All Grocery articles – Page 665
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Sainsbury’s to up convenience stores as shoppers stay local
Sainsbury’s is to step up the growth of its convenience store business as customers increasingly shop locally in the downturn.
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Asda reports like-for-like sales up 6.9 per cent
Asda has revealed its like-for-like sales, excluding petrol, have jumped 6.9 per cent in its third quarter, driven by increased customer numbers and higher basket spend.
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Analysis
Marks & Spencer: Top marks
M&S’s new store at Westfield London is a prototype in many ways, but it is also the outcome of more than four years’ work on different store formats. John Ryan tours its latest development.
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AnalysisCost cutting: The lean machine
In these cash-strapped times deep and sustainable cost cutting is the name of the game. Charlotte Hardie looks at how retailers can trim the fat without their service suffering.
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Waitrose debuts overseas with Dubai store opening
Waitrose unveiled its first overseas store last week at the Dubai Mall with a design based on a market concept.
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Majestic profits plummet 25% as champagne loses its fizz
Majestic Wine suffered a 25.5 per cent drop in first-half pre-tax profits after champagne sales slumped as corporate customers slashed expenditure.
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Analysts hail Tesco’s Far East growth plan
The financial sun is rising on Tesco’s Far Eastern businesses, analysts believe following a tour of stores in the region.
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An October to forget spells out mountain to climb at Christmas
The downward pressure on retail share prices lightened a little following last week’s swingeing interest rate cut but, the scale of the industry’s difficulties were reflected in appalling British Retail Consortium sales figures.
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Opinion
Retailers need to pull together
It’s only one month and not the three required to meet the technical definition, but the October total sales decline announced by the British Retail Consortium this week confirms that retail is entering recession.
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Aldi set to offer cheap holidays on travel site
Discounter Aldi is set to launch a travel website offering customers cheap holidays.
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Netto UK boss Richard Lancaster quits
Netto UK managing director Richard Lancaster has resigned to join another retailer.
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Tesco adds movies and TV to download site
Tesco has added movies and TV shows to its digital download site Tesco Digital.
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Co-op extends use of voice-enabled picking
Co-op is continuing its roll-out of voice-enabled picking technology, with plans for two more distribution centres to go live with the technology in the first half of next year.
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Entry deadline extended for the Oracle Retail Week Awards
The industry is currently making exceptional efforts to ensure margins are maintained whilst continuing to improve the customer experience.
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Fresh & Easy: Tesco may be forced to slow US roll-out
Tesco’s US chief said the roll-out of its fledgling Fresh Easy business could be forced to slow down because of the meltdown in the American economy.
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Sainsbury's reports interim profits leap
Supermarket group Sainsbury’s generated a surge in first-half earnings on the back of “universal customer appeal”, chief executive Justin King has said.
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Retailers' Christmas will not be cancelled, survey shows
Christmas will retain its sparkle this year as the majority of consumers plan to spend the same amount as last year, according to new research.
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Food discounters' market share at record level
The discount food retailing sector is soaring and has reached a record 6.2 per cent of the market for the 12 weeks to November 2, according to figures from TNS.
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Asda defies slowing supermarket growth trend
Supermarket sales growth slowed in the 12 weeks to November 1, from 5.4 per cent to 5.1 per cent, although Asda defied the trend with a rise of 8.7 per cent, according to figures released today by Nielsen.
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Tesco boss calls for delay of business rates revaluation
Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy today said that the business rates revaluation set for 2010 should be postponed to allow retailers to steer their way through the downturn.