All Product prices articles – Page 143

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    Price Survey

    2006-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Asda continues to outpace the competition and has delivered the cheapest shopping basket for the fifth week in a row, this time at £51.13. Asda was quite active with offers this week.The company had promotions on nine of the 33 items in this...

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    Price Survey

    2006-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Tesco was the cheapest store this week at £55.98. Tesco's win built on last week's second-placed finish and ended its long spell out of the top position.Asda dropped to second place this week after its five-week run in the top spot....

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    Price Survey

    2006-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Asda is the cheapest supermarket for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a basket price of £55.08. Our results also show that while Somerfield has fallen back down to sixth place on our table, Tesco has still not been able to claw...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited Smile, Old Market Street, Bristol Spar, Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands premier, Broadfield Barton, Crawley, West Sussex tesco EXpress, High Street, Woodville, Derbyshire tesco metro, New...

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    Price Survey

    2006-09-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    Availability

    2006-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Asda Gibson Way, Gateshead 0 The Asda on Gibson Way in Gateshead was large and easy to shop in. However, our mystery shopper was not able to find all the items on his shopping list. The store did not stock the 16-pack of Twix...

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    Big brands continue to dominate activity chart

    2006-09-02T00:00:00Z

    The big brands continue to dominate the top ten branded activity chart with Nestlé having been in first place for the previous five issues (since 29 July 2006). Nestlé's dominance is primarily due to its ongoing promotional offers across...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited BudgeNs, Sycamore Road, Amersham, Bucks Esso on the run, A3, Coombe Lane, Surrey sainsbury's at jacksons, Bawtry Road, Rotherham, Yorkshire Spar, Manor Road, Hinchley Wood, Surrey tesco EXpress,...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket again this week at £38.26, while Tesco was once again in second place, this week with a basket price of £39.31, 2.7% higher than Asda. Sainsbury was third at £39.80, nudging Morrisons back to fourth place at...

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    trends

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Grocery prices down Grocery prices remain 0.8% higher than they were this time last year, despite falling a further 0.4% in the period between the beginning of July and August. This latest modest price decrease follows on from the...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Asda has regained the top spot this week, after temporarily losing its title to Morrisons. Asda had a basket price of £35.47, or £0.50 cheaper than Tesco, which came in second. Much of Asda's lead was due to a price drop on...

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    Price pressure boiling

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Retailers are ­facing a growing struggle to keep a lid on inflation - and the future holds little prospect of a lessening in the upward pressure on grocery prices, analysts warned this week. The latest data from The Grocer 100 pricing...

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    Manufacturers slam alcohol pricing wars

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    This week the drinks industry came under fire again for stripping value from the drinks market. Jean-Manuel Spriet, chief executive of Pernod Ricard UK, reportedly accused rival wine producers of promoting misleading 'half-price' discount...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited Co-OP Market Street, Ashby De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire CostCutter Lodway, Pill, Bristol Keystore Lammermoor Road, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow MACE St Leonards Road, Horsham, West Sussex tesco express...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons has overtaken Asda to become the cheapest supermarket this week. Morrisons' basket came in at £45.53, just pipping perennial price leader Asda and Sainsbury's, which has been cutting prices to regain market share. The spread on the...

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    Non food

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    It has been a year since we first launched The Grocer 33's Non Food Report. Twelve months on, and the results of our fifth quarterly survey of non food price points are virtually identical to those we published in August 2005. Asda is...

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    Dolmio, Napolina do an Italian job in top 5 chart

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Italian ingredients brands Dolmio and Napolina have both moved into the top five grocery chart this week with Dolmio having offers across three of the five retailers, favouring the 'x for y' mechanic in Asda and Sainsbury's and...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Geoff Igharo Asda remains the price leader this week, but Tesco has drawn much closer than it did last week, when it dropped to a suprising fourth place on our pricing table. Tesco's basket came in at £40.81 this week, just 66p...

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    Irish food price surveys spark fresh rip-off row

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The row over the price of food in the Republic of Ireland is raging on, with consumers in the country being told that because of the high price of groceries at home, it would be cheaper for them to fly to Italy to do their weekly...

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    Stop this nonsense: cut the tax on healthy fruit drinks

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The government has made great strides in educating the population about the need to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day. According to the Department of Health, 67% of adults are now aware of this need. Yet, two thirds of the population are...