All Grocery articles – Page 699
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Tesco set to double its in-store opticians
Tesco is to more than double its number of in-store opticians over the next 12 months.
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Opinion
Inquiry rulings are a fair deal
Retailers have little to fear from the Competition Commission’s latest recommendations
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Thorntons: The City View
The City gave Thorntons a thumbs-up after the chocolatier posted a tasty increase in first-half profits and sales.
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Competition probe and Asda success help quoted grocers
Food retailers staged a comeback after they emerged largely unscathed from the Competition Commission’s investigation into the grocery market. Good fourth-quarter figures from Asda helped, confirming that food retailers as a group have been doing well.
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Grocers go all out for Fairtrade Fortnight
The UK’s biggest grocers are touting their Fairtrade credentials ahead of the start of Fairtrade Fortnight next week.
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Competition test will allow Asda to double store openings
Asda expects to benefit from the Competition Commission’s proposed “competition test” for new supermarket openings, because it will mean it is able to double the number of shops it opens a year.
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Tesco calls for 'responsible pricing’ on alcohol
Tesco will call on the Prime Minister today to create new laws to ban the sale of cut-price alcohol.
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Whole Foods boss happy with London store’s performance
Whole Foods Market chairman and chief executive John Mackey has mounted a robust defence of the performance of its debut UK store in London.
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Sainsbury’s plans to step up its at-source security tagging
Sainsbury’s is hoping to extend its source-tagging programme after completing the roll-out of security technology to all its supermarkets.
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Tesco to expand its use of electronic shelf-edge labels
Tesco is to extend its use of electronic shelf-edge labelling (ESL) using a system from Swedish vendor Pricer.
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Asda to invest £400m in expansion
Asda will open about 20 stores over the next year and push its online operation as part of a 400 million expansion programme.
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Thorntons profits and sales jump 14%
Thorntons has delivered a 14 per cent increase in pre-tax profits and total sales for the 28 weeks to January 12.
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Tesco defends its £2 chickens
Tesco has defended its decision to sell whole chickens for less than 2, vowing that it is the grocer itself that shoulders the price cut.
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Asda like-for-likes climb
The UK’s second largest grocer Asda delivered mid-single-digit like-for-like sales growth in 2007.
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Tesco to ramp up sales of local products
Tesco plans to sell 400 million of local products in UK stores this year.
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Morrisons calls for new OFT team over price-fixing dispute
Morrisons is demanding that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) replace its team that is investigating the alleged milk price fixing in the grocery sector.
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Supermarkets accused of bullying suppliers
The European Parliament declared yesterday that big European supermarket chains may be abusing their market position to drive down prices paid to suppliers.
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Government should get a grip on responsible message
The Government will not be able to its achieve targets on climate change, health and fair trade without tackling its often confusing relationships with supermarkets, according to a report by the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC).
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Tesco cuts wine bottles' weight in eco drive
By Katie Daubney Supermarket group Tesco is to reduce the weight of wine bottles to cut their environmental impact. By 2010 the grocer aims to save 72,000 tonnes of glass by cut the weight of bottles by 25 per cent. Tesco category technical manager for beers wines and spirits Andy ...
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Wal-Mart backs Sony in DVD battle
Wal-Mart has said it will no longer stock Toshiba’s HD-DVD discs and players in favour of Sony-backed rival Blu-ray.