price of 10,000 food items previously covered by the groceries order. In a major advertising blitz, titled The Promise - The Proof, it claims...
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Sainsbury's signs up Tesco property head
Gaelle WalkerSainsbury's has appointed current Tesco property services director Neil Sachdev to the newly created role of commercial director. Sachdev's appointment is the fourth senior defection from Tesco to Sainsbury's in the past two...
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Austin lands logistics role at Morrisons
Morrisons has appointed Neal Austin as director oflogistics. He is set to start his role, which is a new one for the retailer, on 2 October, and will be reporting directly to David Hutchinson, Morrisons' manufacturing, warehouse and...
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Asda West Bridgford, Nottingham1 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store on Loughborough Road in West Bridgford, Nottingham said that the store looked "well stocked" and that staff were busy refilling shelves. However, she was...
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Brilliance at Bishopbriggs
The Bishopbriggs Morrisons on Kirkintilloch Road in Glasgow has won this week's Top Store award. Our mystery shopper there was impressed by the helpful and friendly staff. She noted that the managers made sure new checkouts were opened as soon...
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Sainsbury's off to good start for organic drive
The data for this week's Promotrack article was collected between 1 and 3 September, which was the start of the Organic Fortnight, as stated in last week's issue of The Grocer.One retailer that has taken the fortnight to heart is...
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Waitrose's UK farms get LEAF certification
Waitrose shoppers will be able to eat their greens with an easier conscience after the high-end food retailer announced it had raised the bar on environmental protection for its UK growers.In a first for the retail sector, all of...
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Asda pushes for exit from fisheries policy
Asda has joined calls for Britain's withdrawal from the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in order to protect the livelihoods of Scottish fishermen and preserve fish stocks in the North Sea.Gordon Maddan, regulatory affairs manager at Asda,...
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Asda trebles shelf space for organics
Asda has told The Grocer it is planning big changes to its dairy category following two major reviews.The shelf space for organic produce will be trebled with lines pulled together into a dedicated cabinet at the end of this month. A...
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Quick! Launch that self-heating soup
Food Brands Group has come up with a way to helptime-poor consumers - a self-heating soup. Called Mini Quick, the soup is available in spicy lentil and tomato flavours and offers consumers a hot product in just 40 seconds. It is in Tesco...
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Delisted supplier off to Commission
Ferndale Foods, the supplier controversially delisted by Asda last year, is to include comments on the relationship between suppliers and the major supermarkets in a submission to the Competition Commission.The company is due to go...