Sainsbury's news and analysis – Page 179

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asda move signals a new era of change

2003-08-09T00:00:00Z

from Mark Dorgan, Management Group, PA Consulting GroupSir; Your report that Asda has moved ahead of Sainsbury to become the UK’s second largest supermarket behind Tesco (The Grocer, August 2), has raised a few questions in my mind. ...
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Sainsbury checks in self-service tills

2003-08-06T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury is to start a nationwide roll-out of self-service counters, to enable customers to scan and pack their own items before paying through interactive touch screens. The supermarket group plans to introduce the technology at 14,400...
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Walkers still tops chart

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Competition in the chart is extremely close this week with less than two percentage points separating the top five.Sainsbury moves up to the top of the chart just slightly ahead of Asda at number two. While Asda leans more towards price...
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Double blow for JS

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Overtaken by Asda and with its Somerfield hopes dashed, what are the options now for Sainsbury? Elaine Watson reportsPlot the market share of Asda and Sainsbury on a graph since 1999 and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that their...
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Asda hails food strength

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Asda boss Tony DeNunzio has rejected claims that non-food sales alone have swept it past Sainsbury to take the number two slot in UK grocery.Speaking as TNS till roll data revealed Asda had boosted its market share to 17% against Sainsbury’s...
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Asda and Sainsbury slug it out

2003-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury is still holding onto second place in our TradeTrak survey, despite the latest TNS Superpanel data showing that Asda has overtaken JS and secured second place for the first time in the four weeks to July 20.The disparity is...
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Under pressure

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury’s bosses insist they will deliver says Sean McAllisterSainsbury’s annual general meeting proved to be a bit of an anti-climax this week. The national papers had undertaken a concerted attack on its strategy and performance...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

There's often a mealy mouthed feel about accusations, denials, court proceedings, judgements, fines, public disdain and moral high ground taken by litigants and public observers. The York-Sainsbury case is a fine example. Suppliers invent an alcohol...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

"To compete effectively you need the best people and you can't say the best people are always male and white." That is how Sainsbury's corporate personnel director Judith Evans sums up the business case for diversity in the workplace. She...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The banner headlines said it all. When Sainsbury announced its profits warning last weekend, there was never a doubt the issue would make a rapid transfer from the business columns to the front pages of the broadsheets. And while the fortunes of...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

We'll buy British but not at any price. That was the message barely concealed between the lines of IGD president Tom Vyner's speech at the final flag-waving conference of the Strathclyde Food Project last week. You might say the Sainsbury deputy...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The club warehouse system has resurfaced in a different form. Will it be first of many? When Sainsbury bought the three Cargo Clubs from Nurdin & Peacock it believed planning and trading permissions would be adjusted to allow supermarket trading....
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Anyone who believed the General Election campaign would be conducted in an intelligent manner should have been among the shoppers at Sainsbury's supermarket at London's Nine Elms on Thursday. The farce began when entourages from our two major...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury's bid to convince shareholders, City analysts and sceptical financial writers that it is making progress in the battle to regain the marketing high ground from Tesco was reflected on two fronts this week. The multiple sent more than a...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>what’s tempted King to go to JS? And does the uk need to farm?When we caught up with Justin King this week, he was being suitably discreet about what he said – which was very little – as he sailed out of M& S to start his...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>sainsbury must be clear about its convenience strategyAnother day, another retailer. As mentioned in this column just two weeks ago, The Grocer’s Top 50 ranking of independent retailers is proving a useful shopping list for...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>Britain’s top retailer continues to extend its lead over rivalsWhile everybody has rightly been focusing this week on the fact that Asda has finally overtaken Sainsbury to occupy the number two spot in the supermarket league table,...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>A retailer running to stand still may yet catch upAmid all the flak that flew Sainsbury’s way this week, it was interesting to note that none of the chain’s many critics were able to offer any sensible suggestions as to what Sir...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

sainsbury must beware the pitfalls of the middle groundI guess there was a certain amount of inevitability about this week’s announcement from Sainsbury that Sir Peter Davis was leaving early. And, after all the corporate shenanigans...
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No one in the JS wings yet

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Sainsbury has denied that it has chosen a successor to Sir Peter Davis as group chief executive when he steps up to become chairman in March 2004. Speaking at its agm, current chairman Sir George Bull said there was no preliminary list of...