All Grocery articles – Page 682
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News
Waitrose opens third market town store
Waitrose opened its latest market town store last week at Brackley in Northamptonshire.
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Opinion
Discounters have a chance to turn shoppers for good
Shoppers are voting with their feet and figures released this week show that consumer spend in discount supermarkets has reached record levels.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – July 25, 2008
The retail market may be volatile at the moment, but this doesn’t explain the extraordinary ups and downs in the official retail sales figures produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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News
Rose’s dual role under fire again
The backlash over Sir Stuart Rose’s dual role of chief executive and executive chairman at Marks & Spencer faces renewed opposition, this time from the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).
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News
John Lewis Sale drives trade
Department store chain John Lewis’s sales were in positive territory for the second week running, helped by the clearance of Sale items.
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M&S victorious in stolen laptop data protection row
Marks & Spencer has avoided a courtroom showdown and substantial fine after winning an appeal against the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data leak.
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Price war hots up as Netto slashes staples
Danish discount supermarket Netto has waded into the UK’s grocery price war by slashing the price of key staple items.
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Share bounce does little to ease pressure as City remains bullish
Retailers rallied after the misery of the past few weeks, but the mood among many sector analysts remained resolutely downbeat.
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Analysis
Let the festivities begin
Christmas will be here before we know it and retailers are gearing up to make the most of what is normally their most profitable time of year. But with a recession looming, what can retailers do to ensure they don’t get left out in the cold, asks Katie Kilgallen.
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News
Delhaize warns on profits as hard discounters steal share
International grocery chain Delhaize has warned profits will fall short of expectations as the consumer downturn bites.
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M&S hails bag charging scheme a success
Marks & Spencer’s controversial 5p food carrier bag charge has resulted in an 80 per cent drop in the number of bags used since the scheme’s introduction in May.
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News
Nisa-Today’s to use web tool for local sourcing
Nisa-Today’s is to use an online application to trade with the suppliers it recruits to its local sourcing initiative.
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Discount grocers pull in record share
Discount retailers account for 5.9 per cent of grocery spend in the UK – their highest figure reported to date – and are the fastest-growing sector of the market.
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Tesco to revive British tea break
Tesco is to give away tea and biscuits at 252 stores across the UK this week in an effort to revive the traditional British tea break and lift sales.
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News
Grocers cut petrol prices
Supermarkets Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s will lower petrol prices, in a move prompted by falling oil prices.
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Ocado to expand beyond food
Ocado is to expand beyond food into areas such as clothing and health and beauty as it notches up sales of 1 billion.
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News
Families’ disposable income still shrinking
The average family is 9 a week worse off compared with June last year, Asda’s income tracker has found.
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News
Tesco to build straw-powered energy plant
Tesco has been given the go ahead to build Britain’s first straw-powered, combined heat and power plant.
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Opinion
Co-op should focus on what it does best
The long-awaited Co-op-Somerfield deal was finally completed this week with little pomp and ceremony.