Waitrose news and analysis – Page 82
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Analysis & FeaturesWaitrose Pick Your Own Offers hailed as 'groundbreaking'
Supermarket promotions were back in the headlines this week as Waitrose launched its Pick Your Own Offers initiative…
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Grocer 33Tanja Chisnall, Waitrose Poynton: Grocer 33 store of the week
”We were one of the first branches to be fitted with the new welcome desk format two years ago”
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Grocer 33Waitrose Poynton's G33 service win down to 'great' staff
As the Grocer 33 year begins again, Waitrose Poynton pipped Asda Liverpool to become our first store of the week for 2015/16
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NewsWaitrose appoints finance director from John Lewis
Loraine Woodhouse will become Waitrose’s new finance director on 5 October
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NewsNew Waitrose 'Pick Your Own Offers' will be consumer-tailored discount scheme
MD Mark Price suggests the scheme will “revolutionise” promotions
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NewsWaitrose launches first Prosecco magnum
Rolling out from this week, the San Leo Prosecco Magnum (rsp: £20.99) contains 1,500ml of wine versus the 750ml in a standard bottle
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NewsWaitrose saves big with air efficiency at new distribution centre
The Buckinghamshire DC is expected to save the supermarket group £7,400 a year in energy costs rising to £222,000 over the building’s lifetime
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NewsWaitrose trials 'Pick Your Own Offers' using myWaitrose card
The ‘Pick Your Own Offers’ scheme, which is currently being trialled at five Waitrose stores, will give shoppers armed with a myWaitrose card a long list of branded and own-label products to select their favourite from
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NewsCity snapshot: Waitrose sees first quarter sales growth of 0.9%
The fall of Easter in 2014 continues to distort Waitrose’s weekly sales figures, with sales for the week to 25 April up 9.5% year-on-year
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NewsWaitrose re-launches Florist and Gifts websites
Both the websites have been redesigned to offer a ‘much improved’ customer journey, which makes sending a gift to someone special ‘convenient and easy’
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NewsUdi's Gluten Free bags Waitrose listing for 16 lines
Udi’s Gluten Free has won a Waitrose listing for 16 products…
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NewsWaitrose fixes glitch that gave shoppers money back at tills
The glitch occurred when the tills failed to remove promotions on products reduced at the end of the day
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NewsMedia bites 13 March: Morrisons, Waitrose, BHS
Not unexpectedly, Morrisons’ near £800m loss yesterday gets plenty of coverage with most of the focus on the £1.3bn property write-down and the closing of 23 convenience stores.
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NewsCity snapshot: Waitrose's weekly sales tick up after annual profit fall
There was some cheer for Waitrose bosses this morning as its weekly sales ticked up slightly after their recent flatlining
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NewsWaitrose commits to Tesco price match promise in the face of plummeting profits
Waitrose has reaffirmed its commitment to continue matching Tesco on branded goods in 2015 despite its profits plunging by almost a quarter in the previous year.
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NewsWaitrose operating profits tumble 23.4%
A significantly higher level of investment and one-off items have bitten a large chunk out of Waitrose’s operating profits
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Analysis & FeaturesWaitrose profits face a price war pummelling
Waitrose annual results next week are expected to show the supermarket is increasingly being dragged down into the price war
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NewsCity snapshot: Waitrose continues to find 2015 hard going
Waitrose is continuing to find trading tough in 2015, with headline sales rising by just 0.3% in the week to 28 February. Plus, the FTSE 100 hits a record high, investors back Nicholls and all the latest news from the City.
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NewsWaitrose becomes first retailer to join forces with the Fairtrade Foundation
The new partnership will see Fairtrade now officially recognise and validate the work of the 10-year old Waitrose Foundation
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NewsWaitrose: We won't price match Tesco if we break GSCOP rules
Waitrose blames below-cost booze pledges and GSCOP rules for failure to match more than a third of Tesco’s new prices…