All Supermarkets articles – Page 465

  • LIZ-HAMSON
    News

    Critical Eye... on a dubious return to the Eastern Bloc

    2011-02-12T00:00:00Z

    I haven't visited The People's Supermarket. So I can only go on the evidence presented in the first in a three-part series tracking eco-restaurateur Arthur Potts Dawson's mission to stick one to Tesco by opening a supermarket that's for the...

  • LAURA WADE-GERY
    Analysis & Features

    Tesco loses fizz as its dotcom queen quits for M&S board

    2011-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Why did Tesco.com’s leading lady walk from Tesco just two weeks after her elevation to the retailer’s UK executive committee? Rob Brown reports

  • News

    Tesco fuel deal ‘may be last nail in coffin’ for indie forecourts

    2011-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Retailers have warned that Tesco's new fuel price deal could be the final nail in the coffin for independent forecourts. This week, Tesco started offering shoppers a 5p-a-litre saving on fuel when they spend £50 or more in store and...

  • News

    Divine offers foil coins for Red Nose Day

    2011-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Divine Chocolate is launching bags of milk chocolate coins wrapped in shiny red foil in support of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. Available exclusively from Sainsbury's from next month, Divine will donate 5p from each bag sold to the...

  • HAND-SHADOWS-AGAINST-SKY
    News

    Tesco ‘Creamfields’ dispute is resolved

    2011-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Tesco and festival organisers Cream Holidings have resolved a long-running trademark dispute over the use of the Creamfields brand, it has emerged.

    The supermarket, which uses Creamfields as a tertiary brand on own-label dairy products,…

  • MILK BOTTLES PLASTIC
    News

    Milk dispensers may see bottles binned for good

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The plastic milk bottle could soon be consigned to the bin as the UK looks set to enter a refill revolution. The Grocer has learnt that Eziserv, the company that supplied refill technology to Asda for a recent Wrap-funded dispensing trial...

  • WAITROSE
    News

    Waitrose duck supplier hit by welfare exposé

    2011-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Waitrose has been caught up in a row over animal welfare after undercover footage revealed that ducks on a supplier's free-range farm had been subjected to cruel treatment.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Tug of Laura

    2011-02-08T00:00:00Z

    They used to say you really never leave the KGB. Or the CIA, for that matter. Apropos of nothing, it’s hard to think of many people who’ve jumped ship early from Tesco in recent times and gone on to genuinely bigger and better things.

  • CHEESE-PIECES
    News

    FSA in allergy alert over Co-op Cheddars

    2011-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The Co-operative Group has had to withdraw two own-label Cheddars after they were found to contain high levels of histamine, which can trigger symptoms of an allergic reaction. The retailer withdrew a total of 172 cases amounting to...

  • News

    Fibrous ‘on-the-go’ Super Juice for M&S

    2011-02-05T00:00:00Z

    A new fruit juice with cholesterol-lowering claims has been developed for Marks & Spencer. The Red Grape, Blueberry and Blackcurrant Super Juice, available now, is made with a blend of fruits boosted by oat beta glucan the soluble...

  • ASDA DATING 2
    News

    Asda dating website to pair up singleton shoppers

    2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Lovelorn Asda shoppers need not wander the supermarket aisles alone any longer. The retailer has launched a dating website that matches potential partners based on their shopping habits.

  • ASDA
    News

    Watchdog raps Asda over misleading Guarantee ad

    2011-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Asda's original Price Guarantee ads, which aired from April last year, have been smacked down by the Advertising Standards Authority for being misleading and untruthful. And the retailer could face further run-ins with the watchdog.

  • Comment & Opinion

    Asda's running battle

    2011-01-31T00:00:00Z

    Football fans will know that today is transfer deadline day – and with Liverpool seemingly poised to splash out £35m on pony-tailed carthorse Andy Carroll, there’s surely a suitably clumsy metaphor to be found about shopping around for value.

  • CHRISTOPHER-KILEY
    News

    Welsh chain CKs sustains loss of £23k

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    CKs Supermarkets has vowed to push on with its expansion plans despite falling into the red. The chain bought four stores from The Co-operative Group in July 2009 and although the purchase boosted sales by 16.8% to £29.4m in the year to...

  • TOP OF THE FLOPS
    News

    Top of the Flops: When entertainment exclusives go bad

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Tesco’s Coronation Street album is just the latest embarrassing flop for the retailer, so why is it persevering with its entertainment exclusives, asks Suzy Bashford

  • HUGHS-FISH-FIGHT
    News

    Dab and mackerel get new boost from Hugh

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Less than three weeks after Hugh's Fish Fight hit TV screens, Sainsbury's is to almost double its distribution of dab and Young's is adding battered mackerel to its portfolio both under-utilised fish featured in the C4 series.

  • DOUWE-EGBERTS-COFFEE
    News

    Douwe Egberts guns for ground coffee fans

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Douwe Egberts hopes to take the grind out of making ground coffee with the launch of a compressed ground coffee tablet a UK first, it claims.

    Aromettes, which will hit Tesco in mid February, are solid, single-portion blocks of ground…

  • News

    Tesco wins planning for Enfield DC

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Tesco will create 550 new job opportunities after winning planning permission for a new e-commerce distribution centre in Enfield, North London. The supermarket giant signed a £20m deal with Gazeley, a global provider of sustainable...

  • FINDUS-FRESHER-TASTE
    News

    Jobs threat at Findus Grimsby fish factory

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    As many as 84 jobs are ­under threat at Findus Group’s Humberstone Road frozen fish facility in Grimsby, after Sainsbury’s confirmed it had ditched Young’s as the supplier of some of its lines.

    Findus started a 30-day consultation with…

  • News

    Focus On Meat Free: Innovations

    2011-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Garden Gourmet is a four-strong range from frozen meat-free specialists Tivall that was launched into 150 Sainsbury's stores in October.