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Asda Gibson Way, Gateshead 0 The Asda on Gibson Way in Gateshead was large and easy to shop in. However, our mystery shopper was not able to find all the items on his shopping list. The store did not stock the 16-pack of Twix...
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Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket for the third week in a row. In a tight race, Asda's basket price of £46.42 came in barely cheaper than Somerfield's total of £46.86. Tesco was third at £47.24, or 1.8% more than Asda, followed by Morrisons,...
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Who we visited Smile, Old Market Street, Bristol Spar, Warwick Road, Solihull, West Midlands premier, Broadfield Barton, Crawley, West Sussex tesco EXpress, High Street, Woodville, Derbyshire tesco metro, New...
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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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Who we visited BudgeNs, Sycamore Road, Amersham, Bucks Esso on the run, A3, Coombe Lane, Surrey sainsbury's at jacksons, Bawtry Road, Rotherham, Yorkshire Spar, Manor Road, Hinchley Wood, Surrey tesco EXpress,...
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Manufacturers slam alcohol pricing wars
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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Price pressure boiling
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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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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Dolmio, Napolina do an Italian job in top 5 chart
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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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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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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Asda Sheffield: a class act
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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Britvic's keeping up the promotional pace
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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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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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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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...