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Sainsbury's has started selling milk packaged in a recyclable plastic pouch in 35 of its stores to try to reduce packaging waste, according to The Times. The pouches, produced in partnership with Dairy Crest, are claimed to reduce milk packaging waste by 75%. They will be available in 500 stores within a year.

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Tesco has told celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to pay £86,000 if he wants a vote on adopting RSPCA standards to go ahead, according to The Independent. He bought a share in Tesco this year, entitling him to put a resolution at the company's agm. But Tesco said he had missed the deadline and it would not pay to send further voting forms to all 235,000 shareholders.

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Five greengrocers a week have closed in Britain over the past 11 years, totalling almost 3,000, The Daily Telegraph reported. It quoted data from HMRC suggesting there were 6,916 registered greengrocers in April 1997 but by this April the number had fallen to 3,948. The loss has left shoppers having to shop in supermarkets, where produce is 45% more expensive than at a traditional grocer, the paper claimed.

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Marks & Spencer plans to open a 200,000 sq ft store on the new Stratford City shopping mall at the gateway to the Olympic site, said The Guardian. Due to open in 2010, it will be one of M&S's largest outlets and its biggest development for a decade. The decision comes as M&S scales back its capital expenditure in the face of the far tougher conditions on the high street.

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Tesco cashiers refused to sell a woman Jack Daniel's-branded barbecue sauce because she did not have any ID. The 25-year-old was told she could not buy the sauce because it contained 2% alcohol. Staff even refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, who was with her at the time and did have ID, because they said he would give it to her.

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