more supermarket news & analysis – Page 951
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Biscuits get into a Pole position
Huntley & Palmers, the biscuit manufacturer founded in 1822, is recreating the biscuits it specially produced for Captain Scott’s doomed 1911 race to the South Pole. On sale next month in Waitrose and Harrods, the biscuit is the...
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Kickass from Fat Bastard stable
Sainsbury’s late-summer Drinks Festival kicks off this month with a selection of new wines and half-price offers.The festival, from August 17 to September 13, will showcase 17 new wines including a selection of organic varietals, beers and...
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M&S slashes prices
Marks and Spencer has slashed the price of its women’s clothing ranges for the autumn and winter seasons in an attempt to improve underlying sales.Analysts at Seymour Pierce said that prices had been reduced by as much as 25%.Rhys...
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Legendary ale back after 7-year break
It’s back to the future for Bishop’s Tipple, which is returning to the ale shelves after a seven-year absence.The classic West Country strong ale is being relaunched in a bottle format and will be featuring in Sainsbury’s Drinks Festival this...
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Tesco may dropGerrards Cross
Speculation is growing that Tesco may be planning to walk away from its controversial store development at Gerrards Cross.A crucial engineering report, following the collapse of a tunnel last month, is being anxiously awaited on all...
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Tesco closes Slough superstore, opens new Extra
Tesco put an end to the controversy surrounding its dominance in Slough this week by closing the superstore at the centre of the debate.The move comes as the retailer re-opened its newly refurbished 101,000 sq ft Extra store on Monday (August...
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Will ‘fair prices’ do?
Sainsbury is close to finalising a new slogan to replace ‘Making Life Taste Better’ as the supermarket prepares for the September launch of its new-look advertising campaign.The Grocer has learned that ‘Great Food, Fair Prices’ is a strong...
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RFID watches shoppers
Tesco has embarked on a front-of-house RFID trial that uses tags on trollies to follow shoppers around stores to monitor their behaviour.The initiative kicked off last week at its Korean hypermarket chain, Tesco HomePlus, in collaboration with...
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Irish MPs calling for profits probe
An Irish parliamentary committee has called for an official study to establish the profits made by multiples in the Republic’s l7bn-plus grocery market, and which are not disclosed by the major chains, Tesco, Dunnes and Superquinn. As part of...
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Tesco faces pay militancy
Tesco has become the latest supermarket to be hit by the on-going unrest among distribution workers and unions.Asda and Morrisons distribution centres have already been caught up in various pay and employment disputes for months and now the...
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Asda lobbies for planning change
Asda will continue to lobby the government and local authorities on planning law, despite a statement by the deputy prime minister that the current system is working.The supermarket is struggling to increase its market share because planning...
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Star Buyer: Chris Silcock
>>buyer for men’s toiletries, deodorants and dental care, AsdaSilcock returned to Asda to work in the BWS and snacking supply chain after travelling round the world for a year. He originally joined Asda as a trading assistant after...
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Return of the BOGOF
What impact will Asda’s bogof tactics have on its rivals, asks James DurstonFor the first time ever, Asda is telling its customers to bogof. In the past three months, the market’s purest EDLP protagonist has launched a...
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Tesco struts its stuff
Tesco’s evolution from basics to fashion retailer has helped it seize a sizeable chunk of business from high street retailers. And there’s more to come this autumn, the head of its UK clothing business, Jason Tarry, tells Liz...
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Tesco helps those with nut allergies
from Jonathan Church, external communications manager, TescoSir; I was disappointed to see that your recent article on our new nut labelling initiative (‘Tesco nut policy could backfire’, July 23, p11) failed to recognise the...
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Infinite saga of cachaça
A recently listed traditional Brazilian spirit is already outperforming flavoured vodkas, according to Waitrose. Waitrose listed the 38% abv Sagatiba as its first cachaça – a spirit made from sugar cane – and a rise in popularity of the...
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Tesco top of personal finance market
Tesco is the top new entrant in the personal finance market, a Mintel report will show today.The report, Non-Traditional Providers in Financial Services, found that Tesco Personal Finance has won 4.6 million customer accounts since it...
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Harry Potter sells a million
The top three supermarkets have sold more than one million copies between them of the sixth instalment of JK Rowling’s boy wizard series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, attracting shoppers with their cut-price offers.Tesco, which cut...