The Co-op news and analysis – Page 101
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Shoppers fail to live up to healthy aspirations
Consumers are duping themselves when it comes to healthy eating, according to early findings from the Co-operative Group’s new labelling trial.While shoppers claim to prefer healthy options, their shopping baskets often tell a different story,...
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Margram eyes further sites
Margram has sold off its entire retail business to Somerfield and is developing further sites for the supermarket chain.However, the independent retailer, previously ranked 30 in The Grocer Top 50, is planning to run company-owned forecourts...
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Yeardley takes reins at Lincolnshire Co-op
New retail operations manager Ray Yeardley began working with the Lincolnshire Co-operative last month, taking over from Mike Mawer, who is retiring.Yeardley was previously the MD of Supergifts Company, which has 40 Superpounds stores across...
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Co-op and Oxfam push for mobile phone recycling
The Co-op is urging people to recycle their old mobile phones to raise money for Oxfam projects across the globe. On the 3rd of January the Co-op launched an in-store drive to collect old mobile phones and empty inkjet and laser cartridges...
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Retailers yet to back OTM beef
The big retailers are refusing to commit to stocking over 30-month beef when the OTM rule is abolished, probably some time next year.Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons and Somerfield all stopped short of pledging to sell products made from the...
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n co-op’s a good eggThe Co-operative Group has won a Good Egg Award for increasing free range egg sales.The British Free Range Egg Producers Association praised the retailer for increasing the free range share of its total egg sales from 11% to 60% in six years....
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Somerfield rolls out budget back catalogue DVDs
Somerfield is rolling out a permanent budget range of back catalogue DVDs in larger Somerfield and Kwik Save stores.The budget range occupies a standalone spinner unit in the DVD sales area with three facings holding 45 titles. It will be...
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Somerfield enhances links with GCT
Somerfield and chilled consolidator Grampian Country Transport (GCT) have announced that GCT has entered into an agreement with Logistics Solutions Cambs to take over the operation of its chilled distribution warehouse in Littleport, near Ely....
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Corollary attributes
The Co-operative Group is trialling a little-known yellow flesh salad potato called Corolle.Originally grown in France, the potato is being produced in the UK for the first time by Produce World. Corolle potatoes are being sold under the...
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Somerfield rolls out business delivery arm
Somerfield is rolling out its business delivery service to 300 stores nationwide after the successful trial in 38 stores across Scotland that began in May.The service is designed to cut bills and shopping time for businesses such as bed &...
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It’s fresh. And fast!
In the second of our Back to the Floor series, Siân Harrington spends a day as a colleague at Somerfield’s thriving Market Fresh store in East Dulwich, and finds the pace relentlessIn a previous life, Somerfield store manager Jason...
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Doing it yourself - it makes sense
It’s more than a gimmick. Co-op Today makes a solid business case for only having self-checkout says Elaine WatsonIt was a bold move, admits Bill Laird, as he launches the first store in Europe serviced purely through self-checkout. ...
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Essentials alteration
Somerfield has appointed Doug Hall to take over from Steve Tremlett as head of its Somerfield Essentials convenience format.Tremlett remains in the format team, but has moved to manage the reformatting of the 114 stores that Somerfield recently...
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Whitbread quits Somerfield
The resignation of Robin Whitbread, Somerfield Group’s buying and marketing director and MD of Kwik Save, has sparked City speculation that he believed he was being sidelined.“I suspect he became disillusioned when he did not get the chief...
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Appeal of the interior
The Cameo apple is consolidating its presence in UK retail with five UK supermarkets now stocking it – Tesco, Budgens, the Co-op, Booths and Somerfield.Cameo is grown in Europe by members of the European Cameo Club, which controls all aspects...
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Midlands Co-op acquires Metro
Midlands Co-op has boosted its food retail estate to 162 stores with the acquisition of The Grocer Top 50 member Metro Discount Stores. The eight-store Burton-based chain is the latest in a string of Nisa members to be swallowed up in recent...
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Robin Whitbread resigns
Kwik Save MD and Somerfield’s group buying and marketing director Robin Whitbread has resigned with immediate effect. The Somerfield board has also announced that Katie Bickerstaffe has been appointed group retail director and will take on...
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Restructuring ahead as Co-op’s Bowes departs
John Bowes, chief general manager for strategy at the Co-operative Group’s retail division, is leaving the business at the end of this month to pursue other interests.Bowes has been heavily involved in the refit programme for the Co-operative...