All Grocery articles – Page 694

  • News

    Iceland founder hits out at soaring shop crime

    2008-07-11T09:22:13Z

    “We are plagued with a tidal wave of shoplifting. 50 per cent of the time it turns violent. Our store managers are physically attacked, spat at, assaulted – it’s out of control.”

  • News

    Shopper loyalty hits new low

    2008-07-11T09:22:00Z

    UK consumers are more disloyal than ever, with 22 per cent saying they are dissatisfied with the store they shop most at and would prefer to shop somewhere else.

  • Analysis

    When Aldi came to town

    2008-07-10T14:23:37Z

    Aldi is attracting middle-class shoppers with its low prices and no-frills approach. Liz Morrell reports from the front line on how it is winning hearts, minds – and wallets

  • News

    Sainsbury's e-tail service restored

    2008-07-10T14:20:59Z

    Sainsbury's e-tail site is working again after being put out of action for much of the day because of supplier technical problems.

  • News

    Carrefour’s Dia to ramp up c-stores in Spain

    2008-07-10T13:51:22Z

    Carrefour-owned Dia is poised to shake up the convenience store sector in Spain by rapidly expanding its Dia Market fascia.

  • News

    Spar targets emerging markets to beat crunch

    2008-07-10T12:46:11Z

    Symbol group Spar International is attempting to defy the credit crunch with a strong global expansion campaign.

  • News

    Netto sales climb

    2008-07-10T11:01:25Z

    Value retailers continue to pull in the customers, with Netto announcing a 7 per cent sales increase over the year to June 14.

  • News

    Consumer spend to slow to 0.5% next year

    2008-07-10T11:00:47Z

    Consumer spending growth in the UK will slow to just 0.5 per cent next year as households face high energy and food prices and falling property values.

  • News

    Co-op to buy Somerfield for £1.6bn

    2008-07-10T09:59:03Z

    The Co-operative Group is poised to buy Somerfield’s 955 stores in a deal worth 1.6 billion as early as next week, according to reports.

  • News

    Carrefour hypermarket sales slide

    2008-07-10T09:41:06Z

    International retail giant Carrefour is to speed up the pace of change after second quarter sales slipped at its French hypermarkets.

  • News

    Lots of sandwiches and a few spats: M&S AGM sketch

    2008-07-09T17:43:50Z

    They came, they ate his sandwiches and they voted for him.

  • News

    M&S shareholders back Rose

    2008-07-09T16:10:00Z

    Shareholders have showed their support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM. However, 17 per cent of shareholders abstained.

  • News

    Shop price rise for June stays below inflation

    2008-07-09T11:02:00Z

    June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.

  • News

    Sainsbury's tags chickens as theft rises

    2008-07-09T08:39:47Z

    Sainsbury’s is attaching security tags to frozen chickens to combat soaring theft of both value and top-of-the-range birds.

  • News

    Waitrose hiring signals convenience push

    2008-07-09T08:31:31Z

    Waitrose is understood to have hired a head of convenience as it gears up to take on the likes of Sainsbury’s Local and M&S Simply Food.

  • News

    M&S shareholders back Rose

    2008-07-08T11:54:13Z

    Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM.

  • News

    Marks & Spencer pulls out of Taiwan

    2008-07-08T09:45:15Z

    Marks & Spencer is to close all its stores in Taiwan after just 14 months of trading in the country, dealing another blow to the embattled retailer.

  • News

    Morrisons ups ante in price war

    2008-07-08T08:59:10Z

    Morrisons has delivered another blow in the supermarket price wars with the creation of a fresh family meal for 4.

  • News

    PM calls on consumers to curb food waste

    2008-07-07T09:07:00Z

    Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on UK consumers to stop making “unnecessary” food purchases, in an effort to curb almost £1 billion of food wasted each year.

  • News

    Rose faces investor rebellion

    2008-07-07T08:24:28Z

    More than a quarter of Marks & Spencer investors could this week abstain or vote against Sir Stuart Rose’s elevation to executive chairman.