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C-charge will cost JLP £200,000
London's congestion charge, which swings into action on February 17, will cost John Lewis at least £200,000 a year, the partnership has calculated. Of this, roughly £84,000 will be needed to service three Waitrose stores in the charging zone,...
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Waitrose eyes factory gate
Waitrose is exploring opportunities to implement factory gate pricing and open book costing with suppliers. Director of buying Angela Megson said talks were at an early stage: "Our supply chain team has been working with a number of suppliers to...
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Waitrose gets Royal seal of approval
Waitrose has become the first supermarket chain to be granted a Royal Warrant by the Queen.Warrants recognise people or companies that regularly supply goods or services to certain members of the Royal Family, and allow recipients to display...
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Latina Brands has scored a hit with its debut range of moder
Launched in November last year in Waitrose and Sainsbury, the majority have been snapped up by other major retailers, including Safeway and Asda, and the range has gained praise from such hard-to-please critics as the Observer Food Monthly magazine....
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Pat on back for Waitrose
Waitrose has been commended for its innovative environment in a report by Accenture and the Talent Foundation. Innovation A Way of Being' praised the retailer for giving its permanent employees a stake in the ownership of the firm by making...
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Multiples to monitor taint
Tesco, Sainsbury and Waitrose are planning to take part in an ambitious project to trial a new cork designed to limit wine taint. Sabaté, the French cork manufacturer, has produced 100,000 corks which are guaranteed to have half the amount of...
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Ocado seeks new hubs
Anne Bruce Ocado is looking for satellite distribution centres in the south and a second main depot in the north as demand takes off, according to joint MD Roger Whiteside. The Waitrose supplied online shopping service is now taking up to...
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Tesco vegetarians' favourite this year
Tesco beat Waitrose and Sainsbury to walk away with the best supermarket accolade at this year's Vegetarian Society awards. The awards were voted for by a panel including celebrity chefs Richard Cawley and Rose Elliot and singer Hazel O'Connor...
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A dogfight down in Docklands
The Waitrose Food and Home store in Canary Wharf is testament to the changes that have occurred in London's Docklands over the past 10 years. It provides the first serious competition to Asda's Docklands store in an area which, until recently, was...
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Waitrose promotes UK regional organics
Waitrose has launched its largest ever organic food and drink promotion with all 137 stores offering discounts on more than 100 own label and branded organic lines in October and November.Waitrose has previously pledged to maintain premium...
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Source tags eyed by Waitrose
Anne Bruce Waitrose has become the latest UK supermarket to develop source tagging capabilities as momentum builds behind the technology. Marks and Spencer, Safeway, Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury are also conducting analysis and trials of the...
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Ocado gets its first test
Waitrose's online joint venture Ocado was launched with promises of better customer service. Our fifth online shop, and the first to feature the service, shows that so far it is living up to its claims. Our shopper, new to the service, described the...
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Exclusive avocado
Waitrose has won exclusive rights to sell a new variety of giant avocado called Nature's Haas. Bred by Westfalia, one of South Africa's best known grower exporters, the fruit went on sale in 60 selected stores this week. As this is the...
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New ideas at the Wharf
Julian Hunt New ideas in fresh foods top the menu at Waitrose's latest store  the 80,000 sq ft Food & Home in London's Canary Wharf, which opened this week. The store offers a salad and juice bar, sushi bar, steak and oyster bar, Eat In,...
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Walk into the Waitrose Food & Home in London's Canary Wharf
Fresh food and food to go topped the agenda for the team responsible for developing the store. And they have spent two years scouring the globe looking for ideas that would build on what Waitrose was already doing in this area to give it an edge...
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Ocado heralds arrival on the London stage
Anne Bruce Waitrose online joint venture Ocado is to start a £2m poster, press and TV campaign in London this week to build its brand across the M25 region before launching in other UK cities. Joint md Nigel Robertson said: "This announces...
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Perrier launches diet aid water Contrex
Perrier Vittel has become the latest company to push mineral water as a slimming aid with the launch of Contrex in the UK. Initially rolling out exclusively through Waitrose, Contrex  which comes from the Vosges region of France  is said to...
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Self-scanning boosts loyalty at Waitrose
Waitrose has posted a rise in interim like-for-like sales of 3.5% as the supermarket prepares to open its first new store since the Autumn of 2000.The chain said the introduction of its hand-held self-scanning system had reduced costs and...
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Elevating the humble spud
A specialised web site has been designed to turn the humble spud into something of a hot potato. Waitrose has launched an educational web site to give its customers a greater insight into a vegetable that is often overlooked. John Foley,...
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ÂAnd where the rest fell down
Waitrose Date of shopping trip: 25.10.02 Time taken in store: 45 minsMonmouth Time of shopping trip: 11.46 Time taken at checkout: 5 mins ...