Sainsbury's news and analysis – Page 142
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Sainsbury’s reaps rewards of Fairtrade
Sales of bananas at Sainsbury’s have risen 6% in the year since it switched all its bananas to Fairtrade. The retailer now sells 1,000 bananas a minute, with sales of the fruit at an all-time high, it claimed. Sainsbury’s revealed the rise this week...
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Socks kick off Steve Redgrave Fairtrade range at Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s is joining forces with Olympic rowing hero Steve Redgrave to become the first supermarket to sell the champion’s Fairtrade clothing range. The launch of the FiveG range into Sainsbury’s kicks off with cotton socks for men, which are...
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Sainsbury’s hailed as greenest supermarket
Sainsbury’s has been voted the UK’s greenest supermarket chain by a team of independent environmental analysts assembled by The Grocer.
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Loch Duart acquires Salar Smokehouse
Scottish salmon farmer Loch Duart has moved into the value-added sector with the acquisition of Hebridean smokery Salar Smokehouse. Loch Duart sells fresh salmon through fish counters in Sainsbury’s and other outlets, and was already supplying...
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Tight Scots to see Nectar points cut
Sainsbury’s is changing the terms of its Nectar card in Scotland so shoppers spending under £50 will now earn just one point per pound rather than two. An incremental scale has been introduced to reward shoppers with extra points for spending more,...
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Venison pizza ready to debut in Scotland
A venison pizza, thought to be the first commercially available on a wide scale, will make its debut in Sainsbury’s stores in the first week of November. The pizza has been developed by game processor Highland Game and Scottish-Italian pizza...
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NewsGrocer 33: Sainsbury’s impresses in Gateshead
Sainsbury’s in Gateshead netted this week’s top store award, despite being the fourth-most-suited retailer to the area.
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Suppliers shocked as own-label blitz launched on brands
Branded suppliers were left reeling this week as Tesco and Sainsbury’s both launched concerted campaigns promoting their own-label ranges at the expense of brands. Sainsbury’s announced a massive Switch & Save campaign, across all media, that will...
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Making the most of the multiples
How much of the market do the multiples command? According to Mintel they now account for more than 50% of sales, while TNS says they have a 61% share by value, headed by Tesco then Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, the hard discounters and...
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Aldi celebrates 19.8% growth by joining BRC
Aldi has joined the British Retail Consortium, as new figures confirm the growing success of discounters. The German discounter joined the likes of Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s while celebrating 19.8% sales growth in the past year, and a record 3%...
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Pre-paid card keeps student beer fund full
Sainsbury’s is launching an innovative new Meal Ticket scheme designed to assure worried parents their kids are feeding themselves properly at university. Next month, it is bringing out a pre-paid card that parents can top up at their local store,...
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Sainsbury’s claims it’s greenest in UK
Sainsbury’s has opened what it claims is the UK’s greenest supermarket. The timber-built store in Dartmouth, Devon, which opened this week, is heated by a biomass boiler that halves the amount of energy taken from the national grid. Rainwater is...
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Retailers maintain highstandards
Online services rise to the occasion with another good performance. Shame about Sainsbury’s shocking use of 14 bags
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A £5 family meal is no big deal, claims Tesco
Tesco sought this week to undermine Sainsbury’s ‘Feed your family for a fiver’ meal deal claiming it could feed a family of four for less than a fiver a day – covering all three meals. In a bid to underscore its low-price credentials, Tesco said...
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M&S brands cheaper than at Sainsbury’s, new survey finds
M&S brands cheaper than at Sainsbury’s, new survey finds: The brands in Marks & Spencer’s branded goods trial are cheaper than at Sainsbury’s, a survey by analyst Blue Oar Securities has revealed. The survey, which Blue Oar admitted was “fairly crude”, looked at 40 brands and found that M&S had ...
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Sainsbury’s HR appeals total just 25
Five hundred newly appointed HR managers began, this week, their new roles at Sainsbury’s, following its recent HR Change programme. The retailer reduced the previous 850 personnel manager roles to 500 in a bid to change the administrative-heavy...
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Promotrack: Own-label offers sizzle with barbecue appeal
Asda and Sainsbury’s both pushed own-label meat, but there were a raft of other hot summer offers in store at the weekend
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Sainsbury’s takes the axe to HR and training
Sainsbury’s is shaking up its HR and training department both at head office and across its store network in a move that could lead to significant job losses. It is understood to be cutting the number of people in its Personnel and Training...
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Promotrack: Confectionery and fizzy drinks rule in impulse
Ambient confectionery topped the impulse promotion chart at Asda and Sainsbury’s, but their rivals had other priorities
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Sainsbury’s pours its last drink online
The retailer is abandoning its drinks website at the end of the month. Where did it go wrong, asks Graham Holter