Archive of all Morrisons articles – Page 103

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    Price Survey - 19th May 2007

    2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Despite offering several of the lowest-priced products on the list, Asda is only the third cheapest retailer this week after Tesco and Morrisons lowered key prices to take first and second position respectively. The lettuce and syrup in Tesco's...

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    Morrisons recalls cake

    2007-05-10T08:18:00Z

    Morrisons has recalled its premium range ‘The Best’ carrot and orange cake because of a packaging error.The allergy advisory statement on the label does not state that the product contains nuts, although walnuts are listed in the...

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    Price Survey

    2007-05-05T00:00:00Z

    While Asda and Tesco have been locked in a wrangle with one another to achieve the lowest prices, Morrisons has come from nowhere and undercut them both with a winning £55.89 basket. Although Morrisons' prices were generally similar to...

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    Morrisons police not cut out for it

    2007-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Now that's what they call fresh! Thieves north of the Border have taken the law into their own hands - quite literally. Two cardboard cut-outs of policemen have been half-inched from Morrisons' West Langlands Street supermarket in...

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    Morrisons is green as 'it keeps us in the black'

    2007-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Retailer green initiatives are 10-a-penny these days. There's Plan A from Marks & Spencer. Tesco has made a £500m green pledge. Now Asda is in a war on packaging, and Sainsbury's has its designer reusable bags.One supermarket conspicuous...

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    Six of the Best: Bagged snacks

    2007-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Star buyer: Adrian Gash senior buyer, crisps, snacks & nuts, waitroseGash has been with Waitrose for three years. He joined from Safeway, where he spent six years covering pharmaceuticals, bread and finally crisps. Gash says...

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    In Brief: Own-label shines; Mallya buys Scotch; 30-mile credentials

    2007-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Own-label shines Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons were the biggest winners at The Grocer Own Label Excellence Awards, picking up 13 of the 20 gongs between them. Mallya buys Scotch Indian...

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    Time to go green (...and yellow)

    2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons finally got its ecological act together this week and outlined its environmental commitments in its first-ever corporate responsibility report.Until now, it had been letting rivals Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer...

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    Bolland puts focus on Market Street

    2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons is likely to prioritise a revamp of its Market Street format rather than the immediate replacement of its distinctive black and yellow fascia when chief executive Marc Bolland unveils its new look later this month.It is...

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    Can 'The Best' cut it with the others?

    2007-04-16T00:00:00Z

    With all eyes on the 'will they won't they' saga surrounding the possible bid for Sainsbury's, the industry's first look at Marc Bolland and his vision for Morrisons may have passed a few watchers by. So I'd like to examine what he said and the...

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    Price Survey - 14th April 2007

    2007-04-16T00:00:00Z

    It might be lagging in our Top Store awards but Asda is enjoying an impressive run in our price survey. This week's basket - the cheapest at £43.25 - represents Asda's ninth consecutive week as cheapest retailer, but Morrisons was only seven pence...

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    Morrisons on the road to multi-format future

    2007-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons will open its smallest new store in 20 years in the Glasgow suburb of Erskine later this year. At 24,800 sq ft - nearly half the size of the Bradford-based retailer's usual supermarket - it looks set to be the first of a new...

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    Rejected 31% profit margin 'proves the waterbed effect'

    2007-04-09T00:00:00Z

    A confectionery supplier has hit out at the supermarket chains after Morrisons rejected one of its products because the 31% profit margin it offered the retailer was considered too low.Roy Willett, MD of manufacturing wholesale...

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    Morrisons scores a hat-trick

    2007-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons' store in High Wycombe has scooped this week's Top Store award for the third time, thanks to excellent customer service and availability.Our shopper was impressed by the clean and tidy store that had no packing trolleys or...

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    Bolland gets fresh but has he gone far enough?

    2007-03-24T00:00:00Z

    It's been described as "Waitrose with value." Marc Bolland prefers to think of it as a "food specialist for everyone". So, after a six month-long review of Morrisons, what are we to make of the new CEO's vision? It was clearly an...

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    this week a year ago The winner was...

    2007-03-24T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons in Bredbury, Stockport, won the Top Store award this time last year. Store manager Chris Menon (left) put its success down to a strong focus on availability, stating it was a number one priority for shoppers. Since then Menon has moved...

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    Price Survey

    2007-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Asda is the UK's cheapest retailer for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a £41.18 basket, according to data from The Grocer 33 pricing survey. It was £2.20 cheaper than Tesco, which came in second-cheapest at £43.38. Morrisons and...

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    Price Survey

    2007-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Asda is the UK's cheapest retailer for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a £41.18 basket, according to data from The Grocer 33 pricing survey. It was £2.20 cheaper than Tesco, which came in second-cheapest at £43.38. Morrisons and...

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    Q&A with Ray Jeans Manager of the Week

    2007-03-10T00:00:00Z

    What is your greatest challenge and how do you tackle it? Our greatest challenge initially was bringing a new Asda store to a town that already has other supermarkets. There is a Sainsbury's and a Morrisons nearby and to begin with,...

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    Q&A with Ray Jeans Manager of the Week

    2007-03-10T00:00:00Z

    What is your greatest challenge and how do you tackle it? Our greatest challenge initially was bringing a new Asda store to a town that already has other supermarkets. There is a Sainsbury's and a Morrisons nearby and to begin with,...