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Q&A with David Beattie, store manager of the week
Your store provided the week's only full basket. How do you maintain strong availability? It's a constant daily exercise for us. We count the number of out of stocks every day with our tracker to ensure that every range we carry is on shelf...
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'I can't believe it's not cheaper'
Afry-up costs 13% more than it did a year ago, according to an article in the Daily Mirror last week. But the paper left out one ingredient synonymous with breakfast - and it's the one that would, certainly for some brands, have topped the list...
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Perfect Crunch crisps bring a taste of Egypt
Perfect Crunch, a new range of premium crisps, is entering the UK snack market this month aiming at adults. The crisps were a first for the UK, said company founder Mostafa El Baradei, because they were made from the Lady Rosetta potato...
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Innocent set for green and brown smoothies
Green and even brown-coloured smoothies could soon be making their debuts under the Innocent brand after more than six years of development work, The Grocer has learnt. A number of kiwi recipes, including one that does not contain bananas...
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Campaign trail: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Enterprises aims to strengthen its position in adult soft drinks with a new advert for its burgeoning Oasis brand. The ad, with the tagline 'For people who don't like water', is part of a £4m spend including TV and outdoor advertising...
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Chef to target retailers over 'five freedoms'
Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons could be next on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's hit list following his failed attempt to get Tesco to change its welfare standards for broiler standards.At last week's agm, Tesco shareholders...
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Oily fish proves a hit with young children
Sales of oily fish to families with young children have increased by 23% in the past year as parents cook more and look to feed their kids healthier options, new figures from industry body Seafish have indicated.The Nielsen research...
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Climbing the ladder
What was your first job? As a newspaper boy at 13. Getting up at 5am in the dark and freezing cold for £1 a day taught me the value of money and hard work.Give us a quick rundown on your career. I was a grocery buyer across all the key...
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Key Lekkerland comes to the end of the road
Buying group Key Lekkerland is to be wound down and its national accounts shared between Booker, Palmer & Harvey McLane and JW Filshill, as predicted by The Grocer in April. Speculation over the future of the group has raged ever since...
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Co-op Group turnover outstrips John Lewis
Co-operatively owned businesses generated £27.4bn for the UK economy last year, helped by the clout of The Co-operative Group. The sector made a combined pre-tax profit of £539m in 2007 and 10.8 million people - about a fifth of the UK...
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Supermarkets deny milking rising costs
Supermarkets have denied profiteering from a period of unprecedented food inflation despite passing on £200m more to consumers in price increases since 2005 than they inherited from suppliers. A new study, published exclusively in The...
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Duracell turns up the power
Duracell is launching its most powerful alkaline batteries to date as demand for high-drain battery-operated products such as digital cameras soars. Owner P&G has improved the power of both its Duracell Plus and Ultra brands, both of...
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Duty managers go in Sainsbury's shake-up
All duty managers at Sainsbury's supermarkets have been put on a 12-week redundancy plan and are having to reapply for their jobs as part of a radical overhaul of its management structure. The changes, which will result in some job...
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Employers watch out: Tesco has got the unions excited
Tesco's conflict with UFCW in the US is creeping across the Atlantic and the UK unions are rumblingTesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy is used to formidable opponents but US democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama must surely be...
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What ever happened to... St Ivel Gold?
Dairy Crest axed St Ivel Gold this year following declining sales as shoppers switched to butter spreads.
The dairy giant, which has brands including Utterly Butterly, Clover and Country Life, said it stopped manufacturing the range from… -
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Least favourite Revel to be evicted by voters
Coffee and orange flavour Revels face a battle for survival this summer as they go head to head in a Big Brother-style eviction. Mars UK is giving consumers the chance to vote out their least-favourite Revel to be replaced by a new,...
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Freedom Food farm lapses face scrutiny
The RSPCA has suspended a Somerset chicken farm from the Freedom Food scheme following a Five News investigation revealed it was not meeting the scheme's standards. The Five report claimed perches were not in use, chickens were not let...
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The food shock: learning to live with rising prices
As everyday commodity prices rocket, shoppers are finding ways to tick off their weekly shopping list ever more economically Shoppers need to reduce their household expenditure and are now looking closely at where savings can be made on...
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Functional & wellbeing
Unilever started its crusade to turn around the fortune of functional products at the beginning of this year when it pumped £15m into a marketing campaign for its Flora Pro-activ brand. The push was designed to tackle consumer confusion...
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Waitrose offers grapes of wrath
Bogoffer of the Week is the 'buy one, get an agonising drawn-out death free' promotion unofficially being run at the Northampton outpost of Waitrose.The Barron family was delighted last week to find one of nature's deadliest predators...