All Grocery articles – Page 693
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Asda to source extra £30m from African farmers
Asda chief executive Andy Bond will today pledge to source an additional 30 million of fresh produce from African farmers over the next five years.
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Making your mark is no picnic
Today’s retail brands will influence how future generations decide what to buy and what to think
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Opinion
Solving problems that don’t exist
It’s a funny old world. The first page of the Competition Commission’s report into grocery retailing says that the UK grocery industry is competitive and delivers “good outcomes for consumers”. The 269-page document goes on to outline how this state of affairs should be fixed.
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Opinion
Inquiry has failed to land punches on grocers
Competition Commission chairman Peter Freeman was asked this week whether he felt deflated by his final grocery inquiry report that found precious little wrong with the £130 billion grocery sector.
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Waitrose to open smaller format stores
Waitrose is to launch a major assault on the convenience market and could open at least 100 smaller format stores.
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John Lewis sales robust, as Waitrose shines
Department store chain John Lewis posted a solid set of figures for the week to April 26 and stablemate supermarket chain Waitrose delivered a strong performance.
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Waitrose chief says food prices will fall
Waitrose managing director Mark Price believes that the rise in food prices will be halted by the autumn.
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NewsRose to offload stake in Lane Fox business
Sir Stuart Rose will attempt to diffuse the latest Marks Spencer boardroom fallout by selling his stake in Martha Lane Fox’s karaoke business Lucky Voice.
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Opinion
Creating an environment we can be proud of
This store has been open for nearly 10 months and every annual event brings with it a chance to learn about the trading environment and our colleagues.
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Will planning test happen?
Grocery inquiry: industry exonerated, but angry at proposed competition test and ombudsman
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Carrefour hit by more China protests
Carrefour has been hit by further angry protests in China, as anti-French sentiment grows in the country.
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Majestic extends EPoS to France
Majestic Wine has extended its use of Itim’s EPoS system to its French stores.
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Morrisons to up time-keeping with new IT kit
Morrisons is to upgrade its workforce management system with swipe card data capture terminals.
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Bank launches attack on OFT
Investment bank Cazenove has hit out at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) after the governing body launched a series of allegations into a wide range of price-fixing.
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Grocery inquiry targets planning and code changes
The Competition Commission has said in its final grocery report that the UK’s biggest supermarkets should be subject to a competition test on planning applications and give up restrictive covenants that stop rival building stores close to their sites.
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Grocery bucks consumer spending slowdown
The latest TNS Worldpanel grocery market share figures published today, for the 12 weeks to April 20, showed that the grocery sector achieved 6 per cent sales growth year on year.
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Tesco introduces carbon footprint label
Tesco has launched a carbon footprint label on 20 of its own-brand products to inform consumers about the environmental impact of products.
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Price-fixing probe hits 100 brands
Some of the UK’s best-known consumer brands face a probe over allegations into price-fixing, as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) steps up its wide-ranging investigation into the grocery sector.
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OFT launches fresh probe into supermarket price fixing
The UK’s four biggest grocers are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for allegedly fixing prices of health, beauty and grocery products.
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Opinion
Sainsbury's needs to step up non-food online
Sainsbury’s will launch a new home brand in two stores this weekend as part of its drive to ramp up its non-food offer, as revealed in today’s Retail Week.