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Own goal for Costcutter
Costcutter franchisee Artgoal Supermarkets has sold four of its stores to Tesco’s One Stop c-store chain, The Grocer has learned.The Warwickshire-based retailer’s move flies in the face of Costcutter’s declared intention to fight against the...
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Ocado woos with £20 bribe
Specialist online grocer Ocado is pushing hard to win back lapsed customers.Ocado, which operates in partnership with Waitrose, is offering former customers £20 off their next order if they spend £100 or more.In a letter to shoppers who...
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Welcome to the Tesco Academy
The national press has described recent defections from Tesco as a brain drain. But such reports are way off beam, says Liz HamsonThe news that Colin Smith has defected to Somerfield has sparked reports in the national press of a...
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Asda fends off Tesco
The stakes are rising in the non food battle, says Gaelle WalkerAsda has upped the ante in the battle for the non food pound, according to latest results from The Grocer 33’s Non Food Report. The quarterly basket survey of 33 non food...
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Tesco English Gala drive hailed
Tesco was praised this week by English apple producers for a successful drive to sell more home-grown Gala apples.English Apples and Pears chief executive Adrian Barlow said that the retailer was commanding 44% of retail sales of English Gala...
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Asda punnets are all heart
Heart-shaped punnets of strawberries are being rolled out into nearly 300 Asda stores in time for Valentine’s Day after a trial in 50 stores last year.The novel design, supplied by import and soft fruit marketing company AMS, which also...
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Costs cause the end for Farm Fed
Escalating costs, poor returns, competition from cheap imports and the loss of volumes with Sainsbury have all been blamed for a decision by Northern Ireland chicken processor Farm Fed Chickens to close its plant.The management of the...
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A culture of coaching
Tesco’s business strategy is for long-term growth. A key goal is to be as strong in non food as we are in food. To do this we have needed to achieve more at a faster rate and have been accelerating the pace of the business. With such a lot going ...
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Somerfield appoints retail director
Somerfield has appointed John Cleland as retail director. Cleland, who will take up his new role later this month, joins the retailer from DIY chain B&Q where he was commercial director. He will join former Tesco grocery trading...
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MPs criticise GP supermarket plans
MPs have criticised the government’s plans to offer GP services in supermarkets.
Former health secretary Frank Dobson, said: “It’s all very well saying we will get Tesco’s in, but the supermarkets have slaughtered local shops, sometimes to… -
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Bananas price crash is feared
There are fears that bananas could become a key weapon in the impending price war between Tesco and Asda.In the wake of Asda’s pledge to slash £102m off its overall prices, industry commentators believe that a price crash for bananas could be...
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Greenpeace keeps up the pace
After its victory last week in persuading Asda to delist some seafood species, Greenpeace UK this week hit the campaign trail to bring five more multiples into line with its way of thinking.Greenpeace has written to the fish buying or...
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Please call says St Merryn
Red meat processor St Merryn Foods said this week it was looking for more British new season organic lamb to fulfil increasing supply volumes to Tesco.The company, which is part of the Grampian Country Food Group, urged south west and South...
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Flexible Asda accelerates
Asda is gearing up for a big store development programme as it plans to beat last year’s record of 40 new openings. It will make a major statement about its store development programme next month, said Asda property communications manager Simon...
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Morrisons turns up the non food style
Morrisons is developing a new range of premium non food products under its Morrisons The Best range.The Best non food range is hitting shelves now, headed by 11 lines, including The Best bedding, The Best corkscrew and The Best enamel...
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Meet the dream team
Somerfield’s new bosses must narrow the price gap to compete with rivals, says Fiona McLellandSomerfield has been under private ownership for just a month, yet the scale of Violet Acquisitions’ ambitions is already apparent. In former...
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Is M&S cooking its own goose?
Dozens of loyal shoppers have come forward to support frozen ready meals retailer Cook in its row over own label with rival Marks and Spencer.As revealed in The Grocer last week, Cook claims the packaging and wording of M&S’s Cook! own...
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Waitrose could hook the commuters
from Jenny Cotton, Mortons MarketingSir; Your feature on Waitrose in last week’s issue rightly based its analysis on details about the relative affluence of households in catchment areas.However, a store catchment area is not...
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Waitrose in salt cut lead
Waitrose is three years ahead of targets set by the government to reduce salt levels in food.Its announcement coincides with Salt Awareness Week, which starts tomorrow (January 29). FSA chair Deirdre Hutton and public health minister Caroline...
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Asda set to roll out RFID
Asda is to enter the RFID arena for the first time with plans to introduce tagging into its warehouses and back of stores throughout this year.The move comes as Tesco admitted that there was a question mark hanging over the deadline for its...