All Supermarkets articles – Page 319
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NewsSainsbury’s: our web BWS must do better
Sainsbury's plans to relaunch its online beer, wines and spirits platform after admitting it "needs to do better". Online sales currently represent just 3% of Sainsbury's total BWS sales compared with the 10% of Tesco's £2bn UK wine...
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NewsTesco listing for Arla Middle Eastern lines
Arla has stolen a further march on the UK's ethnic market by quietly rolling out more products from its Middle Eastern Puck range. Puck Cream Cheese Spread (240g), Puck Medium Style Cheese (500g) and Puck Vegetable Cream (170g) went into...
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NewsAsda supply arm IPL quadruples its profits
Asda's strategy of cutting out the middleman by sourcing fresh produce direct appears to be paying dividends. Its direct supply arm, International Produce Limited, made a £6.1m pre-tax profit in the year to 1 January 2011 a £4.6m...
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NewsAsda adds £5 sweetener to Price Guarantee this week
Asda is offering shoppers a £5 sweetener in return for using its Price Guarantee. The supermarket is offering a fiver to anyone who spends £40 on groceries at Asda this week and subsequently uses its online price comparison tool.
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NewsWaitrose products head to New Zealand in new tie-up
Up to 100 Waitrose products will be hitting the shelves of a small New Zealand grocer called Nosh Food Market this Christmas. The two companies have signed a partnership deal that will bring Waitrose products to six Nosh stores.
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Comment and Opinion
Where will it end?
There’s a power dynamic in any relationship, even those where both parties secretly suspect they could do a bit better.
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NewsPrice ‘neutralised’ by Sainsbury’s till match
Price is no longer a competitive advantage. That was the bold claim made by Sainsbury's commercial director Mike Coupe as the retailer rolled out its Brand Match price-matching scheme across the UK this week.
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Comment and Opinion
We must grit our teeth during the downturn and just get on with it
I lost count of the times I was asked what I thought of the IGD Convention this week. Perhaps because I was so rude about it last year…
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NewsClarke: Netto conversion is ‘fantastic innovation’
Asda’s CEO claimed this week that its converted Netto stores had begun to recoup the £778m splashed out by Walmart.
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Analysis and FeaturesIt may be cool, but how much of a gamble is Brand Match?
Sainsbury’s Brand Match is the first price-match scheme to offer an instant voucher at the till. So will it work? Beth Phillips and James Halliwell report
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NewsPosh traditional beef range for Morrisons
Morrisons is set to launch a new premium range of beef from traditional British breeds in the wake of research conducted at the farm it runs in partnership with the Prince of Wales. The retailer has recruited 200 British farmers to...
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Comment and Opinion
Retailers and suppliers will battle
So Waitrose is demanding a 5% cut from suppliers and The Co-operative Group is looking for ‘one-off’ payments of up to 2%.
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Irwin’s Irish Batch Bread rolls into Asda
Northern Irish bakery Irwin's has won its first listing in England for its Irish Batch bread. The bread, rolling into 150 Asda stores across England now, is made using traditional recipes and is not baked in individual tins but at the...
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NewsSakata aims to repeat Oz success story in UK
PepsiCo is bringing a taste of the Orient to the UK with a new range of Japanese rice crackers. The Sakata Rice Crackers brand, worth almost £33m in Australia, has hit UK shelves for the first time in a trial at Waitrose. The four-strong...
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NewsLandmark hits out at Asda for selling Bud 24-pack for £11
Landmark Wholesale MD Martin Williams has slammed Asda for selling lager at a "dramatically cheaper" price than wholesalers can buy it for directly from suppliers. Asda has been selling 24 bottles of 300ml Budweiser for £11 on Rollback...
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NewsBlumenthal’s pine mince pies hit eBay
It’s only been on Waitrose shelves for a few hours, but Heston Blumenthal’s latest festive creation has already hit eBay. The follow-up to his Hidden Orange Christmas Pudding - which was reportedly selling for more than £100 a...
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Sainsbury’s pushes into digital media with £1m acquisition
Sainsbury’s customers will soon be able to buy, rent or stream digital media from the supermarket, following its £1m acquisition of online entertainment company Global Media Vault. GMV runs a white-label entertainment ecommerce....
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NewsThe Co-op claims lead on palm oil with new commitments
The Co-operative Group has claimed it is the largest UK supermarket to certify all of its palm oil as sustainable. The retailer is purchasing accredited GreenPalm certificates from a co-operative of smallholders who are producing sustainable palm oil, accredited by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
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NewsBrand Match goes nationwide at Sainsbury's this week
Sainsbury’s will launch its Brand Match voucher scheme nationwide on Wednesday. The scheme, revealed by The Grocer in June, has been on trial in the supermarket’s 12 Northern Irish stores.
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NewsWaitrose demands a 5% cut from suppliers
As Tesco and Sainsbury’s traded insults this week over whether there is a supermarket price war or not, The Grocer has learnt of suppliers already coming under pressure from two other rivals looking to shore up margins and boost value…