Archive of all Waitrose articles – Page 120
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
They've been fully converted Need someone to convert a batch of Somerfields into slick, fully fledged Waitrose operations - fast? Bill Bishop's your man. The head of selling servies spoke to Tim Palmer If you want to know how to go about opening...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The challenges of cyberspace The internet is taking Waitrose into whole new areas - giving director of selling and marketing Mark Price the task of making sure each element meets the standards set by stores. He tells Belinda Gannaway why this job...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
The partners and the principles When John Spedan Lewis first set up a retail outlet based on egalitarian principles, he could not have foreseen the intensively competitive world in which we now live. So how do Waitrose principles hold up today? Sue...
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Waitrose: a supplement to The Grocer
Those natural impulses Organic food has been a Waitrose obsession for nearly 20 years, but it is only six years since the niche achieved profit. Camilla Palmer talks to chief agronomist Alan Wilson Organic food has become something of a passion at...
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Multiples: Waitrose boss spells out future plans
Sales at Waitrose are on course to smash through the £2bn barrier this year. And md David Felwick said he was confident the chain would not be hit as Sainsbury, Safeway and Marks and Spencer try to rebuild their food businesses. "It is interesting...
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The Grocer focus on ethnic food:
Lunchboxes with a difference Sushi is rapidly becoming the smart alternative to lunchtime sandwiches and conventional party canapés thanks to the efforts of Waitrose and Marks and Spencer among others. Waitrose was the first multiple to take...
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TOMATOES: I'm all right Jack, but
A new variety of British beef tomato is being sold exclusively through Waitrose. Jack Hawkins, which retails at £2.79/kg, grows to between 65mm and 85mm and ranges in colour from light orange to red. A spokesman for the Tomato Growers'...
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Suppliers to access Waitrose system
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Waitrose plans to strengthen its relationships with suppliers by giving them access to its systems. From this month, Waitrose is rolling out a new holistic system called PCW Connect Product Control Workbench to manage...
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Waitrose extension on track
Waitrose is on target to reopen the 11 Somerfield stores it bought in January by the end of July. The multiple is currently refurbishing three stores at Sudbury, Paddock Wood and Hythe and they are scheduled to reopen on May 24, 31 and June 1...
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A stretching' rebranding
Waitrose will reopen three of its rebranded Somerfield stores by June. But the store openings, in Sudbury, Paddock Wood and Hythe, will mean Waitrose's services department will be "uncomfortably stretched", as the company rushes to open the other...
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Milk price fixing' issue
UK multiples say they could face the wrath of government competition officials if they step in to help British dairy farmers by fixing the price of milk. Safeway and Waitrose say they would keep their prices stable in the wake of a demonstration in...
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Shop and go for Waitrose
Waitrose is to highlight a raft of last minute holiday deals through waitrose.com as part of plans to make the site a "one stop cyber shop". The move comes in the wake of a link-up with BA Travel Shop that will provide holiday offers including...
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Waitrose aiming to reactivate interest in traditional but forgotten fruit
Multiples back moves to develop niche varieties
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Partners' 26p premium pinta
Waitrose is launching premium farm assured milk on Monday and pegging the new lines in its 121 stores at its normal retail price of 26p a pint. The range of full fat, semi skim and skimmed milk will be marketed in screw top cartons under the...