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World News - 16th December 2006
Safeway expands and refurbs. Pleasanton, California: Grocery chain Safeway is to spend $1.7bn on 25 new stores and the refurbishment of 275 existing stores in the next year. It has already refurbished 40% of its stores in its new...
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Morrisons' Melnyk set to go before Christmas
Marie Melnyk has resigned as managing director of Morrisons after taking medical advice. She will leave on 22 December after more than 30 years at the supermarket chain and will then consider her options for the future. The company...
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Greenpeace guns for beam trawling
Greenpeace ratcheted up the pressure on multiples to improve fish sourcing policies by "displaying" hundreds of dead fish and crabs at store entrances.Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in Oxford were targeted in two days of protest this week and...
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Q&A with Mike Shaw Manager of the Week
Tell us a little bit about Morrisons' Livingston store? The store was opened on 17 October last year so it's just over one year old. At 83,000 sq ft it's one of Morrisons' largest in Scotland and has the most up-to-date footprint. I am...
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Morrisons bows to the inevitable
Morrisons is tiptoeing into the 21st century. The retailer with the famously rudimentary supply chain has announced a plan to shed its supplier-unfriendly image by combining the best of Safeway's and Morrisons' supply chain operations. "We've...
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Q&A with Henri Henriques manager of the week
How long have you worked for Morrisons? I'm a real old timer. I joined Safeway more than 35 years ago and have been a store manager for the past 24. In that time I have managed eight stores mainly within the M25 area and opened two, including the...
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Morrisons enters collaborative era
Morrisons aims to sweeten its relationship with suppliers by rolling out a tool designed to improve transparency and communication in the supply chain. Speaking at the IGD supply chain summit, senior trading director Martyn Jones said the...
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Price Survey
Morrisons has claimed the cheapest 33-item shopping basket for the third time since The Grocer 33's End of Year Report in June.The retailer, which is currently sporting promotional offers on six of the 33 items on our shopping list, rang...
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morrisons, swadlincote
Seeing the expectant crowd, parents telling children to be patient, journalists and photographers jostling for position, you might think you were at a Hollywood film premiere.
But the reason for the excited gathering in Swadlincote,… -
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Morrisons disposal completed
Morrisons has announced that the sale of six stores and a distribution centre to Waitrose has been completed. In July this year, Waitrose bought the stores at Eastbourne, Formby, Hexham, Lymington, Parkstone and Portswood, and a distribution...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
Morrisons' relatively compact 20,000 sq ft store in Warminster, Wiltshire won our award this time last year. Since then, manager John Volney has moved on to the company's much larger store in Weymouth, Dorset. The Weymouth deputy...
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Q&A with Hassi Singardia Manager of the Week
Was this store operating under a different banner recently? This used to be a Safeway store. I was already the manager here when Somerfield bought this store from Morrisons. We went through a conversion and refurbishment process a year...
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Morrisons bid rumours resurface
Rumours have resurfaced that private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts could be planning to make a bid for Morrisons.In July this year shares in the supermarket group rose after reports suggested that a consortium of private equity...
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Supermarkets hailed for seafood progress
Just months after its protesters took to the roofs of Asda and Morrisons' stores, Greenpeace is hailing British supermarkets for leading a green seafood revolution - but wants further action. During Seafood Week next week, campaigners...
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Second opinion Following Morrisons' completion of the ex-Safeway conversion programme, will it realise its opportunities, asks Jack Sinclair
Investors were encouraged by last week's sales from Morrisons and the share price is now recovering.The transaction to acquire Safeway is finally paying dividends. The Morrisons business model is strong and unique. Applying it to the ex-Safeway...
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Morrisons gauges online opportunity
Morrisons has tested an interactive version of its weekly Best Buys leaflet, in what looks like a tentative step towards expansion of its internet presence.The electronic flyer, produced by online marketing technology company Activepoint...
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Brilliance at Bishopbriggs
The Bishopbriggs Morrisons on Kirkintilloch Road in Glasgow has won this week's Top Store award. Our mystery shopper there was impressed by the helpful and friendly staff. She noted that the managers made sure new checkouts were opened as soon...
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Austin lands logistics role at Morrisons
Morrisons has appointed Neal Austin as director oflogistics. He is set to start his role, which is a new one for the retailer, on 2 October, and will be reporting directly to David Hutchinson, Morrisons' manufacturing, warehouse and...
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Price Survey
Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket for the third week in a row. In a tight race, Asda's basket price of £46.42 came in barely cheaper than Somerfield's total of £46.86. Tesco was third at £47.24, or 1.8% more than Asda, followed by Morrisons,...
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Q&A with Paul Chapman Manager of the Week
Have you have won this award before? Yes, I was the manager here when we won the award last June. We were trading as a Safeway back then, but the store has since been refitted and rebadged under the Morrisons brand. In fact, I think it is 12…