Tesco news and analysis – Page 267

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    Councils gun for Tesco over property deals

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Tesco&'s planning deals are back in the spotlight with one council threatening to move tenants into derelict properties owned by the retailer, while another council is accused of secretive land deals with it. St Albans District...

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    Tesco urges farmers to join organic team

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has launched an initiative aimed at recruiting more British organic farmers and increasing the availability of British-sourced organic meat. The initiative was kickstarted at the Tesco-sponsored Food Animal Initiative in Oxford. The...

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    We're getting into a winning mood

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    All the evidence is that June has been a storming month for the industry in sales terms. The Waitrose numbers show an acceleration in trend, Tesco has mentioned it in passing and this week Sainsbury confirmed that since the Whitsun Bank...

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    Self-checkout

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Self-checkout is the most exciting growth area in customer-facing retail IT, with the majority of the world's leading food retailers trialling or rolling out systems. Self-checkout pioneers include Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Auchan, Casino and...

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    Self-checkout

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Self-checkout is the most exciting growth area in customer-facing retail IT, with the majority of the world&'s leading food retailers trialling or rolling out systems. Self-checkout pioneers include Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Auchan,...

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    Best in show

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Britain's biggest retailer has done it again, walking off with a hat-trick of trophies at this year's awards. Tesco mirrored last year's success by once again taking the coveted titles of Grocer of the Year and Britain's Favourite Supermarket....

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    Best in show

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Tesco comes out tops again in the big threeBritain&'s biggest retailer has done it again, walking off with a hat-trick of trophies at this year&'s awards. Tesco mirrored last year&'s success by once again taking the...

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    Tesco olive branch for small suppliers

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is to improve ranging in Express stores and give smaller suppliers more access to buyers, it told a gathering of hundreds of suppliers. It also told them to speed up new product development and improve order fulfilment to keep Tesco...

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    How to really pack a punch

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was another close call. Asda and Tesco both provided our shoppers with brimming baskets so customer service became the deciding factor. Asda won as our shopper at Asda Gateshead was offered help...

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    inside track

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Tesco's recent announcement that sales of books grew by 52% in its latest financial year (to 25 February 2006) should be good news. But in the book business there is no such thing as a silver lining without a cloud. Publishers fret that...

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    inside track

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Philip Jones, editor, The Bookseller:In the book business, there is no such thing as a silver lining without a cloudTesco&'s recent announcement that sales of books grew by 52% in its latest financial year (to 25 February...

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    Triple whammy Tesco!

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Tesco was voted Britain's best by both consumers and industry experts at The Grocer Gold Awards this week as it walked off with a triumvirate of trophies. The UK's biggest retailer beat strong competition from Waitrose to win Grocer of...

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    Tesco raises milk prices

    2006-06-14T08:04:00Z

    Tesco has increased the price of its fresh milk by 20%.Reports suggest that the retailer has increased the price of a two-pinter of milk by 11p to 64p.A spokesman for the company said that the price increase “better reflected the...

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    New Tesco head of BWS wants the Finest wines

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Tesco plans further growth for its Finest wine range as well as using it to channel new and diverse wines through to the consumer, according to the retailer's new head of beers, wines and spirits. "We can have enormous fun with it," said...

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    Rannoch Smokery cracks multiples

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Rannoch Smokery has secured a listing with Tesco and a trial with Morrisons. Following a trial in selected stores, Rannoch Smokery's premium Smoked Barbary Duck Breast and Smoked Wild Scotch Venison are being rolled out to 180 Tesco...

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    Tesco recycling units to talk to customers

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is to spend £8.9m on 100 giant state-of-the-art speaking recycling centres that can reward customers for recycling waste. The units talk customers through the process of recycling plastics, metals, glass and other materials, while...

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    On queue for great service!

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was a close call between Sainsbury's Kimberley store in Nottingham, and Tesco's Loundwater store in Buckinghamshire. As both stores provided full baskets and flawless customer service,...

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    Waitrose leads in passage to India

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Waitrose has emerged as the unlikely winner in the race to enter the growing grocery sector in India. The supermarket group has beaten Tesco and US retailer Wal-Mart into the country by teaming up with Hypercity, India's first...

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    "Once again, Tesco has raised the bar. It is in competition to catch up that the planet will benefit"

    2006-06-03T00:00:00Z

    My morning ablutions were rudely interrupted, on Monday, by Stuart Rose, announcing on Radio 4 a dramatic new £200m eco-plan. I cut myself shaving as he reeled off some of the 100 exciting initiatives, including plans to go carbon neutral, use...

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    Editors comment: Banking on Tesco to make its latest Big Idea work

    2006-06-03T00:00:00Z

    With the Competition Commission unable to conclude its inquiry into the grocery supermarket industry, we’ve been kept waiting for Tesco’s next ‘Big Idea’, the masterstroke we’ve all come to expect that will see Tesco disappear away from the...