Archive of all Tesco articles – Page 237

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    Try before you buy

    2006-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Its slogan is 'Your neighbourhood grocery store' and its emphasis is on every day low prices, but you can't mistake this giant of natural food retailing for your local Tesco. The US's second biggest natural food retailer doesn't stock many...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited. Total Bonjour, Surbiton, Surrey. Nisa, Woodford, Manchester. Midlands Co-op Measham, Derbyshire. Londis Surbiton, Surrey. Tesco Express, Clifton, Bristol. How they performed. Our...

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    Non food

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    You can have your toast and eat it. If you shop at Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's that is - where the price of a two slice electrical toaster has fallen below the £5 mark. Competition between the major multiples in the cheap electric...

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    "If you pop into Tesco in Hungary, you can find strawberries piled up in pyramids. You'll never find those here"

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    I've got to admit I have a certain amount of sympathy with Ben Bradshaw's call to cut food and drink packaging. If it's not thick plastic wrapped around my broccoli, or pre-wrapped bananas, it's packets of tea with individually wrapped sachets....

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    New electric vans to deliver Tesco goods

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Tesco home-shoppers can expect deliveries by a new concept electric van next year after the chain bought 15 of the environmentally friendly vehicles for its dotcom service. The vans do not emit CO2 and are powered by a battery that can...

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    Tesco to make a splash with beauty launch

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is embarking on its biggest ever beauty product launch next February after recruiting celebrated experts to help it create 180 new products. Gardening expert Rachel de Thame and A Place in The Sun presenter Jasmine Harman are among...

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    The Co-op bares its soul

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Below cost selling, price flexing and applying restrictive covenants to land. Typical of Tesco? Asda? Sainsbury's? No - it's the Co-operative Group. The society, which prides itself on its ethical approach to business, this week published...

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    Toaster buyers get change from fiver as Asda extends its non food pricing lead

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Asda has extended its lead over Tesco in the fight to be the UK's cheapest supermarket for non food items.  The Grocer 33's latest non food report reveals that at £177.62, the cost of Tesco's 33-item shopping basket including clothes is...

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    Tesco backing trend of reduced alcohol drinks

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is the latest supermarket to put its weight behind the emerging consumer trend for lower alcoholic products. The retailer said its latest sales data showed an increasing number of British drinkers were turning away from strong wines...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited. Costcutter, Lodway, Bristol,  One stop, Station Road, Horsham. Budgens, Tolworth, Surrey Spar, Amersham Road, Bucks. Tesco Express, Wellingborough Road, Northamptonshire. How they...

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    Profile Revisited

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    It already faced Tesco. With Asda's arrival on the Northern Ireland scene, the ­Henderson Group faces another big, aggressive supermarket. And M&S also is doing well with its Simply Foods format. Yet ­Henderson, a wholesaler and retailer, is...

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    Price Survey

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    A change in country of origin has sparked a dramatic increase in the price of red seedless grapes this week. The average price of a 1kg punnet has risen by an average of 11.8% with Tesco sporting the most significant increase of the six other...

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    Star order

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Tesco.com was the clear winner of this quarter's Star Order Award for online shopping excellence. While our mystery web shopper was already registered with the system, this was the first time that she had ever attempted to do an online...

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    Tesco backing S&A in ongoing worker row

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Tesco and Sainbury's are standing by soft fruit grower S&A as it clashes again with unions. The Herefordshire strawberry growing co-op came under the spotlight earlier in the year after the TGWU received complaints from 200 migrant...

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    Online battle intensifies as Asda ramps up coverage

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    The battle for the online pound is on. This week, Asda disclosed details of its online rollout, first revealed in The Grocer in September, just days after Tesco announced plans to launch an online clothing trial parallel to its non food site,...

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    "Asda and Ocado are targeting the grocery market. M&S is focusing on non food. And Tesco is sizing up, well, everything"

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    All hell broke loose on the internet shopping news front this week. Asda announced plans to hire 1,800 staff as it gears up its web-based operations, Sainsbury's took its online offering to Northern Ireland, and M&S declared that it was keen to...

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    Tesco Ireland aims to catch up with UK

    2006-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Tesco Ireland is to build a national distribution centre at Donabate in County Dublin, at a cost of €70m. The centre, due to be in operation by next April, will have a handling capacity of one million cases of goods a week. It will manage...

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    Wine awards slammed

    2006-11-10T07:39:00Z

    Tesco has defended wine awards in the face of criticism from food and wine taster Martin Isark that they are nothing but meaningless, money-making schemes.Winemakers can pay up to £120 for entry to such competitions, knowing there is a...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Who we visitedMace Hamilton Express, Cregagh Road, County Antrim, NI Nisa, Chapel House Drive, Newcastle-upon-Tynesainsbury's Local, South Ealing Road, Londonspar, Freehold Road, Ipswich, Suffolktesco...

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    Supermarkets head down quantity street

    2006-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Retailers are slashing prices on some of the biggest Christmas confectionery brands, a move that could herald the start of festive season price wars in the category.The deep discounting has been initiated by Tesco and Sainsbury's, which...