Archive of all Booths articles – Page 2
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NewsFormer 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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NewsBooths 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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Analysis & FeaturesHeroes, 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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NewsBooths 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 & FeaturesChristmas 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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NewsBooths 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 & OpinionTechnology 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 & OpinionBooths 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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NewsBooths 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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NewsBooths reports fall in profits as inflation bites
Executive chairman Edwin Booth had previously warned that performance could slow down
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NewsDriscoll’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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NewsBooths 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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NewsButlers 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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NewsM&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 & FeaturesWhy was beef fraud investigation not disclosed earlier?
“Who else has Loscoe supplied with falsely labelled beef” asks Chris Elliott
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NewsLoscoe Chilled Foods confirms it is part of beef fraud investigation
The supplier stressed the incident was isolated with ’no suggestion that any other customers are affected’
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NewsBooths was retailer that sold beef linked to fraud case
The northern supermarket chain has stressed it is not under investigation by the National Food Crime Unit
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NewsLove Cocoa scores multimillion-pound backing to open luxury chocolate stores
Love Cocoa has ambitious plans to take the fight to rival premium chocolatier Hotel Chocolat by opening 10 bricks-and-mortar outlets over the next three years
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Category ReportWhy ready meals have entered a new ice age: category report 2023
Frozen ready meals have become a hotbed of growth, competition and innovation. How will the category develop as costs ramp up?