All The Grocer articles in 12 November 2011
Previous issues.
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NewsThe Grocer Own Label Food & Drink Awards
The own-label ‘Oscars’ celebrate and reward the very best in retailers’ own-label products.
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Grocer 33Sainsbury’s Denton, Manchester
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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Analysis and FeaturesCheap at twice the price
The packaging is awful. They look and taste terrible. They’re so unloved by the multiples that they hide them away on the bottom shelf where they sell for mere pennies.
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Grocer 33
The Grocer 33: Service and Availability
The content on this page is restricted to those with The Grocer Gold Membership. It details the items that make up our Mystery Shop Score for each of the five leading supermarkets in this week’s Grocer 33 mystery shopping survey. It tracks, amongst other things, time spent queuing, scanning and paying, number of items that were out of stock or not stocked, scores for the standard of the store, shop floor service, etc.
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The Grocer 33: Prices
The content on this page is restricted to those with The Grocer Gold Membership. It details the prices for each of the items in each of the five leading supermarkets in this week’s Grocer 33 mystery shopping survey, as well as basic price and promotion analysis and also has links to further pages displaying price and promotion history by retailer and other web analytics.
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NewsBoots goes global with Coke-branded cosmetics
Coca-Cola branded cosmetics feature in a new collection of international beauty products launched at Boots.
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NewsAsda launches first transactional app
Asda is launching its first transactional mobile phone app, allowing customers to buy groceries online and price check the cost of their shopping using their iPhones.
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NewsLevi Roots: ‘I lied about Reggae Reggae recipe’
Levi Roots has confessed that he lied on Dragons’ Den when he said the recipe for Reggae Reggae sauce was handed down by his grandmother.
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NewsNew ad rap for Tesco over Double the Difference
Tesco has been rapped by the advertising watchdog after ads for its ill-fated Double the Difference price-checking campaign were branded “misleading” and “contradictory”.
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NewsGlanbia warns of global dairy slowdown
Glanbia has issued a robust assessment of trading for the year to date, but warned of weakening demand globally for dairy products.
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NewsAsda posts improvement in third quarter
Asda’s sales growth picked up pace slightly over the past three months, up 1.3% year-on-year. The figures, covering the period from 1 July to 30 September, mark an improvement on the 0.5% rise in like-for-like sales in the second quarter. The performance was described as “solid” by the supermarket’s US parent, Walmart.
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NewsBibby seizes full control of Costcutter
Transport and logistics giant Bibby Line Group has taken full control of Costcutter. Bibby bought a 51% stake in the c-store chain in 2007 and revealed in September that is was close to finalising a deal for the remaining stake.
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NewsCadbury bests Nestlé as battle for colour purple rolls on
Cadbury has struck a blow against Nestlé in a long-running legal dispute over Cadbury’s famous purple branding.
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NewsBritish American Tobacco tops new EA energy efficiency table
British American Tobacco has been named the UK’s greenest company in the grocery industry for its work on reducing energy consumption.
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NewsBotulism alert over Loyd Grossman korma sauce
The Food Standards Agency has warned consumers not to eat from a batch of Loyd Grossman korma sauce following an outbreak of botulism.