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The Co-op news and analysis – Page 110
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Fresh look for Southern Co-ops
Ed Bedington A fresh new look is on trial at one multiple to help boost fresh produces sales. The fresh produce display has been given a makeover by Southern Co-operatives at one of the society's stores in Portsmouth. Graphics of green...
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Suppliers help sharpen display
Ed Bedington Special advisors are being used to give one retailer the edge in banana sales. Somerfield has entered a joint initiative with fresh produce giants Fyffes and JP to improve handling and merchandising. The two rival suppliers...
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Group logistics director Martin Oakes believes operational i
Somerfield is a more positive retailer nowadays and this confidence stretches to logistics where it aims to move so far forward it sets standards for other retailers. A tall order, perhaps, but one which group logistics director Martin Oakes...
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BLOSSOM BOXED Blossom Hill is moving into the Bag in Box for
The brand claims the drink will stay fresh for up to six weeks once opened. Priced at £16.99 it will be available in Somerfield from mid August and in Sainsbury a month later. Distributor Percy Fox said wine boxes had suffered from a negative...
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Morrisons Tesco Safeway Sainsbury Co-op Safeway Asda Somerfield Wheatcroft Extra Congleton Newton Abbot ...
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Morrisons keeps up the pace
Morrisons remains at the top of the retailer share chart for a fourth week running, with 35% share of promotional space, followed by Asda with 24% and Tesco with 16%. Safeway and Sainsbury follow, with Somerfield again finishing bottom of the...
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Somerfield pushes meat into fast lane
By Ed Bedington A major project to improve Somerfield's meat offering is currently being rolled out. The move to distribute centrally packed meat to all of the grocer's stores is being described as its biggest ever meat project, and the...
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Delivering the goods
Bringing the distribution operations together has yielded major savings, says Liam McLoughlin The revised Somerfield logistics operation created by the merger faced one overriding problem there were too many distribution centres. Consequently,...
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Asda has been voted the nation's favourite store for the sec
The ACNielsen Homescan survey of 6,630 households in May quizzed consumers about where they liked to shop and asked them to choose between Asda, the Co-operative Group, Kwik Save, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury,...
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Morrisons dominates promotions with Somerfield at bottom of
Morrisons remains at the top of the retailer activity chart for a third week running, with 35.41% share of promotional space followed by Asda and Tesco respectively. Somerfield finished bottom of the table this week with a 4.53% share. Activity...
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West Midlands Co-op puts Moss in driver's seat at Bloxwich
West Midlands Co-op has promoted Andy Moss to manager of its food store in Bloxwich. Moss has spent 10 years with the society, starting as a student before becoming duty manager at the Codsall store. He was previously deputy manager at the group's...
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Somerfield hits back at FoE attack over residues
Ed Bedington Somerfield has hit back at environmental campaigners, branding their report into pesticide residue levels as "scandalous". Friends of the Earth had placed the multiple top of a league table of nine retailers, claiming 60% of its fruit...
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Isigny co-op aims to lead in premium dairy niche
Kit Davies Normandy France's Isigny-Sainte-Mère has declared its ambition to become the leading supplier in the premium dairy product niche in Britain. The Normandy co-operative has boosted its UK sales and marketing team to seven personnel in a...
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Tesco falls to the Co-op after coming a cropper on spuds
The United Co-op's refurbished store at Wollaton in Nottingham had this week's cheapest basket at £40.05, beating off competition from Somerfield in Norfolk and Safeway in Glasgow. Our shopper found the busy Co-op clean and tidy, with smartly...
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Keeping pace with the FTSE 100
Somerfield has proven surprisingly resilient as shares took another battering this month says Helen Gregory It's tempting to offload our shares as prices dip yet again this month, but we'll hang in there and hope, like most investors, that the...
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Keeping pace with the FTSE 100
Somerfield has proven surprisingly resilient as shares took another battering this month says Helen Gregory It's tempting to offload our shares as prices dip yet again this month, but we'll hang in there and hope, like most investors, that the...
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And where the rest fell down
Somerfield Date of shopping trip: 21.6.02 Time taken in store: 33 minsHaslemere Time of shopping trip: 10.02 Time taken at checkout: 3 mins ...
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For stores not giving things away, Waitrose is cheapest
Waitrose in Brighton, Asda in Hartlepool and Somerfield in Ilkeston checked in full baskets this week. Technically, Asda had the cheapest basket but it failed to charge for the mushrooms and the cheese was cheaper than the price on the label....
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A radical pack redesign featuring boiled eggs, cucumber, tom
Sales Information Resources has recorded sales of £195m for Hovis, an increase of 26.4% for the year ending May 19, 2002 across multiple grocers and co-ops, compared to a rise of 5.8% for the £793m pre-packed bread market. The company says "The...