All Grocery articles – Page 697
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News
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.
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News
Asda sells mobile handsets for a fiver
Asda is battling for its share of the lucrative mobile phone market with its launch of a pay-as-you-go mobile handset for just 5 today.
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John Lewis sales power ahead
John Lewis department stores registered a 7 per cent sales rise for the week, despite the unhelpful cold weather.
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News
Supermarkets face cigarette price-fixing inquiry
Retailers, including the big four supermarkets, are facing allegations of price-fixing on cigarettes from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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Sainsbury’s ups non-food with homewares assault
Supermarket chain targets slice of Tesco and Asda’s non-food share with new Tu brand
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Real boss to unveil revival strategy for flagging chain
The new boss of Metro Group’s Real hypermarket chain was expected to reveal his blueprint for the revival of the hypermarket chain to suppliers this week.
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M&S to make prices in India on par with UK
Marks & Spencer is to bring prices at its Indian stores in line with those in the UK, in an effort to seize share in one of the world’s biggest emerging markets.
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Opinion
Food inflation is here to stay
It takes something for Primark to play second fiddle in the news after parent company ABF’s results, particularly considering the value fashion giant seems to be doing a remarkable job of weathering the fashion downturn.
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News
Tesco to offer in-store body shape advice
Female shoppers at selected Tesco Extra stores are to be offered free advice from an expert panel, aimed at combatting low self-esteem when buying clothes.
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Shoppers’ food bills climb £800 a year
Family food bills have surged by almost 800 a year, as food inflation forces up supermarket prices.
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OFT apologises to Morrisons over milk price-fixing claims
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has apologised to Morrisons and agreed to pay 100,000 in damages, after the grocer was wrongly accused in a price-fixing inquiry.
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Thorntons celebrates sales rise
Upmarket confectioner Thorntons has bucked the tough trading trend to deliver its sixth consecutive quarter of growth.
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Co-op slams Soil Association labelling system
The Co-operative Group has clashed with the Soil Association over the importance placed on the distance food has travelled by air in a new labelling system.
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GalleryMarks & Spencer – Bournemouth
This is the first fully fledged example of the eco-store format that M&S hopes will help it achieve its Plan A objectives by 2012.
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GallerySainsbury's Sydenham
This refurbished store was a former SavaCentre and at 90,000 sq ft, is now the largest outlet in the grocer’s portfolio.
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M&S agrees India deal
Marks & Spencer this afternoon confirmed plans to open at least 50 stores in India over the next five years through a joint venture with Reliance Retail
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Opinion
Co-op is right to bid for Somerfield
The Co-operative Group confirmed the grocery sector’s worst-kept secret this week, when it said it was in talks to acquire 900-store local grocery chain Somerfield.
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News
French threaten LVMH boycott in China row
LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault threw his support behind Beijing as concerns grow in France over Chinese calls for a boycott of French goods.
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John Lewis sales ‘defiant’
John Lewis has reported a “defiant” week of trading, but remains cautious as it braces itself to come up against tough comparatives from last year.