All Grocery articles – Page 462
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News
Retail sales set to worsen
Flat August sales were broadly in line with retailers’ expectations but the next three months are expected to worsen as sentiment deteriorates, the CBI said.
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News
Sainsbury's inks deal with digital video service
Sainsbury’s has signed a deal with Rovi Corporation to provide a new digital video service for its microsite Sainsbury’s Entertainment.
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Co-op profits tumble 16% in 'fiercely competitive food market'
The Co-operative Food’s underlying profit slumped 16% to £119m in the six months to June 30 amid “fierce” competition in the food sector and the “unrelenting consumer downturn”.
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Analysis
Retail Week on the Road: Ireland
This week’s final instalment of our On the Road series visits Cork, where food specialist Musgrave is in expansion mode, before heading to Tallaght to visit department store chain Heatons, and Dublin’s upscale department stores Arnotts and Brown Thomas.
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Opinion
Comment: A decade of change and more to come
Our firm’s recent 10th anniversary has caused us to reflect on what has happened in the retail sector over the past decade – an extraordinary period of change and corporate activity – and to wonder what might happen in the next 10 years.
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News
Carrefour opens Click & Drive in Indonesia
Carrefour has opened its first drive-in service in Indonesia at the flagship Lebak Bulus hypermarket, south of Jakarta.The initiative, named Click & Drive, enables customers to shop online, choose a time slot and then pick up their goods at a dedicated parking location.Unlike its European equivalents, the drive-in service does ...
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Tesco introduces 'traffic light' food labelling system
Tesco has changed its stance to introduce the ‘traffic light’ colour coding system on food packaging after previously shunning the system.
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Gallery
In pictures: Tesco-backed coffee shop opens
The first Harris+Hoole cafe, the new coffee shop chain backed by Tesco, opened in Amersham this week.
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News
Waitrose to launch new apprenticeship scheme
Waitrose is to launch a new year-long apprenticeship scheme next month.
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Lidl “first and fastest” to open on Sundays
Schwarz Group’s Lidl has begun opening on Sundays in anticipation of changed legislation in Denmark.As of last week, all Danish Lidl stores were open on Sundays, the retailer has said, adding that it has been the “first and fastest” to do so.The new laws on store opening hours that will ...
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Costcutter sales edge up as it speeds up Kwiksave roll-out
Sales at Costcutter have edged up in the first six months of the year while it has revised its target for new Kwiksave stores upward.
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Booths kickstarts roll-out of new look stores
Booths in investing £2m in a roll out of its revamped new look stores first trialled at the BBC’s new studios in Salford Quays.
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Tesco faces fines after border agency raid
Tesco has been raided by the UK Border Agency which has discovered the grocer has been employing people for longer hours than their visa allowed.
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Analysis
Analysis: Ocado price war threat
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner has revealed plans to challenge the online grocer’s competitors on prices in the next two to three years - an initiaitive described by some as a price war threat. But the question is, can he make good on his word?
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News
Carlyle Group lines up £50m deal for Graze
American private equity firm Carlyle Group is understood to have registered interest in taking a stake in mail order food company Graze.
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News
Sunday trading plans attacked by Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King
Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King has slammed Government plans to extend Sunday trading hours permanently, telling them it is not the “magic answer” to solving the UK’s economic problems.
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News
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner plots price war
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner has revealed plans to accelerate growth by challenging its rival grocers to a price battle through price promotions over the next year.
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Opinion
Comment: No place for class divides today
Imagine getting an email from the bank saying that, as you’ve only got £50 in your account, it’s not worth showing you its full range of services. Or a train company deciding that, because you paid the lowest fare, it won’t tell you what’s in the dining car.
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News
Olympics boosts John Lewis sales 14.9%
Department store John Lewis sales surged 14.9% to £60.8m last week as Olympic fever once again boosted sales.
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Analysis
Analysis: Co-op’s battle continues as new era dawns
With its boss stepping down amid challenging market conditions and falling sales, can the Co-op reverse its decline and continue to compete against the big four?