Sainsbury's news and analysis – Page 181
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Top team changes at JS
Sainsbury has made internal management appointments as it replaces key executives.Penny Vegting is appointed brand and format development manager. She replaces Diana Hunter, senior project manager for future stores. Hunter left Sainsbury...
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E-pay terminals
Sainsbury has introduced electronic top-up terminals from E-pay at all its stores and petrol stations. Category manager Charlotte Alberry said: “The shift from scratchcard to electronic enables us to avoid extra costs from keeping cards in...
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Sainsbury’s gain is a high street loss
While January is traditionally a quiet time of year, with trading patterns returning to normal, both Tesco and Asda are continuing to attract new shoppers according to ACNielsen’s Homescan Total Till information. Meanwhile, Sainsbury has seen a...
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Sainsbury is set to roll out zone-based picking
Sainsbury is investing millions of pounds in rolling out a new instore picking strategy for its online business following successful trials in six stores.The retailer is moving to zone-based picking in an initiative that will see 2,500 staff...
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Sainsbury to offer health checks
Shoppers at two Sainsbury’s stores in London can now have their health checked at the same time as buying their groceries. Sainsbury has teamed up with Bupa to offer its shoppers a range of health checks such as blood pressure and...
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JS puts flavour back into pork
Sainsbury is hoping to reinvigorate the British pork sector with the launch of a new range of premium products.The Taste the Difference range features 14 cuts produced from a new cross breed of pig exclusively for Sainsbury.Pork buyer Ben...
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Six of the best household goods buyers
>>nominated this month: Tesco, somerfield, Morrisons, ASDA, sainsbury, makroMike ArnottSenior buying manager, household, tescoArnott joined Tesco in 1995 to work in product marketing for two years. He then moved into...
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Label revamp plans revealed
Sainsbury is upping the ante in its own label war with Tesco by revamping its premium Taste the Difference line, The Grocer has learned.It is understood the top-secret overhaul will centre on cleaning up the packaging and accelerating...
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Sainsbury’s workers accept pay offer
Warehouse workers at a Sainsbury’s distribution centre in Merseyside have voted to accept a pay offer, bringing an end to a month’s industrial action at the site. The new pay rate of £7.50 per hour is to be linked to improved productivity at...
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Sainsbury in talks to buy TM Retail
City sources have confirmed that Sainsbury is in talks to buy the 1,201-store TM Retail chain.A source close to the deal said the price tag was £200m to £250m, not £130m as Sainsbury was reported to be offering in the press last weekend....
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‘Cattle must be shaped for steak’
The growth of single-person households is set to change the shape of the UK’s beef animals, according to Sainsbury’s livestock manager.Demand for traditional short, heavy-boned animals with large rumps would fall by the wayside as steak meat...
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Salt levels ignorance
Research commissioned by Sainsbury to coincide with Salt Awareness Day suggests 90% of consumers don’t know the safe limits for salt intake.Only 10% of those questioned knew the correct Food Standards Agency dietary target of 6g salt a day in...
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The promise of provenance
A new Sainsbury store in Belfast is committed to sourcing from the province. Rod Addy reportsThere’s more to come with the opening of a 1,000 sq ft in-store pharmacy in March and a series of in-store events planned....
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Sainsbury plans IT savings
Sainsbury said that a plans to buy the IT services intermediary Swan Infrastructure would reduce net costs by £25m starting from its 2004 financial year.Sainsbury group chief executive, Sir Peter Davis, said the move would simplify the...
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City: ‘Savacentre is not working’
Sainsbury has sold its 71,000 sq ft Savacentre in Basildon to Asda and ruled out any new openings under the brand until it can get the non-food right. The move follows the sale of the Stockton Savacentre last year and the recent downsizing of...
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Sainsbury links up with L&G
Sainsbury has confirmed that Legal & General will market life assurance policies to its customers.Policies will be sold over the phone with information also available online and in all of Sainsbury's stores.Chief executive of...
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Sainsbury faces fourth strike day
Staff at Sainsbury’s Haydock distribution centre were preparing to go on strike for the fourth time in less than three weeks as The Grocer went to press on Thursday.The latest action follows one-day strikes on December 29, January 7 and January...
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Sainsbury to face further strikes
Sainsbury’s Haydock distribution centre was hit by industrial action again last night and workers have not ruled out a fourth strike.The news follows one-day strikes on December 29, January 7 and January 13 after talks between the company...
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Retailers unfazed by wait for Atkins
Tesco and Sainsbury head a list of leading retailers that will have to wait until September to stock a new range of official Atkins products.The Grocer revealed last month that US-based Atkins Nutritionals, the company behind the controversial...
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Farm links via the net
Consumers will soon be able to trace their organic chicken back to the farm via the internet, thanks to Sainsbury.From the beginning of next month, customers will be able to enter a code from the chickens’ label on to the Sainsbury website to...