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Morrisons news and analysis – Page 146
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Channel Islands: Le Riche brings out Guernsey big gun
Channel Islands based food group Le Riche is stepping up its assault against Safeway with a new hypermarket in Guernsey under the Checkers fascia. At 52,000 sq ft, the store will dwarf other retailing outlets on the island. The opening is...
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Safeway plays safe with drugs
Safeway has teamed up with waste disposal experts Canon Hygiene in a Medicines Are Not Child's Playawareness campaign. Customers will be encouraged to return unused medicines to their local Safeway pharmacist, who in partnership with Cannon...
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Strawberries: Early UK berry bonanza
English strawberries grown under glass for the early market are becoming an increasingly important crop, and, judging by the investment, highly profitable, despite having to compete with imports. Humberside grower Nigel Walter, who counts Morrisons...
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Obituary: Sir Alistair Grant
Sir Alistair's legacy to grocery Clive Beddall The death of former Safeway chairman Sir Alistair Grant, at the relatively young age of 63, leaves the UK food and drink industry without one of its most charismatic visionaries. His death was not...
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Multiples: Somerfield axe falls on loyalty
Somerfield has axed its loyalty card scheme and joined Asda and Safeway in claiming such initiatives have lost credibility among shoppers. The troubled chain has been issuing Argos Premier Points since 1996. But chief executive Alan Smith has now...
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Safeway: After the deluge a model store layout
When floods devastated Safeway's store at Lewes, East Sussex, in October, the retailer turned it to its advantage by trialling its new supermarket concept in the refurbishment. Now the store has become the model for 50 other supermarkets in the...
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Company culture: Safeway
You lovely people! Safeway under Carlos Criado-Perez is going all out to make employees feel empowered and motivated. Helen Gregory reports Safeway staff talk about life BC, but it's not a religious reference, rather a term to describe life...
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Retail spotlight: Carlos' fun factory
Safeway St Katherine Docks Safeway's boss raises the curtain on retailtainment' where staff and customers are the players. John Wood reports UK grocery shopping seems to be a chore to be endured rather than an experience to be enjoyed,...
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Safeway: Criado-Perez turns up the warmth
A radical new store format and a new attitude to customers represent the next step of Safeway's recovery plan, chief executive Carlos Criado-Perez said this week. Both developments were in evidence at the company's newly refurbished flagship store...
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Retail spotlight: Living with the enemy
A private passion became a tool for survival when Morrisons opened up across the road from Sub Budwal's c-store. Anne Bruce tells his story Sub and Neelam Budwal, who own this year's Booker prize winning c-store, trade under the nose of one of...
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Multiples: Buoyant Safeway set for a futuristic new format
Half-year pretax profits up 10%; pricing to get sharper; merger not on cards Safeway is to open a raft of "futuristic" hypermarkets in a move which aims to exploit its growing customer base. The chain will convert two superstores into the new...
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The Grocer focus on bacon: storming the fixture
Tulip International is using brand loyal Scotland as a test bed for a £150,000 investment in category management. Working with Safeway's marketing and retailing agency Storm at the Gyle Avenue store in Edinburgh, the first Bacon Zone opened for...
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The Grocer Focus on pizza: Asda's back on top
Asda has regained the title of Pizza Retailer of the Year awarded by the Pizza & Pasta Association an accolade it has now won three times. "We lost to Morrisons last year but got it back this year," says Asda buying manager Linsey Wright. "In...
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Safeway: A Fresh approach to the store cafe
Safeway is preparing to launch a new supermarket café concept in its High Wycombe store. The concept known internally as Café Fresh' is still being developed but will be unveiled after Christmas. A spokeswoman said: "It will offer a lot more...
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CIES conference: Global retailer? No such thing'
Forget all the hype about global retailing. Only one operator is close to achieving that status, claims Safeway boss Carlos Criado-Perez. "Carrefour is probably the only one on its way to becoming a global retailer. The rest, with due respect, are...
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Floods: After that deluge praise for public spirited super
Supermarkets have been praised for their help for communities in East Sussex devastated by the recent floods. A Somerfield store in Uckfield and a Safeway store in Lewes will have to be completely refitted after they were flooded with sewage...
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Safeway: High:low is pushed on
Safeway is extending its aggressive high:low pricing programme to include non food lines. And it has also started the build up to Christmas by featuring seasonal products in its promotional leaflets. Seasonal confectionery brands currently on...
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Multiples: Morrisons' profits leap despite tighter margins
Morrisons has had to trim margins to maintain its level of growth, but still managed to push pretax profits before exceptional items up 9.1% to £86.4m. In the 27 weeks to August 6, turnover was £1,709m, up 15% on the same period last year. MD John...
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BEEF: Butter and butchery still closely linked trades
Milk price rise highlights dairy sector's role in meat industry Meat buyers dependent on home produced beef supplies may have a slightly more secure trading outlook following the latest round of milk price increases, led by Asda and Safeway....
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Scotland: Safeway adds to Asda woes
Safeway has unveiled a Scottish logo and brand identity as part of its campaign to position itself as Scotland's number one food retailer. The supermarket chain says its market share in Scotland is 22%, making it the market leader in that...