All Product prices articles – Page 160
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Stop this nonsense: cut the tax on healthy fruit drinks
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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Irish food price surveys spark fresh rip-off row
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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Price Survey
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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Old El Paso fires up the branded activity chart
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
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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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
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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Brands spread butter offers across retailers
This week's Promotrack focuses on the butters/spreads and cheese sub-categories in line with the Focus on Butters & Spreads. Of the featured space promotional activity recorded over the past 12 weeks, promotions were captured...
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When service is really hot!
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...
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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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Asda's decision to join Tesco and Waitrose in raising the price of its own label milk has had little impact on its position as the UK's cheapest supermarket, according to The Grocer 33's latest survey. Both Asda and Morrisons have...
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Sainsbury is a Welsh sizzler!
Sainsbury's Newport store in Wales topped the customer service and availability charts this week to claim the Top Store Award. Our mystery shopper was impressed from the moment that she entered the store. She said that a lot of effort had...
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Sainsbury shows how to do it
Superbly attentive customer service, an absence of packing trolleys, impeccable merchandising and barely a wait at the checkout came together to deliver a class act at Sainsbury Whitley Bay In today&'s tough retail climate,...
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How to really pack a punch
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was another close call. Asda and Tesco both provided our shoppers with brimming baskets so customer service became the deciding factor. Asda won as our shopper at Asda Gateshead was offered help...
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On queue for great service!
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was a close call between Sainsbury's Kimberley store in Nottingham, and Tesco's Loundwater store in Buckinghamshire. As both stores provided full baskets and flawless customer service,...
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In 1997 Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister, the world learned that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest running prime time TV series and The Grocer 33 was born....
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In 1997 Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister, the world learned that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest running prime time TV series and The Grocer 33 was...
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The Grocer 33: 2006 End of year annual review
Asda has been crowned the cheapest supermarket for the ninth year in a row. The retailer has once again dominated the pricing tables for the past 12 months and claimed The Grocer 33's lowest priced shopping basket for 30 of the past 50...
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Iceberg lettuce prices have plummeted at Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Waitrose and Somerfield this week but the order of our top six supermarkets has remained unchanged. Asda is still The Grocer 33&'s cheapest supermarket for...
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As World Cup fever kicks in and the supermarkets blow the starter whistle on a summer of deep cut promotional activity, the first week of our revised 33-item list shows that pricing strategies at our four cheapest supermarkets are...