All Grocery articles – Page 703
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Sainsbury’s plans to step up its at-source security tagging
Sainsbury’s is hoping to extend its source-tagging programme after completing the roll-out of security technology to all its supermarkets.
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Tesco to expand its use of electronic shelf-edge labels
Tesco is to extend its use of electronic shelf-edge labelling (ESL) using a system from Swedish vendor Pricer.
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Asda to invest £400m in expansion
Asda will open about 20 stores over the next year and push its online operation as part of a 400 million expansion programme.
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Thorntons profits and sales jump 14%
Thorntons has delivered a 14 per cent increase in pre-tax profits and total sales for the 28 weeks to January 12.
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Tesco defends its £2 chickens
Tesco has defended its decision to sell whole chickens for less than 2, vowing that it is the grocer itself that shoulders the price cut.
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Asda like-for-likes climb
The UK’s second largest grocer Asda delivered mid-single-digit like-for-like sales growth in 2007.
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Tesco to ramp up sales of local products
Tesco plans to sell 400 million of local products in UK stores this year.
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Morrisons calls for new OFT team over price-fixing dispute
Morrisons is demanding that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) replace its team that is investigating the alleged milk price fixing in the grocery sector.
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Supermarkets accused of bullying suppliers
The European Parliament declared yesterday that big European supermarket chains may be abusing their market position to drive down prices paid to suppliers.
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Government should get a grip on responsible message
The Government will not be able to its achieve targets on climate change, health and fair trade without tackling its often confusing relationships with supermarkets, according to a report by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC).
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Tesco cuts wine bottles' weight in eco drive
By Katie Daubney Supermarket group Tesco is to reduce the weight of wine bottles to cut their environmental impact. By 2010 the grocer aims to save 72,000 tonnes of glass by cut the weight of bottles by 25 per cent. Tesco category technical manager for beers wines and spirits Andy ...
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Wal-Mart backs Sony in DVD battle
Wal-Mart has said it will no longer stock Toshiba’s HD-DVD discs and players in favour of Sony-backed rival Blu-ray.
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Tesco targets £1bn of local produce sales
Grocery market leader Tesco will today unveil a sales target of 1 billion of locally produced food by 2011.
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Competition Commission botches remedies publication
The Competition Commission (CC) made a fiasco of publishing its crucial remedies report.
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Competition Commission wants more stores, but calls for ombudsman
The Competition Commission this evening gave supermarkets the green light to build more stores, but recommended the appointment of an ombudsman to provide suppliers with greater protection.
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Opinion
Has Whole Foods Market turned a corner in the UK?
Whole Foods Market opened in London’s trendy High Street Kensington to a fanfare last June.
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OFT accused of 'sensationalist' publicity seeking over milk inquiry
A High Court Judge has slammed the Office of Fair Trading for engaging in “public relations exercises” and accused the regulator of trying to attract “sensationalist publicity” over its inquiry into alleged price-fixing, according to the Daily Telegraph today.
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John Lewis delivers strong sales
Department store John Lewis has returned to form in the week to February 9, posting a 5.8 per cent increase in sales to 45.1 million.
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Competition Commission to deliver remedies report today
Competition Commission (CC) will publish its hotly anticipated remedies report for its inquiry into the 120 billion grocery sector this afternoon after 4.30pm.
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Morrisons unveils its £110m IT makeover
Morrisons has signed a deal with Oracle for what is set to be the biggest retail IT transformation project agreed this year.