All Booths articles
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News
Booths introduces milk vending machine to Keswick supermarket
Booths had introduced the technology following feedback from a customer who wanted to buy locally sourced milk in a glass bottle
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Florette launches Gourmet Slaw range
Three new products feature flavours from around the world with south and east Asian-inspired dressings
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Booths workers offered transfer to Asda after store closure
Booths said increases in operating costs meant it was no longer possible for Hale Barns to be ‘profitable under the Booths model’
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Booths joins Too Good To Go to help tackle food waste
Booths was rolling out the service after customers responded well to a short trial
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Former Booths CEO Chris Dee joins DukesHill as non-exec chair
Dee has also held roles at Harrods, alongside a portfolio career specialising in luxury food and drink
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Booths enjoys ‘record’ Christmas sales as customers buy more festive staples
Demand for a ‘very traditional British Christmas’ led customers to spend more, Booths said
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Long reads
Heroes, car crashes and epic fails in our unofficial review of 2023
It’s been another rollercoaster year in grocery. Here’s our review of the ups and downs that came to define 2023
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Booths takes frozen supply chain back inhouse as part of logistics overhaul
Booths is set to open a massive new frozen facility at its Preston manufacturing site
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Analysis and Features
Christmas dinner wars: this year’s deals unpacked
Retailers have been battling for the Christmas dinner table by putting their best deals forward for the festive feast, ranging from £14 to £220
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Booths targets modernisation with major IT and loyalty overhaul
The work would eventually enable Booths to digitise its Booths Card loyalty scheme, MD Nigel Murray said
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Comment and Opinion
Technology or tradition: have supermarket self-checkouts gone too far?
Booths’ decision is an unusual one, and goes against the trend of SSCs becoming more ubiquitous in stores of all sorts and sizes
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Comment and Opinion
Booths ripping out self-service tills is counter-cultural but comes at a cost
There’s no doubt that, as supermarkets have introduced more SSCOs, there has been growing disaffection
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News
Booths ditching self-service checkouts to boost customer experience
”We’re not great fans of self-checkouts,” Booths managing director Nigel Murray told The Grocer
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Booths reports fall in profits as inflation bites
Executive chairman Edwin Booth had previously warned that performance could slow down
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Driscoll’s expands rollout of paper berry packaging into Asda and Booths
The packaging solution had seen an ’overwhelmingly positive response’ from customers, helping significantly reduce plastic use, Driscoll’s said
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Booths launches café concept as hospitality becomes a focus
Café 1847 has opened at the grocer’s Hesketh Bank store in Lancashire
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Butlers secures new listings for Parlick sheep milk cheeses
The trio of soft and hard cheeses has secured listings at Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and Booths
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M&S sees online visibility increase thanks to TikTok boost
The increase in the retailer’s visibility metric sees it rank second only to Tesco, which saw its visibility increase by 6% in the past 12 months
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Analysis and Features
Why was beef fraud investigation not disclosed earlier?
“Who else has Loscoe supplied with falsely labelled beef” asks Chris Elliott