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Tesco: can it do no wrong?
Six out of every 10 people visited a Tesco store in the four weeks to Christmas, spending an average of £148.22 each.The UK’s top food retailer took almost 30% of trade in these key weeks, according to The Grocer’s exclusive TradeTrak research...
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Waitrose wins at Christmas
Waitrose emerged as the surprise winner among grocery retailers announcing their Christmas sales this week, although Tesco is expected to emerge triumphant when it reports next week.Waitrose reported like-for like sales up 3.6% in the seven...
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Tesco RFID hits higher gear
Tesco is embarking on a major roll out of RFID in its supply chain with plans to install readers across its entire depot and store network by the end of the year.Under a deal struck with electronic security systems expert ADT, Tesco will...
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Asda has a merry little Christmas
The Christmas trading period this year clearly established Tesco, Asda and Waitrose as winners, according to this month’s Homescan Total Till. All three retailers achieved sales growths of between 10% and 20% over the same four-week period last...
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Tesco RFID hits higher gear
Tesco is embarking on a major roll out of RFID in its supply chain with plans to install readers across its entire depot and store network by the end of the year.Under a deal struck with electronic security systems expert ADT, Tesco will...
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M&S thanks customers for donations
Marks & Spencer has issued a thank you to all its customers for their generosity in donating £2m so far to the company’s Asian Earthquake Appeal.Stuart Rose, chief executive, said: “our customers have responded with incredible generosity to...
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Supermarkets win the Christmas battle, says new research for The Grocer
Tesco, Asda and Waitrose emerged clear winners over the Christmas period, with sales growths between 10% and 20% compared to the same period last year. Sales across the grocery channel for the four weeks to December 25, 2004 were up 9.2%....
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Sainsbury sees fuel-driven sales growth
Sainsbury has announced a sales growth of 6.1% for its third quarter, strongly driven by petrol sales.Sales growth for the 12 weeks to January 1 totalled 2.7% if petrol was excluded, and on a like-for-like basis sales were up by 2.4% but...
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Waitrose.com offers new broadband prices
Waitrose has launched a new pricing structure for its broadband facility at its online arm, Waitrose.com.Its broadband service was launched in June last year and Waitrose became the first UK supermarket to provide broadband. It is...
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Tesco and Asda buy Big W stores from Woolworths
Tesco and Asda have bought seven out-of-town Big W stores from UK retailer Woolworths following a recent auction of the stores.The stores are the only ones out of the chain of 21 Big W stores that have permission for food retailing, and they...
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Yeardley takes reins at Lincolnshire Co-op
New retail operations manager Ray Yeardley began working with the Lincolnshire Co-operative last month, taking over from Mike Mawer, who is retiring.Yeardley was previously the MD of Supergifts Company, which has 40 Superpounds stores across...
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Asda chief made CBE in new year’s honours
Asda boss Tony DeNunzio has been rewarded with a CBE in the New Year Honours list.“I believe this honour reflects Asda’s contribution to retail excellence as well as my work with Government on competitiveness,” said DeNunzio.Other senior...
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Asda cuts cost of health
Asda is slashing prices on healthy food products by £17m and harmonising prices on its Good for you! range with standard ranges as part of a £24m drive. The retailer said it was putting health at the heart of its business and was determined to...
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Tesco shoppers don’t like being churned up
Tesco is reassessing its range review processes after customers complained that there was too much churn.Food supply director Joe Dybell declined to give details but confirmed that customers wanted greater consistency. He added: “Customers tell...
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It’s a non-food steal for top 2
Tesco is set to emerge top of the Christmas retailing battle, say analysts, who predict the big supermarkets will have fared better than the high street.As the multiples prepare to reveal Christmas figures, City analysts said sales would not be...
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Margram eyes further sites
Margram has sold off its entire retail business to Somerfield and is developing further sites for the supermarket chain.However, the independent retailer, previously ranked 30 in The Grocer Top 50, is planning to run company-owned forecourts...
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morrisons on rail
Morrisons is looking at using the railway network to transport goods after assessing Safeway’s use of the channel to move goods from Daventry to Scotland and from central Scotland to the Highlands. A spokesman said: “We do intend to use the rail...
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GI firepower for Tesco
Tesco has launched a lifestyle and diet book to encourage healthy eating and will label products in store to help shoppers follow the plan.The GI Guide is based on the Glycaemic Index which rates carbohydrates by the effect they have on blood...
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They’re hot properties
When soup suppliers nominated their favourite buyers this month they told us that although their nominees were determined to drive a hard bargain, they were also fair and helped to increase the performance of the soup category.Tesco’s Mark...
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Fasten your seat belts...
...you’re in for a bumpy ride in 2005. Last year the industry was well and truly under the spotlight thanks to the Public Health White Paper, continued c-store consolidation and the troubles at Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. And it can expect ...