All Supermarkets articles – Page 394
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NewsHe’s queasy, but Hugh lets Tesco off the hook
After years of hounding the nation’s biggest retailer, campaigning chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has finally buried the hatchet with Tesco and will instead focus his attention on John West when his Fish Fight returns to TV on Monday.
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Analysis & FeaturesFish Special: The start of the line?
The first MSC-certified line-caught fish from Iceland is hitting Sainsbury’s now. Nick Hughes visits the country to see if its tie-up with Saemark presents a blueprint for the future
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NewsYorkshire presents first official sausage
The UK’s largest county, Yorkshire, has got an official sausage at last. The Yorkshire Sausage rolls out to nine Morrisons stores next week. Its launch follows a three-month campaign to find an official Yorkshire sausage, led by local…
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NewsFresh & Easy wines hit the UK as Tesco shakes up sourcing
A Californian wine previously available only in Tesco's Fresh & Easy stores is going on sale in the UK as the retailer ramps up efforts to harmonise its international wine sourcing. WineWrights 2010 pinot noir, which has a 13.9% abv....
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NewsCo-op staff reveal details of its new ‘sales drive’ on Facebook
The Co-operative Group is understood to have launched several in-store initiatives to boost sales. Following two-hour in-store briefings with operations managers, staff have been discussing a “new sales drive” on Facebook.
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NewsSmall batch Indian sauces from Anand
TV chef and cookery writer Anjum Anand has launched seven premium home cooking sauces into Waitrose. The Spice Tailor range of ambient sauces (rsp: £2.89/255g) are hand-made in small batches in India. The line-up, inspired by regional...
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Analysis & Features
Asda roars ahead of rivals in driving up promo levels
The distraction is back. After scaling back its activity, Asda has upped the ante again, running 24.1% more deals last month than a year ago.
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NewsMarchant steps up in Tesco clothing shake-up
Tesco has reshuffled its clothing executive team. The retail giant has promoted UK buying director Jan Marchant to the role of design director for its F&F Europe clothing operation.
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NewsTesco backtracks over badger cull ‘boycott’ claim
Tesco has moved to clarify its policy on the planned badger cull in England, after one of its customer services managers mistakenly sent out a letter claiming it would not source from any suppliers involved in the cull.
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Grocer 33Waitrose, Rickmansworth
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Each week the winning store manager is interviewed by The Grocer.
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NewsExpress format comes to Fresh & Easy
Tesco will open its first smaller-format US store in November. The Fresh & Easy Express will be half the size of existing Fresh & Easy stores, at around 4,000 sq ft.
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NewsTesco in Harlow depot sale and leaseback
Tesco has announced another sale and leaseback deal, in the latest move by the supermarket giant to unlock cash from its vast property estate. The UK’s largest retailer has sold its distribution facility in Harlow to London & Stamford Property for £22.9m.
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NewsPixie Lott and Sugababes sweeten Super Saturday line-up
Pixie Lott and the Sugababes are the latest pop heavyweights to sign up for Sainsbury’s one-day festival celebrating the upcoming Paralympic Games.
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NewsTesco’s virtual store in Korea could spark shopping revolution
Tesco’s trial of virtual shopping in a South Korean subway station is set to be expanded next month and could pave the way for similar hi-tech ‘stores’ in the UK. Last month, Tesco’s Korean arm Home Plus transformed Seoul’s Hangangjin…
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NPD should be a combined effort
Sir, Tesco's Dan Jago "hasn't seen any earth-shattering NPD in the last 18 months" ('How creative is the drinks business?', 16 July). That kind of NPD is seen once in a blue moon hence the longevity of the brands in The Grocer top 100 alcohol...
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Focus On Canned Goods: Innovations
The new Stay Full range (rsp: £1.69 for 400g), which includes beetroot, tomato & buckwheat and spiced butternut squash & edamame bean flavours, will make its debut in Morrisons before hitting Tesco shelves.
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News‘A tremendous intellect’: sad loss of Bowes
The industry is mourning the loss of John Bowes, a Fairtrade and The Co-op Group veteran, who passed away last weekend while undergoing treatment for a heart condition. Bowes, 59, worked at The Co-operative Group for more than 30 years...
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Co-op boss tells how Kenya trip ‘opened his eyes’ to Fairtrade
The Co-operative Group's CEO Peter Marks has admitted he "really didn't get" Fairtrade until a recent visit to Kenya. Blogging this week on the website of the Depart-ment for International Development about his visit to a 'co-operative to...
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Analysis & FeaturesHow much ground has been lost by Waitrose web woes?
Waitrose has been the retailer seemingly impervious to hitches and glitches – until it came to the launch of its online delivery service.
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NewsBarfoots cuts corn on the cob down to size
Own-label sweetcorn supplier Barfoots of Botley has launched its first branded product a bag of cob segments designed to be eaten as a snack. Sweetcorn Bites (rsp: £1.99 for a pack of eight) went on sale in Waitrose this week. They can...