All Supermarkets articles – Page 312
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News
Tesco hopes for Halo effect with femcare venture brand
Tesco has launched what industry observers believe is the retailer’s latest venture brand – a range of feminine hygiene products called Halo.
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Free food mag from The Co-op to push value message
The Co-operative Group is to launch a bi-monthly in-store magazine next month.
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Morrisons’ web gambit helps it storm up hit list
As it gears up to begin selling online, Morrisons’ investment in its website and digital marketing is already proving a hit with customers.
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M Kitchen moves into veggie meals market
Morrisons is launching a vegetarian ready meal range that will be the antidote to “bland” supermarket veggie fare, it claims.
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Ocado milks organic growth for impressive market share
Ocado has gained a 7% share of the organic grocery market, boosted by a tripling in Daylesford sales after the launch of its virtual farm shop on the website in September.
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Comment and Opinion
The downside of expansion
For all the talk of retailers switching their attention away from new build supermarkets to revamps, there’s still plenty of expansion in the pipeline this year.
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News
Supermarkets' taste for craft lager grows
Supermarkets are knocking on the doors of craft lager brewers as sales of speciality beer soar.
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Analysis and Features
Can Chokablok keep up the pace outside the freezer?
Tesco is driving its venture brand into new areas but it will face a tougher fight in the confectionery market than ice cream.
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News
Bristol says its goodbyes to Somerfield
The last Somerfield store in Bristol is to close next week, bringing an end to a 137-year association with the city.
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Sainsbury's rolls out 27-strong ethnic trial
Sainsbury’s is trialling a line-up of 27 ethnic products as it ramps up its world food offering.
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Waitrose hit by Facebook fury over broccoli link to biotech giant
Waitrose has found itself in the middle of a social media storm for selling a variety of broccoli linked to biotech company Monsanto.
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Watchdog throws out latest Tesco complaint in ad war with Asda
Asda has won the latest round of its tit-for-tat advertising war with Tesco.
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Six new Little Waitrose for central London
Waitrose has revealed plans to open six Little Waitrose stores in central London this year.
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Sainsbury's turns to new staffing tool
Sainsbury’s is set to roll out a new automated system that it claims will simplify the management of its 150,000 staff.
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco needs to listen... and learn
Tesco’s decision to accelerate the process of change to its core chain was a big surprise to the stock market.
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Comment and Opinion
Supermarkets are unavoidable... even for the wholesalers
At first glance, very little has changed in this year’s Big 30 wholesalers list. Booker is the stand-out, cash & carries are dominant.
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco needed eco-labels
I was disappointed with Tesco’s decision to drop its carbon footprint scheme.
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Comment and Opinion
Time's up for pack differentiation
The level of independents buying from multiples this Christmas increased by an order of magnitude, encouraged by a very evident relaxation of any quantity restrictions in many stores.
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News
Robbins replaced as chief operating officer in Tesco restructure
Tesco has restructured its senior management team - and replaced its under-fire UK COO Bob Robbins.
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Analysis and Features
The Carbon Trust: too slow-footed to save the planet?
Tesco has pulled out of the Trust’s CO2 scheme, but the industry had already been seeking more effective routes to sustainability.