All Grocery articles – Page 641
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GalleryTesco MyLiberec – Liberec, Czech Republic
My Liberec is the first instance of Tesco’s new department store format in the Czech Republic.
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News
February sales volume growth slows
The volume of retail sales in February was 0.4 per cent higher than last year, showing the lowest growth rate since September 1995.
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Thorntons switches EPoS to cut queues
Confectioner Thorntons has improved customer service with a new EPoS system installed in its 380 stores before Christmas.
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Sainsbury's like-for-likes up 6.2% in fourth quarter
Sainsbury’s has revealed like-for-like sales up 6.2 per cent, excluding petrol, in its fourth quarter as its “universal appeal” continues to draw in customers.
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Pension funds pile pressure on M&S over Sir Stuart Rose's power
Further pressure is being piled on M&S to reduce Sir Stuart Rose’s power as chairman and chief executive of the retailer – this time by the National Association of Pension Funds.
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Sir Stuart Rose back in the firing line as M&S confidence plummets
Sir Stuart Rose has come under fresh fire over his position at the top of M&S as shareholder confidence in the executive chairman’s leadership falters.
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Opinion
Food suppliers do their bit
Food suppliers are getting a hard time from the grocers over pressure to bring their prices down. While it is essential that prices remain low for shoppers in the downturn, suppliers are doing their bit.
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Tesco reshuffles non-food team as new chief arrives
Tesco has reshaped its non-food team as former Sainsbury’s general merchandise chief Richard Jones takes up his post at the retailer.
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Morrisons to relaunch 500 lines to up stakes in non-food
Morrisons is to relaunch 500 of its home and leisure lines in the second quarter as it seeks to make its non-food range work harder.
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Asda clinics to save £2m on staff absence
Asda expects to net 2m of cost savings this year by cutting absentee levels when it rolls out in-store occupational health clinics.
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AnalysisJustin King: Making life taste better for everyone
Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King talks exclusively to Jennifer Creevy about defying critics and the grocer’s ‘universal appeal’.
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John Lewis Partnership sales pick up
Sales at department store John Lewis in the week to March 14 dropped 4.1 per cent to 45.1m.
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OpinionIn defence of the landlord
I always like to be controversial, so in my first column I thought I would speak up for retailers’ public enemy number one – the landlord. Landlords are probably viewed with the same disdain as the newly disgraced bankers.
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Morrisons wins Retailer of the Year for second year running
Morrisons was again named Retailer of the Year last night at the Oracle Retail Week Awards .
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AnalysisMy Liberec: A Tesco store, but not as we know it
Virtually no Tesco signage and an array of brands makes the grocer’s first true department store a one-off. John Ryan visits its Czech home.
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NewsSir Stuart Rose: my legacy to M&S
Marks Spencer executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose told the Retail Week Conference that he had three objectives. “I’d like to see the business have a clear passage through the slowdown, to have a coherent plan for here and overseas and a seamless and successful transition to new leadership,” ...
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A happy customer is a spending customer
A happy customer is a spending customer Focus your resource on pleasing your customers whilst limiting the barriers to their spending and your sales line will reap the benefits. 14.25 Panel discussion Gearing up your stores for service and sales Selling solutions, not products: offering an end-to-end service ...
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NewsMarc Bolland: Morrisons well positioned for downturn
Morrisons chief executive Marc Bolland has revealed that the grocer is well positioned to steer through the downturn and that it would also succeed when the economy starts to pick up.
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Unilever's Dave Lewis: understanding nervous consumers key to downturn success
Unilever’s UK and Ireland chairman Dave Lewis has said that understanding customers and their redefined assessment of value will be essential in retaining customers through the downturn.
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Tesco finds small consumer changes adding up
Customers are becoming much more disciplined in the way they shop, and it’s a trend that’s here to stay, Tesco UK marketing director Carolyn Bradley asserted today at the Retail Week Conference.