Archive of all Waitrose articles – Page 97
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Taking the work out of vegetables
Waitrose has launched a new range of pre-prepared seasonal vegetables to make life easier for shoppers in the kitchen. The mixes are touted as ideal additions to soups, casseroles and stews. The range includes Vegetable & Bean Casserole, Irish Stew,...
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Booths defies crunch with profit rising 73%
Upmarket northern supermarket chain Booths has defied the economic gloom by notching up a 3.8% increase in full-year like-for-like sales – ahead of its much larger rivals Marks & Spencer and Waitrose. Pre-tax profit jumped 73% to £6.9m on sales up...
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In Season: Mackerel
The credit crunch has had a positive impact on the sales of one type of fish at least, with Waitrose reporting a 76% year-on-year volume increase in mackerel sales. Shoppers were choosing mackerel because it cost a third of the price of cod, the...
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Waitrose offering a drop of the God stuff
God is hitting the drinks aisle at Waitrose in the form of a new lager from Sweden. God Lager – whose names translates as ‘good’ in Swedish – is produced by the Nils Oscar micro-brewery. The dark lager is bottled at 5.3% abv in 33cl packs and will...
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Waitrose, Booths alliance 'is not prelude to merger’
Waitrose has ruled out a future acquisition of northern chain Booths, after the two retailers announced plans to join forces on a new buying alliance. The move will allow both retailers to make savings by negotiating together on branded goods....
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NewsGrocer 33: A Waitrose a notch above the others
High-quality products and excellent availability as well as friendly and chatty staff helped Waitrose in Billericay land this week’s Top Store award
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Waitrose, Booths shake on surprise buying alliance
Waitrose has signed a surprise deal with supermarket rival Booths to pool their resources and share buying duties on a range of products. Booths, which enjoys a similarly upmarket reputation to its larger partner, will co-operate with Waitrose on sourcing a number of products in a bid to lower costs.
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M&S scorns claims Waitrose is cheaper
Marks & Spencer this week hit back at claims by John Lewis that Waitrose is 10% cheaper. John Dixon, M&S’s director of food, said he was surprised at John Lewis’s chairman Charlie Mayfield’s comments. M&S products cost the same or less than at...
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Charlie’s class conflict
There’s no escaping class in the UK. Last week former Fast Show funnyman and kids’ author Charlie Higson was scoping out his local Waitrose researching a new book about a post-apocalyptic world without adults. The book sees one gang of middle-class...
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Premium grocer Waitrose says it’s cheaper than Aldi
It is known as a premium retailer and is always the most expensive supermarket in The Grocer 33 weekly pricing survey. Yet this week, Waitrose claimed it was cheaper than hard discounter Aldi – in six of its 25 categories at least. Unveiling a 2.5%...
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Gooseberries: rain or shine
Sales of cooking gooseberries at Waitrose have risen by 91% this season compared with last year, an increase the retailer put down to the adaptability of the fruit to British weather. Waitrose, which also reported that sales of its later-season...
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Waitrose turns waste into green electricity
Waitrose is planning to use waste food to generate electricity, instead of sending it to landfill, after a three-month trial at five stores. A total of 71 tonnes of food waste produced at the five stores in the Midlands was sent to Cawley’s in...
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Morrisons, Waitrose get regional nod
Morrisons, Waitrose get regional nod: Morrisons, Waitrose and Booths have all been named regional winners at this year’s Retail Cheese Awards. Booths in Lytham, Morrisons in Stamford and Waitrose in Burgess Hill won in the multiple retailer section for the north, central and south...
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Ruddock warns of tax if stores fail bag target
Waitrose is on track to cut carrier bag use by 50% by the end of the year – but will have to increase this to 70% by next spring if it wants to avoid charging consumers, the government has warned. Environment minister Joan Ruddock said that in the...
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Waitrose shoppers go for brown meat
It seems even Waitrose customers are feeling the pinch, with the retailer revealing this week that shoppers are opting for cheaper poultry cuts. Waitrose said that although customers were still defying the economic downturn to buy free-range...
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Waitrose readies itself to take on convenience
Waitrose has appointed Anthony Wysome as head of convenience to oversee a new wave of small shops, the first of which could open early next year. Wysome was promoted from senior project manager to take charge of plans to expand into the...
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Q&A with Paul Reeley Store manager of the week
Who are your biggest competitors? Our main one is Tesco which is currently undergoing an extension. There's also an Aldi in Sudbury but our customers are extremely loyal to the Waitrose brand. Would you like to change anything...
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Waitrose offers grapes of wrath
Bogoffer of the Week is the 'buy one, get an agonising drawn-out death free' promotion unofficially being run at the Northampton outpost of Waitrose.The Barron family was delighted last week to find one of nature's deadliest predators...
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Esom leaves Marks & Spencer
Steven Esom, director of food at Marks & Spencer, has left the company as the retailer reports a 4.5% drop in like-for-like first-quarter food sales.Esom had been head of food at M&S since joining in June last year from Waitrose where he was...
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waitrose plays the beautiful game
In one of the clearest signs yet that football has left its working class roots far behind, Waitrose has become the first national supermarket chain to sponsor a major football club.Waitrose has a agreed a one-year deal, believed to be...