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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...
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Supermarkets are bullying Scots suppliers, inquiry told
Supermarkets north of the border are bullying suppliers into making lump sum payments and routinely selling products below cost in a bid to squeeze the competition, the Competition Commission heard in Edinburgh this week. The Commission...
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"Behind the scenes at the Labour Party conference there was the faintest whiff of optimism"
Are we in the middle of the two weeks that will change the face of the world - or at least of planet grocery? This week Waitrose, Nisa-Today's and the ACS put their cases to the Competition Commission in its investigation into the market. Next...
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Price Survey
Asda is the cheapest supermarket for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a basket price of £55.08. Our results also show that while Somerfield has fallen back down to sixth place on our table, Tesco has still not been able to claw...
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Bogof's week
What better than a large glass of chilled wine now that the weather has turned sunnier once again? Not so easy to get, however, if you happen to shop at Tesco in Shoreham, as my colleague found this week. She asked a member of staff if the store...
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Asda evicts clothing recyclers from car parks
Asda evicts clothing recyclers from car parksAsda has evicted a network of clothing recyclers from its car parks following allegations that they were not registered charities.The retailer's solicitors wrote to Planet Aid, a...
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M&S to add electrical departments to 13 stores
M&S to add electrical departments to 13 storesMarks & Spencer is to add electrical departments to 13 of its largest stores in a bid to take on Tesco and specialist retailers.M&S has been trialling the sale of a small range of...
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Multiples jostle for spotlight at start of Organic Fortnight
Organic Fortnight kicked off this weekend with the major retailers furiously trying to outshine their rivals' organic credentials. Tesco said one in three of its shoppers now regularly put at least one organic item into their...
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Sainsbury's £1bn target for Taste the Difference range
Sainsbury's aims to build its Taste the Difference label into a £1bn sub-brand by March 2009 as it increases its focus on own label across all categories. The move would mean that Taste the Difference would match the current value of...
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Tesco turns up heat on queue control
Tesco is testing infrared queue management technology in nine London Metro stores - and could use it to tell consumers how long they will have to wait before being served. Over the past year the retailer has rolled out the hi-tech...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
Sainsbury's in Ripon, North Yorkshire, won The Grocer 33 Top Store Award this time last year, when duty manager Diane Hayes received the award on behalf of store manager Nick Alcock. Alcock retired to be replaced by Malcom Mitchell, who...
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Q&A with Paul Chapman Manager of the Week
Have you have won this award before? Yes, I was the manager here when we won the award last June. We were trading as a Safeway back then, but the store has since been refitted and rebadged under the Morrisons brand. In fact, I think it is 12… -
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Second opinion The industry needs to come together in a sincere attempt to tackle sustainability and reduce packaging waste, says Jack Sinclair
Andy Bond, head of Asda, has called for a co-ordinated industry approach to sustainability and is reported to be inviting all the chief executives of the UK's manufacturers and retailers to a conference to discuss the issues and agree a way...
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Can the new buying alliance really work?
Did Martin Beaumont, chief executive of the Co-operative Group, know something when he chaired the ACS conference in Blackpool several years ago and said he foresaw more upstream collaboration between independent retailers? Last week's news that...
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Stirred not shaken
Where is the Andy Bond who delivered "that speech" at IGD's annual convention last October? Since gamely shouldering Asda's share of the blame for the industry's "bland, amorphous, sameness", the dynamic leader that these comments seemed to...
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waitrose, bloomsbury
Emerge blinking from the bowels of Russell Square underground station in central London and you'll find yourself at the Brunswick - the retail and accommodation complex that has become an icon of 1960s architecture and is now Grade II...
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Price-cuts pledgeby Asda
Asda boss Andy Bond has reinforced his commitment to aggressive price cutting and rubbished suggestions that his sales-led recovery programme is being driven at the expense of profits.In an exclusive interview with The Grocer ahead of...
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Mushroom supply hit
Sainsbury's has been hit by a problem with its mushroom supplies over the past ten days, leading to 'out of stock' messages at stores across the country. A spokeswoman said: "There has been a supplier problem caused by weather in...
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Five new pâté lines in Tesco
Scottish premier pâté producer Castle MacLellan has launched five new lines in Tesco deli counters north of the Border. The Kirkcudbright supplier has used local ingredients in the range, which comprises Brussels, Ardennes, Duck Parfait...
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Tesco Direct operation more than a decade in the making
Tesco's £30m venture into the non food home shopping market had been in the planning stages for more than a decade before its launch this week, The Grocer can reveal. The long-awaited unveiling comes as Tesco shifted its clothing offer up...