All Supermarkets articles – Page 418
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OFT greenlights Co-op’s Somerfield deal but 126 stores must be sold
The Co-operative Group's £1.57bn acquisition of Somerfield has been rubber-stamped by the Office of Fair Trading.
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In Season: Mackerel
The credit crunch has had a positive impact on the sales of one type of fish at least, with Waitrose reporting a 76% year-on-year volume increase in mackerel sales. Shoppers were choosing mackerel because it cost a third of the price of cod, the...
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Shoppers’ shift to local benefits co-op societies
Midcounties Co-operative Society and Plymouth & South West Co-operative Society are celebrating stellar half-year results thanks to strong food sales. Midcounties Co-op said food sales in the 26 weeks to 26 July rose 10.7% to £237.7m. Overall sales...
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Waitrose offering a drop of the God stuff
God is hitting the drinks aisle at Waitrose in the form of a new lager from Sweden. God Lager – whose names translates as ‘good’ in Swedish – is produced by the Nils Oscar micro-brewery. The dark lager is bottled at 5.3% abv in 33cl packs and will...
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Co-op bakery offer taken in-house
The Co-operative Group has taken its in-store bakery offer in-house. It has launched a 57-strong range of products including bread, rolls, pastries and cakes across its 1,483 in-store bakeries, as well as a further 433 Co-op stores run by smaller...
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Indies call for Co-op’s expulsion from ACS
There were calls this week for the Co-operative Group’s membership of the Association of Convenience Stores to be revoked following its £1.57bn acquisition of Somerfield in July. Some independents claimed the society’s size post-merger as the UK’s...
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‘Last chance to create a fifth player,’ says Co-op's Hurrell
How is Tim Hurrell, head of The Co-operative Group’s food business, going to propel it into the premiership of grocery retailing, asks Beth Phillips
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Waitrose, Booths alliance 'is not prelude to merger’
Waitrose has ruled out a future acquisition of northern chain Booths, after the two retailers announced plans to join forces on a new buying alliance. The move will allow both retailers to make savings by negotiating together on branded goods....
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Co-op’s food MD vows to sharpen act on low prices
The Co-operative Group has revealed plans to improve its value offering as it unveiled record interim results this week. New food retail MD Tim Hurrell said the society planned to relaunch its Everyday value range next year, revamping its packaging...
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NewsGrocer 33: A Waitrose a notch above the others
High-quality products and excellent availability as well as friendly and chatty staff helped Waitrose in Billericay land this week’s Top Store award
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Co-op’s Marks next to say food inflation has peaked
The Co-operative Group has joined Andy Bond in claiming food inflation has peaked, less than two weeks after the Asda chief predicted prices would soon start to fall.
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Confident Co-op unveils record H1 performance
The Co-operative Group has underlined its readiness to join a supermarket 'big five' as its food division pushed the group to record profits and sales for the first half of the year.
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Waitrose, Booths shake on surprise buying alliance
Waitrose has signed a surprise deal with supermarket rival Booths to pool their resources and share buying duties on a range of products. Booths, which enjoys a similarly upmarket reputation to its larger partner, will co-operate with Waitrose on sourcing a number of products in a bid to lower costs.
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New mystery shop survey rates convenience stores
The Grocer has launched a mystery shopping survey for the convenience sector. As part of The Grocer’s new-look Independent View section, the mystery shop benchmarks independents against symbol groups, co-ops, discounters and the multiples’...
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M&S scorns claims Waitrose is cheaper
Marks & Spencer this week hit back at claims by John Lewis that Waitrose is 10% cheaper. John Dixon, M&S’s director of food, said he was surprised at John Lewis’s chairman Charlie Mayfield’s comments. M&S products cost the same or less than at...
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Good value ad drive by Co-op Group
In the same week that Tesco and Asda launched an all-out price war on value lines, The Co-op Group launched a campaign to prove it’s also good value. The society doubled its usual press activity to trumpet its A Great Deal Locally campaign with...
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Yorkshire range by Co-operative Group
The Co-operative Group has teamed up with local producers in Yorkshire to bring together products from the county in a branded range. Made In Yorkshire, available in 38 The Co-operative stores in Yorkshire, includes products such as beer, ice cream...
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Charlie’s class conflict
There’s no escaping class in the UK. Last week former Fast Show funnyman and kids’ author Charlie Higson was scoping out his local Waitrose researching a new book about a post-apocalyptic world without adults. The book sees one gang of middle-class...
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Shoppers urged to boycott multiples over cost of organic
The Soil Association is advising consumers to save money on organic food by spurning the supermarkets – using box schemes, co-ops and farmers’ markets instead. In an apparent u-turn for the association, policy director Peter Melchett said organic...
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Premium grocer Waitrose says it’s cheaper than Aldi
It is known as a premium retailer and is always the most expensive supermarket in The Grocer 33 weekly pricing survey. Yet this week, Waitrose claimed it was cheaper than hard discounter Aldi – in six of its 25 categories at least. Unveiling a 2.5%...