All articles by Ronan Hegarty – Page 49
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Analysis & Features
The big 30 wholesalers: can traditional players survive?
The upheaval in wholesale and franchise spearheaded by Tesco-Booker means a more abrasive trading landscape than ever
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News
Asda takes first service and availability win of 2018
Asda has been hammering its main supermarket rivals on price in the past months
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Grocer 33
Cheap own-label products see Asda to yet another pricing win
Asda has had little trouble in terms of seeing off its traditional supermarket rivals
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Grocer 33
Lidl sees off Asda challenge with 15% cheaper shop
The guest retailer emphatically halted Asda’s four-week winning streak
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News
Asda CEO promises more 'everyday low prices' in new strategy
Roger Burnley told suppliers the retailer was still “too expensive”, despite its recent Rollbacks
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News
Sandpiper CI signs up to Morrisons wholesale deal
Sandpiper will convert 24 stores to the Morrisons Daily fascia…
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Comment & Opinion
Scrapping Pick Your Own Offers could backfire on Waitrose
Some customers may well pick their own offers… at an alternative to Waitrose…
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News
Personalised vouchers set to fill Waitrose PYYO gap
Waitrose has insisted that its customers will still benefit after it decided to pull the plug on its Pick Your Own offers
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Grocer 33
Olive oil and E45 lotion help Asda to take another win
The Walmart-owned retailer’s £59.89 total was £2.60 cheaper than second-placed Morrisons..
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Comment & Opinion
Has Poundland’s elf had the last laugh in the face of ASA slapdown?
The campaign featured the character in a series of sexually suggestive posts on Twitter and Facebook
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Comment & Opinion
Job cuts sugar-coated as better customer service won't wash
This week Morrisons said it was axing 1,500 managerial positions but also creating 1,700 customer colleague roles
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News
Tea industry split over Co-op teabag pledge to cut plastic
Through a tie-up with Typhoo and Ahlstron-Munksjö a method of heat-sealing bags has been developed
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News
Morrisons to scrap 1,500 roles in revamp of in-store management
The retailer insisted it was creating 1,700 new positions as part of the shakeup…
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Grocer 33
Steaks are high as Asda outmuscles rivals again in Grocer 33
The shopping bill totals were higher this week, as the kilo of fillet steak skewered the total upwards
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Grocer 33
Morrisons Kilmarnock: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘It is good to hear that the store still looks and feels fresh. In the past six months we had a new-look café put in’
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Interviews
Jonathan Miller of McColl's on doing deals, scale, Nisa and Palmer & Harvey
CEO Jonathan Miller is determined the acquisitive McColl’s will remain a force for consolidation in convenience
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Grocer 33
Morrisons closes the gap but Asda takes another pricing win
At £57.86, Asda was just 93p cheaper than Morrisons
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News
Tim Fairs joins McColl's as customer director
Fairs joins from card and gifting retailer Clintons
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News
McColl's uses Safeway to drive takeup of Plus loyalty scheme
The convenience retailer has now launched the Safeway brand in 25 stores in the north west of England…
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News
Richard Walker to join The Grocer as latest guest editor
Walker has been the face of Iceland’s bold new environmental plan, which has attracted huge interest from UK media organisations