All Grocery articles – Page 687
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M&S to anchor southeast Irish scheme
Marks & Spencer is to open its first store in the southeast of Ireland at the Showgrounds Shopping Centre in Clonmel Town.
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Baugur sells Booker stake as part of focus on retail
Icelandic investor Baugur has offloaded its 31.4 per cent stake in cash and carry business Booker as it concentrates on retail.
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Supermarkets enjoy healthy growth
The latest grocery market share figures show strong year-on-year sales growth in the grocery sector but food price inflation figures have been over-cooked, claimed TNS Worldpanel.
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B&Q and Morrisons are first retailers to be awarded Carbon Trust Standard
B&Q and Morrison’s are the two retailers among the first 12 companies to be awarded the new Carbon Trust Standard for tackling climate change.
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Sainsbury's non-food boss defects to Tesco
Sainsbury’s head of non-food Richard Jones is quitting the grocer to take a top job at competitor Tesco.
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Tesco under fire for planning application
Tesco is under fire after it was revealed that it used a local retailer to front a planning application for a development in Barnstaple, Devon.
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Russia’s X5 launches first Mercado Supercenter
Russia’s largest food retailer X5 has unveiled its first Mercado Supercenter store.
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Metro to axe raft of German Real stores to ramp up profit
German retail group Metro is to close or sell 27 of its underperforming Real hypermarkets in Germany by the end of next year to lift profitability.
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Tesco to roll out mobile till points in Express shops
Tesco is to introduce mobile checkouts to many of its Express formats after testing the devices at a handful of stores.
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Sainsbury’s: the city view
Sainsbury’s reported slowing sales growth in the past three months, but said performance was in line with expectations.
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Opinion
Price alone won’t save the day
Retailers must back up low prices with good quality if they want to attract today’s consumer
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Waitrose to sponsor Reading FC
Waitrose has signed up to sponsor Reading Football Club, marking the first time a food retailer in Britain has sponsored a major football club.
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Opinion
Advertising blast
When anyone – retailer or non-retailer – gets into a conversation about food shopping, they always point out that they have seen an increase in their bills.
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M&S gives out discount vouchers ahead of update
Marks & Spencer has given out almost 1 million discount vouchers ahead of its trading update next month.
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Another tough week for John Lewis
John Lewis reported another fall in sales as it comes up against tough comparatives.
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Hotel Chocolat to launch stores in the Gulf in overseas growth drive
Specialist luxury retailer Hotel Chocolat is to open stores overseas and bolster its board as it pursues growth.
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May online sales hit £4.5 billion
Online spending in May rose to more than 4.5 billion, an increase of 1.6 per cent on April, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.
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Sainsbury’s site crashes
Sainsbury’s has had to suspend its online grocery business because of a technical fault.
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Sainsbury's growth slows
Sales growth at grocer Sainsbury’s has slowed in the past three months as the “challenging economic environment continued throughout the quarter”, the company said.
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Wal-Mart targets Russia
Wal-Mart is considering opening in Russia and surrounding countries as it initiates a new round of international expansion.