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Self-checkout
Self-checkout is the most exciting growth area in customer-facing retail IT, with the majority of the world's leading food retailers trialling or rolling out systems. Self-checkout pioneers include Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Auchan, Casino and...
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Bouquets bloom in Waitrose aisles
Waitrose is turning up the style in flowers and plants with the launch of a florist-style range of bouquets, plants and flowers in branded gift-style packaging. The Blossom and Bloom range includes indulgent seasonal bouquets and plants...
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Tesco urges farmers to join organic team
Tesco has launched an initiative aimed at recruiting more British organic farmers and increasing the availability of British-sourced organic meat. The initiative was kickstarted at the Tesco-sponsored Food Animal Initiative in Oxford. The...
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The renaissance man
Guy Farrant has got the job he always dreamed of. His appointment as director of Marks & Spencer's food division last May after a six-month search by chief executive Stuart Rose comes after a 28-year career in the retailer, 22 years of which...
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Technology blips force Tesco into RFID rethink
Tesco has ditched its plan to roll out RFID to 1,400 stores and 30 distribution centres after technology problems forced a rethink.It had originally planned to have RFID readers at all depots and on at least one door of every...
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Sainsbury backtracks on relocation decision
Sainsbury has backtracked on a decision last year to centralise its convenience operations in the north east of England, with the relocation of its trading teams to its London headquarters. The national trading and marketing teams...
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Huntly brands Asda an 'arrogant bully'
Asda has been accused of acting like an "arrogant bully" in a Scottish town, just months after it used a new store to launch a loyalty scheme to encourage customers to shop with other local businesses. Its...
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Morrisons continues big sell-off of stores
Morrisons is still selling off stores and has slapped a &'for sale&' sign on two of its shops, including one in its home town Bradford, as part of an ongoing review of its operations. The supermarket chain has revealed that...
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Self-checkout
Self-checkout is the most exciting growth area in customer-facing retail IT, with the majority of the world&'s leading food retailers trialling or rolling out systems. Self-checkout pioneers include Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Auchan,...
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Waitrose turns up the heat for Class II
What was hailed by the national papers as a bid to sell "ugly" fruit is in fact a drive by Waitrose to give Class II fruit appeal as a cooking ingredient. Its Cooks Ingredients range is aimed at culinary use....
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Councils gun for Tesco over property deals
Tesco&'s planning deals are back in the spotlight with one council threatening to move tenants into derelict properties owned by the retailer, while another council is accused of secretive land deals with it. St Albans District...
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Sainsbury shows how to do it
Superbly attentive customer service, an absence of packing trolleys, impeccable merchandising and barely a wait at the checkout came together to deliver a class act at Sainsbury Whitley Bay In today&'s tough retail climate,...
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Asda threatens legal action
Asda is threatening legal action in an attempt to block a potential strike at its distribution centres.The supermarket group has been in a long-running dispute with the GMB union over working conditions and union recognition.However,...
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Waitrose to sell 'ugly fruit'
Waitrose is launching a range of 'ugly fruit' at discount prices for use in cooking.The supermarket chain said that from today it would sell a range of 'class two' strawberries, tomatoes, plums and other seasonal fruit that are visually...
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Marlow residents vote against Waitrose plans
Waitrose has found itself in the firing line of local opposition after residents of a Buckinghamshire town turned out in their thousands to officially vote against a planned store development in their area. Some 2,073 Marlow...
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Sainsbury installs interactive screens
Sainsbury is introducing touch-screen facilities to allow customers more interactivity and the option to give instant feedback. It has added touch-screen displays at its in-store customer service desks that allow customers to rate the...
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The Food from Britain client development team Back row l-r: Richard Sainter, Tracy George, Sarah Hodgen, Elsie Fairbanks. Front row l-r: John Whitehead, Jane Wakeling
Who's in the team?FFB's client development team is headed by Jane Wakeling who joined six months ago from Sainsbury where she was a regional food and drink manager and dairy buyer. She has years of experience in the export and regional...
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Marketing guru rises at United Co-op
Patrick Allen, head of group marketing at United Co-operatives, is joining the management executive. Allen joined in May 2004 from running a consultancy. He introduced a corporate marketing department, which brought together the marketing...