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Grocer 33‘Nothing to improve’: Asda offers best shop on the Isle of Wight
Our shopper found the store spacious with ‘no sense of crowding’ and praised the staff who ‘were all friendly and smiling’ and often stopped what they were doing to assist
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Grocer 33Asda Isle of Wight manager on seeing off rivals ahead of Aldi's arrival
Keenan Knight tells The Grocer about swapping Morrisons for Asda his team’s sense of togetherness and the challenges thrown up by running a store on the Isle of Wight
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Grocer 33Asda is cheapest supermarket despite highest annual inflation
Asda offered the lowest price for two-thirds of the items on our shopping list
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Grocer 33‘Great leaders create more leaders’: Asda Southgate boss on winning affluent shoppers
Store manager Yamoah Kusi-Mensah on shouting about value to win over a wealthy catchment, fixing availability with ‘Ops Clock’ and his ambition to give Southgate an M&S-style feel
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Grocer 33Asda comes out top in north London supermarket battle
In this region of conspicuous affluence, it was Asda that picked up a rare win and completed a service and price double in our Green Week special
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Grocer 33Asda offers cheapest shop as inflation hits green goods hard
Our selection of organic, British, plant-based and other products with green credentials cost 5.6% more than a year ago
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Grocer 33Asda continues streak as cheapest supermarket and widens margin
Asda had the highest rate of inflation this week but still landed the win
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Grocer 33Sainsbury’s Brookwood’s deputy manager: our colleague base is our point of difference
Jonathan Sellen tells The Grocer how the store wins trade from its more upmarket competition, why innovation is Sainsbury’s hidden weapon and what’s changed most during his 22 years in retail
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Grocer 33‘Intuitive’ Sainsbury’s is best supermarket in Guildford & Woking
The giant 71,228 sq ft Sainsbury’s store was this week’s biggest and it managed the only perfect score for availability
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Grocer 33Tesco Lincoln takes narrow win in a high-scoring week
Tesco excelled in every area, but our shopper singled out ‘the nice, wide aisles’ that made the store ‘easy to navigate’
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Grocer 33Tesco Lincoln’s Chris Pettinger on keeping standards high with fierce competition
‘We’re always being compared to other offers, which is why we have to be outstanding all of the time. We’re very well armed to fight our corner’
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Grocer 33Asda’s narrow pricing win thanks to EDLP and price cuts
Asda led on price for seven items in our basket, matching a further seven
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Grocer 33‘Excellent’ standards earn Preston Waitrose the win
Our shopper was most impressed by the ‘availability and friendliness’ of the staff and the ‘well-presented’ food-to-go and specialist counters
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Grocer 33Waitrose’s Frank Young on winning spend in the home of Booths
‘Our range is definitely a draw and our USP is that we will always give fantastic service’
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Grocer 33Asda is cheapest supermarket for back to school shopping trip
Asda was cheapest for 15 of the items on our list, exclusively so for nine
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Grocer 33Morrisons offers cheapest basket for student staples
Last week Morrisons launched its Unbeatable Prices commitment on 500 staples and was unbeaten for 19 SKUs this week
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Grocer 33London Waitrose is best in ‘student special’ uni shop
Our shopper praised the ‘exquisite’ presentation at a Waitrose store that ‘feels grand and luxurious while still welcoming’
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Grocer 33Waitrose’s Luke Pryce on managing the ‘convenience store on steroids’
‘We are technically a full-line supermarket, but we have no car park so it’s pretty much all basket or small-trolley shop – walk in, walk out’
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Grocer 33Morrisons comes out on top in Lichfield and Tamworth supermarket battle
This week’s winner with 84 points was Morrisons, two miles to the south of Tamworth in the suburb of Wilnecote
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Grocer 33Nectar deals take Sainsbury’s to a narrow victory as cheapest supermarket
At £77.18, our Sainsbury’s basket cost 39p or 0.5% less than at Asda