The Co-op news and analysis – Page 88
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Who we visited. Total Bonjour, Surbiton, Surrey. Nisa, Woodford, Manchester. Midlands Co-op Measham, Derbyshire. Londis Surbiton, Surrey. Tesco Express, Clifton, Bristol. How they performed. Our...
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United, Leeds next in run of Co-op mergers
Consolidation of the co-operative movement continued this week, with United Co-operatives and Leeds Co-operative Society set to merge. Leeds' members will vote on the tie-up at a meeting on 11 December. If two thirds vote in favour, a...
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Co-op offers lower prices on selection
The Co-op is offering reduced prices on certain wines until 3 December to encourage consumers to buy into the lesser known regions and varieties. Its white wine of the month is the Co-op Orvieto Classico 2005 from Italy, priced from...
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The Co-op bares its soul
Below cost selling, price flexing and applying restrictive covenants to land. Typical of Tesco? Asda? Sainsbury's? No - it's the Co-operative Group. The society, which prides itself on its ethical approach to business, this week published...
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Tesco backing S&A in ongoing worker row
Tesco and Sainbury's are standing by soft fruit grower S&A as it clashes again with unions. The Herefordshire strawberry growing co-op came under the spotlight earlier in the year after the TGWU received complaints from 200 migrant...
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Now coupons are getting personal
Somerfield has unveiled the replacement to its Saver Card loyalty scheme in the shape of a new entirely supplier-funded coupon programme.The supermarket, which dropped the card scheme in May as part of the new management's strategy...
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Who we visited. Londis, Goseley Avenue, Swadlincote, Derbyshire. Nisa, HazLemere Foodhall, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. ScotMid Co-Op, Morning Noon & Night, Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire. Smile, Kingsway, Little Stoke,...
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Co-ops to ditch familiar logo from own-label packaging
Co-operative societies are ditching the iconic Co-op 'clover' on own-label packaging as part of an overhaul to tie in with the unifying fascia created this year by the Co-operative Group. Current packaging for the 3,000 products branded...
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In Brief: Co-op Group in lead; RFID privacy fears; Getting technical
Co-op Group in lead The Co-operative Group is the UK's highest-placed society in a new global ranking of major co-operatives and mutuals. The listing, Global300, placed The Co-operative Group in ninth position, with United...
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Co-op boss retires from 'restructured' business
Martin Beaumont is to retire as chief executive of the Co-operative Group in October 2007. Beaumont, 57, has been at the helm of the UK's largest co-operative society for the past five years. He said that, after a sustained period of...
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Who we visitedcostcutter, Eden Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surreylondis, Brighton Road, Horsham, West Sussexsainsbury's LOCAL, Ealing Broadway, West Londonscottish Co-op Lenzie, Kirkintilloch, East...
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'This makes no sense'
Kwik Save store managers have reacted with astonishment to the company's purchase of 45 Somerfield stores at a time when it is still struggling with availability.Managers willing to speak to The Grocer claimed they had been warned off...
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Q&A with Hassi Singardia Manager of the Week
Was this store operating under a different banner recently? This used to be a Safeway store. I was already the manager here when Somerfield bought this store from Morrisons. We went through a conversion and refurbishment process a year...
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midcounties co-op, long hanborough
In July Midcounties Co-operative opened its most eco-friendly store in the Oxfordshire village of Long Hanborough. It is built on the site of an older, smaller shop backing on to the countryside surrounding Blenheim Palace.The first...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
The Somerfield store in The Broadway, Plymstock, Devon, won our Top Store award this time last year. Store manager Sharon Brodie had just completed a £1.2m refurbishment that included the introduction of self-service checkouts. Brodie was also...
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Kwik Save buys Somerfield stores
Troubled discounter Kwik Save has acquired 45 stores from Somerfield for an undisclosed sum. The chain, which has been hit by a series of problems this year, said that it had secured additional investment to finance the deal. However,...
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Net sales set todouble
A grocery retailer with sales exceeding those of Waitrose or Somerfield. That will be the size of the internet grocery market in the next five years as its value more than doubles, a new report seen exclusively by The Grocer reveals. The...
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Europa: new grey venture
Three former Somerfield heavyweights have launched an ambitious new wholesale and distribution venture to introduce new brands to the UK and take the grey ethics out of grey market sourcing. Europa Brands was launched on 1 October by...
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'Somerfield was a confused business'
Somerfield has pulled the plug on its Market Fresh and Essentials formats and wound up its franchising trials as its newly bedded-in management states its ambition to become the "local grocery store" of choice. It will also go all out to...
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In Brief: New Co-op members; Scheme shortlisted; Nutrition group
New Co-op members More than 33,000 people have signed up to become members of The Co-operative Group since its relaunch six weeks ago. The group is owned by its approximately two million members. Scheme...