While other papers treated Ocado's latest figures as a sign that it would soon deliver a profit, The Daily Mail questioned whether the internet grocery business could continue as a going concern. Under the headline 'Ocado in the red for sixth year', the paper said Ocado had consistently failed to make money, despite being a hit with its upmarket customers and scoring highly in satisfaction surveys.
Tate & Lyle's fall in value by almost a third made big news in all of the papers with the FT reporting that rising commodity prices had hit the company harder than expected. Shares in the sugar business plummeted 28% to a three-year low of 402.5p, it said, after the third profit warning in eight months. The weakness of the US dollar was expected to wipe a further £12m off the company's profits in the first half of the year, the paper added.
Mums are eschewing ready meals for home-cooked food, according to research from parenting website Raisingkids. The study, based on a poll of more than 2,500 parents, found that, despite time pressures, 70% of parents claimed to make their own pasta sauce while 60% said they baked their own bread and cooked burgers from scratch.
Big tax increases are to be put on alcohol to curb teenage binge drinking. Ministers were considering a blanket rise in tax on all alcohol and would use next year's Budget to introduce the first real duty increase on alcohol in 10 years, said the paper, and special offers in supermarkets would be outlawed in an attempt to make alcohol too expensive for children.
Muslim staff at Sainsbury's are being allowed to opt out of handling alcohol on religious grounds, according to The Sunday Times. Workers can instead raise their hands when encountering an alcoholic drink at their till so that a colleague can scan the items. Sainsbury's said it was keen to accommodate the religious beliefs of its staff.
Tate & Lyle's fall in value by almost a third made big news in all of the papers with the FT reporting that rising commodity prices had hit the company harder than expected. Shares in the sugar business plummeted 28% to a three-year low of 402.5p, it said, after the third profit warning in eight months. The weakness of the US dollar was expected to wipe a further £12m off the company's profits in the first half of the year, the paper added.
Mums are eschewing ready meals for home-cooked food, according to research from parenting website Raisingkids. The study, based on a poll of more than 2,500 parents, found that, despite time pressures, 70% of parents claimed to make their own pasta sauce while 60% said they baked their own bread and cooked burgers from scratch.
Big tax increases are to be put on alcohol to curb teenage binge drinking. Ministers were considering a blanket rise in tax on all alcohol and would use next year's Budget to introduce the first real duty increase on alcohol in 10 years, said the paper, and special offers in supermarkets would be outlawed in an attempt to make alcohol too expensive for children.
Muslim staff at Sainsbury's are being allowed to opt out of handling alcohol on religious grounds, according to The Sunday Times. Workers can instead raise their hands when encountering an alcoholic drink at their till so that a colleague can scan the items. Sainsbury's said it was keen to accommodate the religious beliefs of its staff.
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