All Product prices articles – Page 153

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket again this week at £38.26, while Tesco was once again in second place, this week with a basket price of £39.31, 2.7% higher than Asda. Sainsbury was third at £39.80, nudging Morrisons back to fourth place at...

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    trends

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Grocery prices down Grocery prices remain 0.8% higher than they were this time last year, despite falling a further 0.4% in the period between the beginning of July and August. This latest modest price decrease follows on from the...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Asda has regained the top spot this week, after temporarily losing its title to Morrisons. Asda had a basket price of £35.47, or £0.50 cheaper than Tesco, which came in second. Much of Asda's lead was due to a price drop on...

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    Price pressure boiling

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Retailers are ­facing a growing struggle to keep a lid on inflation - and the future holds little prospect of a lessening in the upward pressure on grocery prices, analysts warned this week. The latest data from The Grocer 100 pricing...

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    Manufacturers slam alcohol pricing wars

    2006-08-19T00:00:00Z

    This week the drinks industry came under fire again for stripping value from the drinks market. Jean-Manuel Spriet, chief executive of Pernod Ricard UK, reportedly accused rival wine producers of promoting misleading 'half-price' discount...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited Co-OP Market Street, Ashby De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire CostCutter Lodway, Pill, Bristol Keystore Lammermoor Road, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow MACE St Leonards Road, Horsham, West Sussex tesco express...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons has overtaken Asda to become the cheapest supermarket this week. Morrisons' basket came in at £45.53, just pipping perennial price leader Asda and Sainsbury's, which has been cutting prices to regain market share. The spread on the...

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    Non food

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    It has been a year since we first launched The Grocer 33's Non Food Report. Twelve months on, and the results of our fifth quarterly survey of non food price points are virtually identical to those we published in August 2005. Asda is...

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    Dolmio, Napolina do an Italian job in top 5 chart

    2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Italian ingredients brands Dolmio and Napolina have both moved into the top five grocery chart this week with Dolmio having offers across three of the five retailers, favouring the 'x for y' mechanic in Asda and Sainsbury's and...

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    Price Survey

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Geoff Igharo Asda remains the price leader this week, but Tesco has drawn much closer than it did last week, when it dropped to a suprising fourth place on our pricing table. Tesco's basket came in at £40.81 this week, just 66p...

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    Irish food price surveys spark fresh rip-off row

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The row over the price of food in the Republic of Ireland is raging on, with consumers in the country being told that because of the high price of groceries at home, it would be cheaper for them to fly to Italy to do their weekly...

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    Stop this nonsense: cut the tax on healthy fruit drinks

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The government has made great strides in educating the population about the need to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day. According to the Department of Health, 67% of adults are now aware of this need. Yet, two thirds of the population are...

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    Britvic's keeping up the promotional pace

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The soft drinks category was last looked at in detail by the Promotrack analysis in the 17 June issue of The Grocer when we looked at the correlation between sponsorship of the World Cup and in-store promotional activity by its...

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    Asda Sheffield: a class act

    2006-08-05T00:00:00Z

    When our mystery shopper visited Asda's Handsworth Road store in Sheffield, the store was clean, well-merchandised, the staff friendly and she had her shopping packed without asking. She said that she had a "thoroughly enjoyable experience" at...

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    Price Survey

    2006-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Gaelle Walker  The gap between Asda and Tesco's total basket prices has remained achingly wide this week. At £46.50 the cost of our 33 items at Tesco came to a whopping £3.17 more expensive than at Asda, a fact which is keeping...

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    Old El Paso fires up the branded activity chart

    2006-07-29T00:00:00Z

    While no longer reported as a individual chart within the Promotrack feature, Assosia continues to monitor the overall top ten branded activity across all categories on a weekly basis and it is worth mentioning this week that three brands have...

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    Price Survey

    2006-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Gaelle WalkerPricing strategies at Tesco seemed to run awry this week. As the mercury hit the 90s, so Tesco's total basket price soared to £47.14, plunging the retailer, which is usually ranked as the UK's second cheapest supermarket...

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    Nothing they can do? A total eclipse of the charts

    2006-07-15T00:00:00Z

    This issue we have focused on some of the categories and brands/products that do not make it into the top five charts published, either because they do not have the same budgetary purse strings as the big brands, or the categories they are in do...

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    Price Survey

    2006-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Shopping basket totals leapt up a few more pence this week as a result of an across-the-board hike in the per kg price of loose bananas from 64p at the top four to 85p.  Waitrose increased its price by 10p to 89p while 99p is the cost for...

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    When service is really hot!

    2006-07-08T00:00:00Z

    When our mystery shopper had a little trouble reaching a product in the bakery section of Sainsbury's Drumchapel store, the baker in his whites was quick to jump from his oven and to our shopper's aid without him even having to ask. This...