All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 44
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Grocer 33
Morrisons Kilmarnock: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘It is good to hear that the store still looks and feels fresh. In the past six months we had a new-look café put in’
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The Big Interview
Jonathan Miller of McColl's on doing deals, scale, Nisa and Palmer & Harvey
CEO Jonathan Miller is determined the acquisitive McColl’s will remain a force for consolidation in convenience
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Grocer 33
Morrisons closes the gap but Asda takes another pricing win
At £57.86, Asda was just 93p cheaper than Morrisons
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News
Tim Fairs joins McColl's as customer director
Fairs joins from card and gifting retailer Clintons
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News
McColl's uses Safeway to drive takeup of Plus loyalty scheme
The convenience retailer has now launched the Safeway brand in 25 stores in the north west of England…
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News
Richard Walker to join The Grocer as latest guest editor
Walker has been the face of Iceland’s bold new environmental plan, which has attracted huge interest from UK media organisations
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News
Waitrose pledges to drop black plastic from own-label produce
Waitrose will not sell any own-label food in black plastic beyond 2019. The move follows the announcement earlier in the week by Iceland to cut plastic packaging from all its own label products within five years
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News
Asda is cheapest again thanks to effect of Rollbacks
The Walmart-owned retailer announced its latest round of Rollback promotions last week
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Grocer 33
Aldi ends Asda's winning run - but the gap is closing
Aldi’s £32.96 total was £4.52 cheaper than Asda as it offered the lowest price for 28 of the 33 items on our list
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Comment and Opinion
Poundland has entered the new year in good elf
What a Christmas it has been for Poundland
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News
ASH dismisses Philip Morris newspaper ads as 'a PR stunt'
The ads set out its new year’s resolution as ‘trying to give up cigarettes’
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News
Asda takes win as price gap to Lidl is slashed to 6%
Asda’s £51.67 total was £3.46 cheaper than second-placed Morrisons
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News
William Reed acquires Pro-Retail trademark
The publisher of The Grocer bought the trademark from P&H administrators PwC for an undisclosed sum
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News
Poundland shrugs off scandal to deliver successful Christmas
Discounter reported a like-for-like sales increase of 5.6% for the 12 weeks to 24 December…
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News
Poundland owner Pepkor Europe secures new £180m loan facility
The Grocer first revealed that trade credit insurer Atradius had reduced its cover for the discount retailer in mid-December in the wake of the Steinhoff accounting scandal
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News
Philip Morris launches campaign for a 'smoke-free future'
Newspaper ads yesterday publicised the company’s New Year’s resolution to ‘give up cigarettes’, as part of PMI’s plans to shift smokers away from traditional cigarettes
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News
Aldi predicts premium Specially Selected will reach £1bn in 2018
The discounter said sales of Specially Selected had already soared by 32% this year
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News
Poundland trade credit reduced in wake of Steinhoff scandal
Action by Atradius could lead to empty shelves as suppliers halt deliveries
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Analysis and Features
E-cigarettes: sales up in smoke with an £8m tumble
Just a couple of years ago e-cigarettes looked like it could be the Holy Grail for grocers, particularly indies
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Analysis and Features
Tobacco: Player's sails past £1bn as smokers quit
Tobacco has struggled to come to terms with the upheaval of the biggest legislative changes ever