All Grocery articles – Page 703
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Waitrose to open smaller format stores
Waitrose is to launch a major assault on the convenience market and could open at least 100 smaller format stores.
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John Lewis sales robust, as Waitrose shines
Department store chain John Lewis posted a solid set of figures for the week to April 26 and stablemate supermarket chain Waitrose delivered a strong performance.
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Waitrose chief says food prices will fall
Waitrose managing director Mark Price believes that the rise in food prices will be halted by the autumn.
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NewsRose to offload stake in Lane Fox business
Sir Stuart Rose will attempt to diffuse the latest Marks Spencer boardroom fallout by selling his stake in Martha Lane Fox’s karaoke business Lucky Voice.
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Opinion
Creating an environment we can be proud of
This store has been open for nearly 10 months and every annual event brings with it a chance to learn about the trading environment and our colleagues.
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Will planning test happen?
Grocery inquiry: industry exonerated, but angry at proposed competition test and ombudsman
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Carrefour hit by more China protests
Carrefour has been hit by further angry protests in China, as anti-French sentiment grows in the country.
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Majestic extends EPoS to France
Majestic Wine has extended its use of Itim’s EPoS system to its French stores.
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Morrisons to up time-keeping with new IT kit
Morrisons is to upgrade its workforce management system with swipe card data capture terminals.
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Bank launches attack on OFT
Investment bank Cazenove has hit out at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) after the governing body launched a series of allegations into a wide range of price-fixing.
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Grocery inquiry targets planning and code changes
The Competition Commission has said in its final grocery report that the UK’s biggest supermarkets should be subject to a competition test on planning applications and give up restrictive covenants that stop rival building stores close to their sites.
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Grocery bucks consumer spending slowdown
The latest TNS Worldpanel grocery market share figures published today, for the 12 weeks to April 20, showed that the grocery sector achieved 6 per cent sales growth year on year.
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Tesco introduces carbon footprint label
Tesco has launched a carbon footprint label on 20 of its own-brand products to inform consumers about the environmental impact of products.
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Price-fixing probe hits 100 brands
Some of the UK’s best-known consumer brands face a probe over allegations into price-fixing, as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) steps up its wide-ranging investigation into the grocery sector.
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OFT launches fresh probe into supermarket price fixing
The UK’s four biggest grocers are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for allegedly fixing prices of health, beauty and grocery products.
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Opinion
Sainsbury's needs to step up non-food online
Sainsbury’s will launch a new home brand in two stores this weekend as part of its drive to ramp up its non-food offer, as revealed in today’s Retail Week.
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Asda sells mobile handsets for a fiver
Asda is battling for its share of the lucrative mobile phone market with its launch of a pay-as-you-go mobile handset for just 5 today.
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John Lewis sales power ahead
John Lewis department stores registered a 7 per cent sales rise for the week, despite the unhelpful cold weather.
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Supermarkets face cigarette price-fixing inquiry
Retailers, including the big four supermarkets, are facing allegations of price-fixing on cigarettes from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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Sainsbury’s ups non-food with homewares assault
Supermarket chain targets slice of Tesco and Asda’s non-food share with new Tu brand