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Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose
Asda will be stealing customers from Waitrose when it triples its organic range later this year and starts rolling out compostable packaging, its head of corporate social responsibility claimed this week.Ian Bowles said Asda's organic...
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Aerosol recycling urged by retailers
Waitrose and M&S are bidding to raise awareness of aerosol can recycling through PoS material. New shelf barkers going in store will advise: "Recycle your empty aerosols. Visit www.recycleaerosols.co.uk."The website is operated by the...
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Waitrose's UK farms get LEAF certification
Waitrose shoppers will be able to eat their greens with an easier conscience after the high-end food retailer announced it had raised the bar on environmental protection for its UK growers.In a first for the retail sector, all of...
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"Behind the scenes at the Labour Party conference there was the faintest whiff of optimism"
Are we in the middle of the two weeks that will change the face of the world - or at least of planet grocery? This week Waitrose, Nisa-Today's and the ACS put their cases to the Competition Commission in its investigation into the market. Next...
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waitrose, bloomsbury
Emerge blinking from the bowels of Russell Square underground station in central London and you'll find yourself at the Brunswick - the retail and accommodation complex that has become an icon of 1960s architecture and is now Grade II...
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Talking shop
Supporting Britain's farmers has always been at the heart of Waitrose, and as a supermarket we have a duty and a desire to do this, says Peter Cooke, Waitrose vegetable buyer. As a buying team we work in close partnership with our farmer...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
The Waitrose store in Sandbach, Cheshire, won The Grocer 33 Top Store Award this time last year. At the time, manager Andy Woodcock had run the store for three years, spanning its ownership by first Safeway and then Waitrose.In October...
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New World wines come to Waitrose
Waitrose is to launch a New World Wine Showcase in September, including a selection of new and limited availability wines. The launch will take place in all of its branches between 4 and 24 September, and it will include 30 new wines, 21...
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Esom: 'Rivals charge more for stripped down products'
Waitrose MD Steven Esom has hit out at rival supermarkets for not selling more effectively the benefits of provenance, traceability and sourcing of food. In the retailer's 2006 corporate social responsibility report, Esom said that...
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Westerham beers listed by Waitrose
A Kent brewery is launching two of its bottled beers into selected Waitrose stores as part of the supermarket's locally produced initiative.The Westerham Brewery in Kent will supply 13 of Waitrose's stores in the south east with its 4%...
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Waitrose rolls out software to second-guess customers
Waitrose is hoping to cash in on extra shopper spend around special events and good weather with the roll out of a new system to improve the forecasting of customer demand. The software, supplied by SAS, is designed to put an end to under...
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Supermarkets look at organic Argentine line
Organic Argentine beef could soon appear on supermarket shelves after fruitful discussions with several retailers. Prime cuts of Aberdeen Angus and Hereford beef are being exported to the UK by Pampas Plains, which said Waitrose was very...
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Waitrose aims high for chicken welfare
Waitrose has staked a claim for the highest welfare standards on supermarket chicken. From September, the stocking density of its Select Farm Chicken will be 10% lower than the industry standard in an effort to raise the bar in animal...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
Andy Kirby, manager of Waitrose's mammoth Food + Home store in Sheffield, was our winning manager this time last year. Kirby has since left Sheffield and is currently on secondment at the chain's new Barbican store in London. He said:...
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Waitrose 'ugly fruit' sales strong
Sales of Waitrose's 'ugly fruit' for cooking purposes are strong, the supermarket group's parent company the John Lewis Partnership has said.The group revealed that since the launch of the culinary fruit last month, it had sold 17 tonnes of...
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Hodgson to replace Megson at Waitrose
Richard Hodgson, brand and marketing director for Asda, has been appointed as the replacement for Angela Megson as director of buying for Waitrose.Hodgson takes up his new role in the autumn. He has worked at Asda for a number of years...
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Star Buyer Adrian Gash
Gash has been with Waitrose for two years, joining from Safeway, where he spent six years, covering pharmaceuticals and healthcare, bread and then crisps. His earlier career included three years with Unichem and spells with Peter Black...
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Waitrose snaps up Morrisons stores
Morrisons has sold six stores and a non-operational distribution site to Waitrose. The stores are situated at Eastbourne, Formby, Hexham, Lymington, Parkstone and Portswood, while the distribution site is located in...
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Waitrose link to be boosted
Channel Islands retailer CI Traders is poised to expand the range of Waitrose own label products available in its Checkers stores.CI chief executive Martin Bralsford said: "We are in discussion with Waitrose about ways in which we can...
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Second opinion Waitrose is being praised for its initiative to sell ugly fruit as a sideline for makers of jam. Great! But hang on a minute...
Waitrose must be delighted by the favourable publicity generated by its decision to put a small range of Grade II fruit on its shelves. Of course the idea of 'ugly fruit' was a straight lift from the National Trust. It came up with the original...