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Grocer 33: Service at Asda proves a winner
Helpful staff and an efficient checkout service helped Asda in Parkhead clinch the award for best overall service this week despite it not having the best availability.
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NewsInnocent’s £5 café pops up in London
Innocent is opening a pop-up restaurant in East London in bid to help 5,000 people get their 5-a-day. The 5 for 5 Café will open at the Tramshed in Shoreditch for seven days from 1 October. Diners will get a two-course meal for £5 and be...
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NewsNew Swedish cider eyes £50m UK sales
Swedish cider Rekorderlig has set its sights on total brand sales of more than £50m within the next five years, after launching in the UK last July. Kieron Barton, MD of Rekorderlig's import agency Chilli Marketing, said he was confident...
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Abseil-utely fabulous
CSR sometimes occupies a strange nether-realm between hippy-drippy hug-a-dolphin stuff and cold-blooded PR.Tesco's head of being nice and not ruining the environment, Josh Hardie, was living the CSR dream for real last week by plunging...
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NewsAcid Test: Heinz Salad Cream with Lemon & Black Pepper
"At first taste it was really strong compared with the healthier-for-you light salad cream I usually have. It also tasted very peppery, which I don't really like."
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NewsGoing against the grain: Hale & Hearty's Christian Konig
Free-from food’s never been the sexiest of categories. But, according to Christian Konig, allergen-free needn’t mean flavour-free. The Hale & Hearty brand owner meets Sue Scott
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NewsWine aisle revamp cuts Sainsbury's volume sold on deal
Sainsbury's has slashed the amount of wine it sells on promotion and boosted sales following a major wine aisle revamp, The Grocer can reveal.
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NewsDiageo alcohol tax hike plan under fire
Diageo's proposal to raise the tax on beer, cider and wine to match excise duty for spirits has been attacked by rivals as a "very cynical and self-serving" move. In a submission to HM Treasury's review of alcohol taxation and pricing,...
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Focus On Spirits: Less alcohol, more sales
Take three consumer trends: a growing interest in spirits; a desire to consume less alcohol; and a squeeze on spending.
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NewsVodka sales down amid interest in rum and gin
The British love of vodka looks more shaken than stirred in new data that shows the tipple has dramatically fallen out of favour with drinkers. Volume sales have slumped 5% [Kantar Worldpanel 52w/e 13 June], pulled down by a struggling...
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Retail Prices: Tesco responds with cut as Asda sticks to booze pledge
The picture may be mixed, and confused by differing strategies on alcohol, but overall the big four are keeping the lid on inflation, says Ronan Hegarty
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Cumbrian Seafoods is back in the black
Seafood processor and supplier Cumbrian Seafoods has turned a £5.7m loss into a £2.3m profit after taxation over the past year after intensifying its focus on its core domestic business. The company, which supplies chilled seafood to...
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NewsBack to the farm: Jamie Mitchell of Daylesford Organic
Fine food retailer and manufacturer Daylesford Organic is returning to its roots – on the farm – under a new plan outlined by new CEO Jamie Mitchell. Adam Leyland reports
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NewsRival to Simply Bake raises cold war stakes
Findus has raised the stakes in the freezer aisle with a range that rivals and it believes betters Birds Eye's Simply Bake To Perfection. The Fresher Taste ready meals, which will hit shelves next week, are similar to the high-flying...
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NewsSo you want me to beat you?
Industry asking for regulation? It doesn’t happen often. But with supply and the environment at stake, a request for firm guidance is fair, says Sue Scott
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NewsLiquid Persil and Surf get big pack formats
Unilever is hoping to grow the concentrated liquid category in laundry with new bulk packs of its key brands and a £12m supporting campaign. It is introducing "big pack" versions of Persil Small and Mighty and Surf Small and Mighty this...
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Tesco to extend F&F brand into range of homeware products
The first details have emerged of Tesco's plans to extend its F&F fashion brand into homeware.The retailer has drawn up new logos for the range, which will have a good, better, best hierarchy under F&F Home Basics, F&F Home...
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NewsTabasco range turns up heat in branded chilled pizza sector
Tabasco has unveiled its new chilled pizza line-up, its first range of branded products outside the hot sauce category. The three-strong Tabasco Spicy Pizza range is in Tesco now with an rsp of £3.99 the same price as the Pizza...
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Carling is proudly brewed in Burton
Sir, I was bitterly disappointed to read the flippant remark from Martin Swaine, MD of Rhythm & Booze, about the UK's number one selling lager: "Who the hell knows where Carling is brewed anyway?".
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Britvic pulls the plug on Pepsi Raw
Britvic is pulling its all-natural cola brand Pepsi Raw from shelves following poor sales, as predicted by The Grocer in July.Although Pepsi Raw had proved successful in the on-trade, it recorded sales of just £704,000 over the past year...