All Supermarkets articles – Page 276
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Morrisons to sponsor ITV’s festive Text Santa fundraiser
Morrisons is set to replace Asda as the sponsor of ITV’s annual festive charity fundraiser Text Santa.
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Tesco secures Fresh & Easy sale
Tesco has sold its US operation Fresh & Easy to private equity firm Yucaipa.
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Co-op backs Carers Trust charity drive with wristband rollout
The Co-operative Group is to sell Carers Trust wristbands across its estate following success in 12 shops in South Wales.
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Co-op drops lads’ mags titles in modesty row
Lads’ mags Front, Nuts and Zoo will no longer be sold in more than 4,000 Co-op stores from today after the magazine’s publishers refused to cover up their raunchy front covers.
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The Co-op gets ready to launch Loved by Us food-to-go range
The Co-operative Group’s new Loved by Us range is set to hit shelves on Monday…
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Analysis and Features
Asda and Sainsbury's take lead in August price inflation fight
After spiking in June, price inflation at the top five supermarkets is tapering off…
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Asda in foyer booze u-turn as 'rivals fail to follow suit'
Asda has watered down its pledge to stop promoting alcohol in the foyers of its stores…
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Tesco ditches Sherborne store as it pledges to listen to local views
Tesco’s UK boss Chris Bush today pledged the retailer would “work with anyone” to try to breathe new life into the high street, as it gave up on plans for a store in Sherborne.
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Delia Smith returns to Waitrose with online cookery school
Delia Smith is returning to Waitrose to present her online cookery school on the company’s website.
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Co-op strikes deal to supply frozen food to the military
British troops will be able to buy Co-op products in military bases for the first time following a new deal with NAAFI.
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Tesco horsemeat ad misled consumers, ASA rules
Tesco has been slapped down by the Advertising Standards Authority for one of the horsemeat apology ads it ran at the height of the scandal earlier this year.
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Chains should fund high-street rescue with levy, Grimsey says
Supermarkets and other retail and leisure chains should fund a new one-off levy to help rescue the high street, according to the author of a new report.
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Tesco gets go-ahead for Didcot dark store
Tesco has won planning permission to build a 120,000 sq ft dark store in Milton Hill, near Didcot…
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Click & collect used by just 3% of grocery shoppers
Click & collect still has a long way to go before it is more than a niche, according to a study by IGD…
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Comment and Opinion
Why isn't Asda doing better?
Why isn’t Asda doing better? Is its functional advertising to blame? We’re about to find out…
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Analysis and Features
Eye-tracking and football technology help retailers score
First there was eye-tracking. Now grocery is turning to technology used by football clubs to work out how people shop…
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Hovis loses lines as Tesco Express prefers Kingsmill and Burgen
Tesco is shaking up the bread fixture in its Express c-stores – spelling more bad news for Hovis…
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Analysis and Features
The Grocer’s 1950 article on Sainsbury’s Croydon: 'An impression of airiness'
Here is how The Grocer reported the opening of Sainsbury’s “self-service” store in Croydon on 8 July 1950 - a shop that reopened this week as a Sainsbury’s Local.
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Sainsbury’s opens new c-store on historic Croydon site
Sainsbury’s has reopened a store in Croydon that has an illustrious history - it was the retailer’s first store outside of London, and was a pioneering self-service outlet in the 1950s…
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Analysis and Features
Has Strawberrygate hulled the lengthy promos of old?
As Daphne Smallman, 76, discovered while shopping at Tesco in June 2011, some pleasures aren’t as simple as they first app…