All Product prices articles – Page 144
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Britvic's keeping up the promotional pace
The soft drinks category was last looked at in detail by the Promotrack analysis in the 17 June issue of The Grocer when we looked at the correlation between sponsorship of the World Cup and in-store promotional activity by its...
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Asda Sheffield: a class act
When our mystery shopper visited Asda's Handsworth Road store in Sheffield, the store was clean, well-merchandised, the staff friendly and she had her shopping packed without asking. She said that she had a "thoroughly enjoyable experience" at...
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Gaelle Walker The gap between Asda and Tesco's total basket prices has remained achingly wide this week. At £46.50 the cost of our 33 items at Tesco came to a whopping £3.17 more expensive than at Asda, a fact which is keeping...
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Old El Paso fires up the branded activity chart
While no longer reported as a individual chart within the Promotrack feature, Assosia continues to monitor the overall top ten branded activity across all categories on a weekly basis and it is worth mentioning this week that three brands have...
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Gaelle WalkerPricing strategies at Tesco seemed to run awry this week. As the mercury hit the 90s, so Tesco's total basket price soared to £47.14, plunging the retailer, which is usually ranked as the UK's second cheapest supermarket...
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Nothing they can do? A total eclipse of the charts
This issue we have focused on some of the categories and brands/products that do not make it into the top five charts published, either because they do not have the same budgetary purse strings as the big brands, or the categories they are in do...
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Shopping basket totals leapt up a few more pence this week as a result of an across-the-board hike in the per kg price of loose bananas from 64p at the top four to 85p. Waitrose increased its price by 10p to 89p while 99p is the cost for...
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When service is really hot!
When our mystery shopper had a little trouble reaching a product in the bakery section of Sainsbury's Drumchapel store, the baker in his whites was quick to jump from his oven and to our shopper's aid without him even having to ask. This...
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Brands spread butter offers across retailers
This week's Promotrack focuses on the butters/spreads and cheese sub-categories in line with the Focus on Butters & Spreads. Of the featured space promotional activity recorded over the past 12 weeks, promotions were captured...
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Sainsbury is a Welsh sizzler!
Sainsbury's Newport store in Wales topped the customer service and availability charts this week to claim the Top Store Award. Our mystery shopper was impressed from the moment that she entered the store. She said that a lot of effort had...
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Asda's decision to join Tesco and Waitrose in raising the price of its own label milk has had little impact on its position as the UK's cheapest supermarket, according to The Grocer 33's latest survey. Both Asda and Morrisons have...
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Sainsbury shows how to do it
Superbly attentive customer service, an absence of packing trolleys, impeccable merchandising and barely a wait at the checkout came together to deliver a class act at Sainsbury Whitley Bay In today&'s tough retail climate,...
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How to really pack a punch
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was another close call. Asda and Tesco both provided our shoppers with brimming baskets so customer service became the deciding factor. Asda won as our shopper at Asda Gateshead was offered help...
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In 1997 Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister, the world learned that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest running prime time TV series and The Grocer 33 was born....
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In 1997 Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister, the world learned that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest running prime time TV series and The Grocer 33 was...
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On queue for great service!
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was a close call between Sainsbury's Kimberley store in Nottingham, and Tesco's Loundwater store in Buckinghamshire. As both stores provided full baskets and flawless customer service,...
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Iceberg lettuce prices have plummeted at Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Waitrose and Somerfield this week but the order of our top six supermarkets has remained unchanged. Asda is still The Grocer 33&'s cheapest supermarket for...
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The Grocer 33: 2006 End of year annual review
Asda has been crowned the cheapest supermarket for the ninth year in a row. The retailer has once again dominated the pricing tables for the past 12 months and claimed The Grocer 33's lowest priced shopping basket for 30 of the past 50...
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As World Cup fever kicks in and the supermarkets blow the starter whistle on a summer of deep cut promotional activity, the first week of our revised 33-item list shows that pricing strategies at our four cheapest supermarkets are...
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After five weeks in third and second places, Asda has managed to claw its way back to the top spot this week.A vicious round of price cuts and a muscular promotional push has caused Asda's total shopping basket to plummet by £2.13,...