All articles by James Thompson – Page 2
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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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MK One sold to Hilco
Icelandic retail investor Baugur has sold its struggling value fashion chain MK One to Hilco, the retail restructuring company.
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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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Will planning test happen?
Grocery inquiry: industry exonerated, but angry at proposed competition test and ombudsman
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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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Liberty changes finance chief
Iconic London department store Liberty has hired a new finance director.
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Dunelm sales rise
Dunelm has posted strong sales for the 43 weeks to April 26 and its chief executive is bullish about the outlook for the value homewares retailer.
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Game profits rocket
Game Group said that current trading has remained strong after it posted soaring full-year profits and sales.
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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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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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UK retail sales plummet in March
The volume of retail sales fell 0.4 per cent in March – the biggest decrease since January 2007, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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OFT apologises to Morrisons over milk price-fixing claims
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has apologised to Morrisons and agreed to pay 100,000 in damages, after the grocer was wrongly accused in a price-fixing inquiry.
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Asda's George drops Coleen McLoughlin
Asda has axed Coleen McLoughlin as the face of its George fashion brand as part of its effort to move upmarket.
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Cash purchases on the up as credit crunch bites
More consumers are using cash to make retail purchases, as the credit crunch forces a scaling back of spending on plastic cards.
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Supplier eyes Baugur's Moss Bros stake
The Moss Bros founding families are hoping that one of its biggest suppliers, the tailor Berwin & Berwin, will buy Baugur’s 29 per cent stake in the retailer to effectively scupper the Icelandic investor’s planned 40 million acquisition of the menswear company, according to The Daily Telegraph .
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Opinion
Co-op is right to bid for Somerfield
The Co-operative Group confirmed the grocery sector’s worst-kept secret this week, when it said it was in talks to acquire 900-store local grocery chain Somerfield.
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Co-op boss aims to land Somerfield by summer
Co-operative Group chief executive Peter Marks has said the retailer hopes to complete its acquisition of rival Somerfield by the summer, as he revealed bumper sales and profits.
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Tesco defies critics as it delivers sales jump
Tesco has defied the vicious slowdown in the market to grab market share in non-food on its way to posting record profits and sales.
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Sainsbury’s to cut plastic bag usage by half
Sainsbury’s has launched an initiative to reduce its plastic bag usage by 50 per cent by April 2009.