more supermarket news & analysis – Page 906
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Asda Gibson Way, Gateshead 0 The Asda on Gibson Way in Gateshead was large and easy to shop in. However, our mystery shopper was not able to find all the items on his shopping list. The store did not stock the 16-pack of Twix...
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Price Survey
Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket for the third week in a row. In a tight race, Asda's basket price of £46.42 came in barely cheaper than Somerfield's total of £46.86. Tesco was third at £47.24, or 1.8% more than Asda, followed by Morrisons,...
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Who we visited Smile, Old Market Street, Bristol Spar, Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands premier, Broadfield Barton, Crawley, West Sussex tesco EXpress, High Street, Woodville, Derbyshire tesco metro, New...
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Asda scraps age from job applications
Asda has said that it will no longer ask applicants for their age on job applications.The supermarket group said that it would employ staff from the ages of 16 to 70, which goes beyond new age-discrimination legislation coming into force on...
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Asda snaps up Douglas Gurr to direct strategy
Douglas Gurr, founder and former chief executive of The Grocer Big 30 online delivered wholesaler Blueheath, has joined Asda as director of strategy. Blueheath announced in June that Gurr would be leaving the company in August following a...
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In Brief: Finance role for Gray; Leahy stays on board; JS role for Stephen; Winery appointment; Miller quits Parfetts
Finance role for Gray Naan and flatbread producer Honeytop Speciality Foods has appointed Duncan Gray as financial controller. Gray joins Honeytop from Next Retail, where he was a finance manager focused on travel expense...
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Asda Roehampton Vale, Roehampton, Surrey0Our mystery shopper at Asda in Roehampton Vale, Surrey, was not able to find all the items on her shopping list. Staff told her that the store did not stock Ocean Spray cranberry juice in...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
The Waitrose store in Sandbach, Cheshire, won The Grocer 33 Top Store Award this time last year. At the time, manager Andy Woodcock had run the store for three years, spanning its ownership by first Safeway and then Waitrose.In October...
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"Two high street competitors have put aside their rivalry and found a way to work together to the benefit of all"
It's not often you get invited to a secret rendezvous at a Heathrow hotel with two of the biggest names in the industry. So when I got a call to meet The Co-operative Group's Guy McCracken and Spar's Jerry Marwood at a Holiday Inn near the...
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Rivals buy into alliance
Two of the high street's biggest rivals, The Co-operative Group and Spar UK, have joined forces in a buying alliance to reduce the cost of own label goods and give them a more competitive position in the market. The companies are pooling...
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New season orange push
Outspan, the UK's leading importer of citrus fruit, has been celebrating its new season citrus with a promotional orange pack in all Morrisons stores. The new branded six-pack of oranges retails at £1.49 in Morrisons only and went on sale...
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Talking shop
Supporting Britain's farmers has always been at the heart of Waitrose, and as a supermarket we have a duty and a desire to do this, says Peter Cooke, Waitrose vegetable buyer. As a buying team we work in close partnership with our farmer...
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NFU 'satisfied' over Tesco Brazilian beef
Brazilian beef is back on shelves at Tesco, sparking anger from Asda, which had agreed to stop selling it. Tesco said that it was sourcing rump steak for its Value range from a handful of Brazilian producers in areas unaffected by the...
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Climbing the ladder
How did you get where you are today? I started out on the technical side on the Boots graduate scheme but switched to commercial after 18 months. After five years there, I left to join the healthcare buying team at Tesco. I've had several...
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Tesco tots up the Totals for dieters
Tesco has launched an online diet club to rival Weight Watchers following the early success of its eDiets business. It is promoting its Totals diet alongside worldwide slimmers' favourites such as the Mediterranean, GI and Atkins...
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Price Survey
Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket again this week at £38.26, while Tesco was once again in second place, this week with a basket price of £39.31, 2.7% higher than Asda. Sainsbury was third at £39.80, nudging Morrisons back to fourth place at...
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Who we visited BudgeNs, Sycamore Road, Amersham, Bucks Esso on the run, A3, Coombe Lane, Surrey sainsbury's at jacksons, Bawtry Road, Rotherham, Yorkshire Spar, Manor Road, Hinchley Wood, Surrey tesco EXpress,...
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Tesco expands range to cater for premium trend
Tesco is adding 75 new products to its beer and cider range to cash in on the growing interest in speciality and premium beers. The retail giant said that the biggest changes would apply to its world and speciality beer ranges, with the...
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Tunnel collapse hits John Laing
Chiltern Railways has blamed a half-year loss to 30 June of £2.4m on last July's tunnel collapse at the Tesco development at Gerrards Cross.The John Laing company said: “Tesco has accepted liability and we have now commenced a formal dispute...
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M&S boosted by ethical campaign
Marks and Spencer's 'Look Behind the Label' campaign is the most successful campaign in the retailer's history, analysts have said.Analysts from Citigroup said that the campaign, which includes fairtrade, sustainability and animal welfare,...