All Grocery articles – Page 702
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News
John Lewis sales climb 6%
Department store chain John Lewis piled pressure on its high street rivals by posting a 6.1 per cent sales uplift for the week to January 26.
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Asda beefs up non-food online as Somerfield interest hots up
Asda is to ramp up the volume and variety of general merchandise products that it sells online this summer, as speculation mounts that the grocer could lodge a provisional bid for Somerfield in the next two weeks.
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Carrefour to refocus stores and own-label food brands
Carrefour is expected to focus on a radical overhaul of the branding of stores and its own-label food business in France to deliver a “breakthrough year”.
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Waitrose to test airport tea trolley service
Waitrose wants to launch a tea trolley service in all major UK airports, in an effort to increase sales and lighten the dreary mood at arrival halls.
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Asda to raise online game with non-food
Asda is to massively ramp up the volume and variety of general merchandise products it sells online this summer.
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Opinion
Move over Christmas, roll on St Valentine’s
Our store in St Matthews Quarter, Walsall, opened in June 2007, so we have just completed our first Christmas trading period. I was really pleased with our performance, especially the great effort put in by our new colleagues, who had never experienced an Asda Christmas.
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Tesco’s first department store to be rejected in favour of Waitrose
Tesco’s plans for its first department store are to be turned down in favour of a scheme fronted by rival Waitrose.
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McColl ploughs £19m into new PoS system
Convenience store operator and newsagent Martin McColl is to invest 19 million in a company-wide point-of-sale (PoS) system in the largest IT project it has undertaken to date.
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Morrisons to launch IT recruitment drive
Morrisons is to embark on a large-scale IT recruitment drive, following the signing of a landmark deal with software giant Oracle late last year.
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Tesco no longer to accept cheques
Tesco has become the latest in a long line of retailers to stop accepting cheques at tills.
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Tesco hoax bomber gets six years
A man who tried to extort 1 million from grocery giant Tesco has been jailed for six years.
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Asda eyes £2m energy savings
Asda plans to save 2 million a year by buying all its energy for stores and depots directly from UK power generators.
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Tesco to take Express format to China
Tesco is planning to open its first Tesco Express store in China next month, in Shanghai, taking a slice of the convenience market in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
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Opinion
Life tastes better at Morrisons
Morrisons chief executive Marc Bolland will have toasted the grocer’s sparkling Christmas results this week.
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Analysis
Farewell to cheap food
Food prices are going up – it’s official. But is the rising price of staples here to stay and is it really going to hit grocers’ margins or keep shoppers off the high street? James Thompson finds out
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UK organic food market held back by supply shortage
The growth of the organic food market is being held back by supply problems, as British producers struggle to satisfy soaring demand for home grown products, according to Mintel.
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John Lewis growth continues
Steady growth has continued at John Lewis with sales up 8.3 per cent to 46.2 million in the week to January 19.
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Metro offloads Extra chain in deal to plug debt by €350m
German giant Metro Group has sold its Extra supermarket chain to rival Rewe in the first sign of the group’s restructuring agenda under new management.