more supermarket news & analysis – Page 910
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Asda Handsworth Road, Sheffield1Asda's Handsworth Road store won our Top Store award, providing 32 out of 33 items on our shopping list this week. The cheapest Australian red wine was priced at £2.32, reduced from £2.82. However, it was...
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Meantime dark lager for Sainsbury's range
Sainsbury's is responding to the demand for dark lagers by adding a new variant to its Taste the Difference beer range. The 5% abv Franconian Dark Lager, produced by the Greenwich-based Meantime Brewing Company, will go into stores at...
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Asda Sheffield: a class act
When our mystery shopper visited Asda's Handsworth Road store in Sheffield, the store was clean, well-merchandised, the staff friendly and she had her shopping packed without asking. She said that she had a "thoroughly enjoyable experience" at...
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Price Survey
Geoff Igharo Asda remains the price leader this week, but Tesco has drawn much closer than it did last week, when it dropped to a suprising fourth place on our pricing table. Tesco's basket came in at £40.81 this week, just 66p...
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Tesco knows how to spot a homegrown winner
Sir; I read with interest the experts' view on succession planning. There was one important ingredient missing: the genius of the outgoing monarch to spot early and nurture the future...
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Jersey retailers vow to fight plans for new supermarket
Retailers on Jersey have attacked government plans to approve a new supermarket on the island. Jersey's council of ministers has agreed a policy to allow future retail development, after a study by Experian indicated that stores on the...
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M&S to beat Tesco to Gerrards Cross
Marks and Spencer will beat Tesco to opening a food store in Gerrards Cross, it was confirmed this week. Tesco had to put its plans on hold after a tunnel collapsed beneath the site of its proposed store last July. But now M&S has...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedBUDGENS Tolworth, Surreysouth west CO-OP Wyndham Way, Portishead COSTCUTTER Eden Street, KingstonTESCO EXPRESS Derby Road, DerbyTESCO METRO Mather Street, Salford How...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
Andy Kirby, manager of Waitrose's mammoth Food + Home store in Sheffield, was our winning manager this time last year. Kirby has since left Sheffield and is currently on secondment at the chain's new Barbican store in London. He said:...
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Inquiry is a 'huge ask' say retailers
Retailers are creaking under the sheer weight of information that the Competition Commission is calling for by next month, with some describing it as onerous and unworkable. Twenty one of the biggest retailers and buying groups, as well...
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Asda delivers Bounty baby-care packs
Asda is to be the first supermarket to distribute Bounty baby product sample packs. From September, almost one million Mums-to-Be and Baby's Progress packs will be handed out to new and prospective parents at stores. The packs have...
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Cheese with probiotics
A probiotic cheese that has the added benefit of being half-fat will be in Tesco at the end of next month. The mature Cheddar is the result of 12 months' development by Somerset-based Cricketer Farm and has been created to provide...
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Retailers defend record on commitment to waste issues
Any lingering doubts that environmental issues are topping the agenda for retailers right now were well and truly dispelled this week after a series of developments put green issues firmly in the spotlight. The Environment Agency drew a...
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Asda Craven Way, Bristol0Asda's Craven Way store provided all 33 items on our shopping list this week, but only just. A half-price offer on Pepsi had meant that this product was out of stock in the drinks aisle. Our shopper was lucky to...
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Burgundy wines in 25cl
Burgundian wine brand Blason de Bourgogne has launched the first two wines in its minis range.Its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay variants will be available in Tesco from the middle of next month in 25cl bottles, priced at £1.99 each, as well...
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Price Survey
Gaelle Walker The gap between Asda and Tesco's total basket prices has remained achingly wide this week. At £46.50 the cost of our 33 items at Tesco came to a whopping £3.17 more expensive than at Asda, a fact which is keeping...
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Waitrose 'ugly fruit' sales strong
Sales of Waitrose's 'ugly fruit' for cooking purposes are strong, the supermarket group's parent company the John Lewis Partnership has said.The group revealed that since the launch of the culinary fruit last month, it had sold 17 tonnes of...
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Buyers' views Thumbs up... but some reservations
Andrew Palfrey general manager frozen food, Asda"We are always keen to support commercially viable NPD. If the new range had real appeal to customers' desires to lead healthy lifestyles, and the right level of marketing support,...
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Asda trials return of butcher counter
Asda is introducing old-style butchery departments into five of its stores as a pilot scheme after customers called for the return of the fresh meats counter.Comments posted in-store bemoaned the lack of cuts of meat from qualified...