Prices & promotions news and analysis – Page 12
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Birds Eye partners with Asda to launch £20k ‘Pay Your Bills’ campaign
The campaign will run until 14 June and highlight the benefits of frozen food as a healthy and more affordable option than fresh without compromising on quality
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Analysis and Features
Will the HFSS laws – and obesity strategy – survive the new delay?
Industry got its wish this week as parts of the HFSS legislation were pushed back for a year. So where does it leave the obesity strategy?
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HFSS promotions ban in chaos after fresh reports of government u-turn
The ban was due to come into force in October, which would likely see it coincide with an expected huge rise in fuel costs
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Tesco chairman calls for windfall tax on energy firms to help cost of living crisis
Allan told the BBC Today programme Tesco customers were among those whose behaviour was showing the extent of the financial hardship
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Farmgate milk prices soar – but ‘still not enough’ to offset costs
A growing number of dairy farmers are warning price increases are failing to keep up with soaring input costs
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NPA calls out Tesco over lack of support for pig producers
The trade body has written an open letter to Tesco CEO Ken Murphy in a bid to attract financial support for hard-up producers
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Asda targets Home Bargains with new price match campaign
The Home Bargain Price Match includes more than 100 products, most of them non-food, including branded items such as Sure deodoran
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Are Asda and Morrisons’ price cuts enough to win back shoppers?
Asda and Morrisons have both announced major pricing offensives. But will it be enough to win shoppers – and how are they funding it?
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Sainsbury’s focusing on value as customers ‘watch every penny’ amid rampant inflation
Sainsbury’s warned profitability would fall back this coming year amid rising food and fuel costs and growing inflation
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Rapid grocer Jiffy price-matching Tesco.com on 150 products
Price-matched items will be branded and sit across all categories. Matching will be done weekly
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Defra to lift mandatory housing measures for poultry as bird flu threat decreases
However, producers have warned they remain in a ‘bleak’ position due to low returns and soaring costs
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Waitrose pushes value Essential range with major Piccadilly Circus campaign
The campaign is running from 25 April to 1 May and is expected to reach an audience of over a million people over the course of the week
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Price wars as new owners of Asda and Morrisons throw millions at cuts
Asda also announced 120,000 hourly paid shop floor colleagues would see their pay increase to £10.10 per hour from July
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Fears over food and CO2 shortages as fertiliser plant sees demand crash
Gas prices have gone up even further since the conflict began, leading to fertiliser costs quadrupling
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HFSS promotions clampdown won’t stop most shoppers buying them, data shows
Almost a third of c-store shoppers said they didn’t feel the restrictions would help fight unhealthy eating
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Iceland slashes online price of fresh and frozen veg to 1p for Easter
All frozen and fresh veg that would normally cost £1 or under, such as a kilo of onions, will instead be 1p from 11 April until midnight on 14 April
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M&S Food invests in Remarksable value range amid soaring living costs
The retailer first launched Remarksable 2019, and ‘now is the right time to go further’, says COO and Food MD Stuart Machin
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Food charity slammed for highlighting meat promotions
Eating Better has claimed supermarkets are ‘bombarding’ shoppers with cheap meat
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Egg producers say ‘tidal wave’ of cost hikes could leave supermarket shelves empty
Hundreds of producers face bankruptcy as the Ukraine war pushes feed prices through the roof
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Arla boss calls for greater financial support for dairy farmers
Struggling dairy farmers need retailers to put “an arm around them” says Ash Amirahmadi, or they could look to sell their products elsewhere