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Asda: consumers will be richer next year, but won't splash out
Asda has predicted disposable income will actually rise in 2009, on the back of forecasts by the Centre for Economics and Business Research predicting inflation will fall below zero in the summer. Asda’s income tracker has forecast that...
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Landmark boss attacks Brown over the ban on tobacco display
Landmark Wholesale MD Martin Williams has taken his objections to the Government's tobacco display ban right to the top by penning an outspoken letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.The letter, seen by The Grocer, calls on Brown to...
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Sainsbury's cracks availability
Sainsbury's has overcome its traditional Achilles' heel, boosting its availability from 96.3% to 98.2% and leaping from last place, in The Grocer 33 half-year review last year, to first."This is great news," said Sainsbury's director of...
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Retailers try to avoid empty shelves by helping suppliers
As the financial crisis pushes suppliers to the brink, supermarkets have started to give them more support. But will it last, asks James Ball
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Sun Ripened Sweet Chilli joins SunBites
Walkers has added a Sun Ripened Sweet Chilli flavour to its healthy SunBites range to tap into growing consumer enthusiasm for healthy crisps.The company said the new flavour, out shortly, scored higher than other flavours in consumer trials...
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PayPoint hit by fresh complaint over exclusivity
PayPoint has found itself in the firing line for the second time in as many months as another terminal provider complains to the OFT about its exclusivity agreements. Retail Gateway, whose parent company is Helperton, has written to the...
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Wrigley's gives mints some Extra youth cool
Wrigley is attempting to get rid of mints’ “old fogey” reputation and inject a bit of youthful pizazz with a launch under its youth-oriented Extra brand. The confectionery company is ditching its current boxed Extra Mint offer and introducing a more...
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Co-op talks to OFT over Lothian deal
The OFT launched a consultation this week into whether The Co-operative Group's merger with Lothian Borders & Angus Co-op would reduce competition - in a move that could force the society to sell off yet more stores. The OFT said it would...
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UK drinks industry hit by first wave of job cuts
The drinks industry was reeling this week after three of its biggest hitters announced 100 job losses and a further 49 potential losses as a result of the economic downturn. Constellation Brands has cut 50 jobs across its UK operations,...
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Minister tells mults to explain Irish price gap
An Irish Government minister has bluntly told the Republic's multiples they have "a duty to explain" why their prices are so much higher than those in Northern Ireland and the UK, when sterling is falling in value against the euro. Mary...
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Has the innocent halo fallen off?
Innocent Drinks was the biggest food and drink casualty in the Top Products Survey 2008, with sales falling from £134m to £107m, a 20.2% drop. The market-leading smoothie brand, which has seen meteoric growth since its launch in 1998, has...
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Hopson joins Pets at Home
Former Asda retail director Sally Hopson has joined Pets at Home as customer and people director. Hopson left Asda two months ago after 14 years with the retailer in senior roles including marketing operations director. Asda said it...
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Third Party: How vulnerable are you to theft by staff?
Low morale and an influx of temporary workers could lead to a Christmas crime bonanza, says Khuram Kirmani
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Lidl - it's not just a shop, it's a way of life
Aha! Now you can live out your Alan Partridge fantasies while shopping for £5 lobsters thanks to a unique tie-up between Lidl and budget hotel chain Travelodge. Consumers can shop 'til they drop even further down the dignity league by...
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Kerry ramps up sale-or- return lines
Kerry Foods Direct to Store is helping c-store retailers through the recession by increasing the number of sale-or-return lines.The chilled distribution service already offers sale-or-return on three sausage, four sliced meat, 15 sandwich...
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Queensbury rejects Tesco store proposal
Leading wholesaler Steve Parfett has claimed a victory for people power after Tesco was refused planning permission for a store in Queensbury, Bradford. The Parfett's Cash & Carry MD campaigned with local shop owners in the area who were...
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Waitrose opts for targeted cuts over VAT price move
Waitrose has not passed on last month’s VAT cut to customers but said it has instead invested the savings in price cuts across a smaller number of items.
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NewsFood Standards Agency reassures public on dioxin in Irish beef
Irish beef is the subject of a new health scare after the Food Standards Agency warned that meat contaminated with dioxins had reached shop shelves in the UK.
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Consumer body casts doubt on diet brand claims
Which? has sparked a new row over food labelling after research by the consumer body showed some products marketed as low-fat or reduced-calorie options were often no healthier than standard ranges.
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Scientists warn of ‘second wave’ of mad cow deaths
Hundreds of people could die from a ‘second wave’ of deaths related to the human variant of mad cow disease, according to scientists.