All Non-food articles – Page 34
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Morrisons widens music and film offer
Morrisons has doubled the size of its CD offer in all stores and has also introduced Blu-Ray films.The retailer, which previously stocked the top 40 chart CD albums, has doubled its offer across all stores to the top 80. Blu-ray is...
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Picture This: Egg timer with the X-factor
Online retailer Prezzybox's egg-shaped device lets cooks know when their egg is perfectly cooked - by singing a tune. Beep Egg, which is dropped into the pan with the eggs, plays Killing me Softly for soft-boiled eggs, I wish I Was a Hen for...
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Waitrose axes DVDs to make space for more home cooking
Waitrose is to ditch its DVDs and CDs in favour of increasing its selection of home cooking products.Waitrose’s home entertainment sales have struggled in the six years since it began selling them because “it can’t compete on price” with...
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Home-grown popularity could boost UK flowers
Promoting domestic flowers as “British” could be the way for growers to reverse declining sales, according to a new report.
“UK floriculture production is showing a decline, as a large share of the companies are rather out-of-date, have… -
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OFT: 'Free wholesalers from newspaper code of practice'
Rules governing newstrade wholesalers could be relaxed following the findings of three Office of Fair Trading reports released today. Releasing its long-awaited reports into the 1994 National Newspapers Code of Practice and the vertical agreements between wholesalers and publishers, the OFT said wholesalers should be "released from the undertakings ...
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Socks kick off Steve Redgrave Fairtrade range at Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s is joining forces with Olympic rowing hero Steve Redgrave to become the first supermarket to sell the champion’s Fairtrade clothing range. The launch of the FiveG range into Sainsbury’s kicks off with cotton socks for men, which are...
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Tesco ambitious to become full-scale banking operation
Tesco has set out plans to launch a full retail bank, offering current accounts and bank branches in store. Tesco has paid £950m to buy the Royal Bank of Scotland’s 50% stake in Tesco Personal Finance on Monday. It will allow Tesco to widen its...
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Hot Stuff Mobile phones
The much-vaunted iPhone doesn't hit the shops here until the winter but is already the must-have gadget of the year. Tipped to make as big an impact in the mobile phone market as the iPod did on MP3 players, it can be used to browse the...
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Hot Stuff Satellite navigation
The TV advert for Tom Tom may drive you round the bend, but the gadget itself is designed to ensure you get to your correct destination with the minimum of fuss. The key to the success of the T0m Tom sat nav range is the user-friendly...
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Hot stuff 2007 buys
In 2006 it was hi-definition, email phones, iPod, hi-fis and Nintendo Wii, but what will 2007 bring? Solar-powered electric supercars? Laser TVs? Tickets to ride the Airbus A380? Maybe all the above and of course, Sony's latest gadget, the PS3....
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Hot Stuff Smart TVs
Modern TVs are constantly pushing the technological frontiers and the Pioneer PDP-5000EX is unquestionably the finest plasma display ever created. It's not cheap - you could buy all three of the others in our review for its £6,000 price...
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inside track
?Mutants, upside-down ships or Cars, anyone? Nev Pierce, acting editor, Total Film, looks at the big DVD releases out soon that are set to make a killing for supermarkets stocking them While retailers count the shopping days to...
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Hot stuff MP3 players
Creative Zen V Plus (from £110)Creative is the innovator in the MP3 market.It owns the patent on the familiar iPod-style menu systems, and Creative was touting hard-disk MP3 players before Apple even knew what MP3 stood...
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Disney on DVD drive for Christmas sales
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will get to do a spot of swashbuckling in company with a singing mermaid and a talking sports car next month as part of Disney's first overarching marketing campaign to push its DVDs on to consumers' Christmas...
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Inside track: Jeff Clark-Meads, music industry consultant
There are three words that make music saleable in 2006: telly, telly, telly
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Co-op and Oxfam push for mobile phone recycling
The Co-op is urging people to recycle their old mobile phones to raise money for Oxfam projects across the globe. On the 3rd of January the Co-op launched an in-store drive to collect old mobile phones and empty inkjet and laser cartridges...
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Celebrity gossip proves a hot topic
Celebrity gossip titles are leading growth in the women's weekly market, according to a new report from distributor Seymour. Their sales growth is outstripping that of the market in general and other women's weeklies in particular, it says. The...
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An opportunity missed'
While some newsagents reported huge demand for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day newspapers…
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Comment & Opinion
What future for newsagents?
Sir; Although I converted to a convenience store some 18 months ago, I still have the newsagent’s blood. However, a few things have happened to now question my deep rooted “beliefs”. On a recent trip to the local Asda I was amazed to see the amount…