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NewsThe Big Price Drop: Tesco unveils its £500m fightback
Tesco is to plough £500m into a huge new offensive that will see 3,000 products slashed in price. The Big Price Drop launches on Monday, as predicted yesterday by The Grocer, kicking off what many expect to be a full-scale price war in the run-up to Christmas.
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NewsPlastic fantastic for Sainsbury’s peanut butter
Sainsbury’s has switched its peanut butter jars from glass to plastic, in a move the retailer said would reduce carbon emissions by more than 150 tonnes a year. Packaging has been cut by 83% - or 882,000 kilos – as a result of the change, meaning the lighter jars require less fuel to transport.
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NewsTesco to raise £300m from Thai property sell-off
Tesco is bidding to unlock hundreds of millions of pounds from its Asian property empire. Its Thai subsidiary, Tesco Lotus, is looking to raise more than £300m via an initial public offering for a new property fund secured against 15 of its hypermarkets in Thailand.
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NewsTesco gears up for massive new pricing offensive
Tesco is set to unveil a major shift in pricing strategy, as the UK’s largest supermarket gears up for a price war this Christmas. A dramatic new offensive – due to begin next week – could see it switch emphasis from promotions, which Tesco has reportedly come to see as ...
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NewsNew dawn in convenience pricing as Budgens takes on Tesco
Musgrave has ushered in a new dawn for convenience pricing in the UK with a pledge that its Budgens stores will price match Tesco on 800 products. The programme represents the first move by a symbol group to match Tesco’s prices since…
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NewsOcado debuts savings club as margins face new squeeze
Shares in Ocado slumped 12% this morning on news of a slowdown in sales growth. Gross sales growth for the 12 weeks to 7 August was 16.9%, down from 17.2% in the second quarter.
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NewsFive years on, Tyrrells ends that Tesco spat
Tyrrells crisps will be appearing on Tesco shelves from today (19 September) - five years after a row in which former owner Will Chase threatened to sue the retailer for selling its products via the grey market. The full Tyrrells range will be going...
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Comment & Opinion
Morrisons' missing millions
Scanning the national newspapers this morning you might be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that today was the proverbial slow news day.
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Waitrose targeting Tesco rather than Ocado inside M25
Waitrose MD Mark Price claims the retailer's expansion of its online service into London will steal market share from Tesco not Ocado. Describing Ocado as a "business partner", Price said his goal was for Waitrose and Ocado to overtake...
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Analysis & Features
Waitrose ramps up its deal activity, acting on impulse
The only retailer to increase its year-on-year promotional activity last month was Waitrose.
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Tesco baffled as ASA bans sausage advert
Tesco said it was "baffled" by the ASA's decision this week to ban a TV ad for its Butcher's Choice sausages. The watchdog upheld four complaints that challenged whether the ad, showing pigs roaming in a field and walking freely in a...
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NewsRustlers back in Tesco after two-year break
Rustlers burgers will return to Tesco's shelves next month after a two-year break as Kepak Conven-ience Foods ramps up NPD and distribution in a bid to double the size of the business in the next five years. All of Kepak's products were...
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Dobbies aligns structure with parent Tesco
Tesco-owned Dobbies Garden Centre has made changes to its board to "align the company with the Tesco group structure" following the change in registration from plc to limited company this month. Kevin Grace, Tesco UK property director,...
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NewsCan Fairtrade help UK farmers bag a fairer retail deal?
Within weeks of Tesco escalating the milk wars by rolling out its Creamfields brand to whole and semi-skimmed, the Fairtrade Foundation is working on a groundbreaking initiative with British farmers to see whether elements of the Fairtrade model...
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NewsSainsbury’s in Braille first
Sainsbury's has become the UK's first supermarket to introduce Braille on shelf barkers. Bethan Wilson, the manager of its at its Woolton store in Liverpool, came up with the idea to improve the shopping experience for her blind and...
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NewsRetailers unite to fight campylobacter threat
Eight of the country's biggest food retailers and the three largest chicken processors have joined forces to tackle the most common cause of food poisoning campylobacter in raw meat. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, The Co-operative...
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NewsOcado signs supply deal with Scheckter's ‘university of organics’
Ocado has signed a new supply deal with the ‘biodynamic’ organic farm run by former Formula One champ Jody Scheckter.
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NewsNew Sainsbury’s slogan tells shoppers to Live Well For Less
Sainsbury’s has unveiled a new slogan to replace its long-standing ‘Try Something New Today' strapline. The successor – ‘Live Well For Less’ – aims to drive home a message of quality and value.
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NewsTesco in hot water over pig welfare claims
Tesco has been slammed by the advertising watchdog for misleading shoppers about the conditions in which pigs used for its Butcher's Choice sausages are reared.
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NewsInvestment dents Waitrose profits but food sales stay on upward curve
Waitrose has suffered a drop in half-year operating profits of almost 14%, despite food sales growing impressively on a like-for-like basis. Profits for the past six months fell by £17.6m to £110.2m, Waitrose announced today. The performance follows heavy investment on its stores and squeezed margins on some lines as ...