Retail news from FPJ – Page 221
-
Article
Retailers resolve to cut more prices in 2012
Supermarket price-cutting wars are intensifying as the major multiples attempt to offer unmissable deals to pull in shoppers and avoid a post-Christmas slump.
-
Article
Tesco C&C plans for India 'on hold'
Tesco, the world's third-largest food retailer, has apparently postponed plans to set up wholesale cash-and-carry centres in India.
-
Article
Supermarkets' giant expansion plans revealed
British supermarkets are building or planning 44.4 million square feet of store space, over seven million square feet more than Tesco’s shops currently cover.
-
Article
Morrisons opening hundreds of local stores
Morrisons is planning to open hundreds of convenience stores over the next few years that will offer the same prices found in its supermarkets.
-
Article
Ocado shares plunge as profit estimate revised
Shares in online supermarket Ocado have dropped by as much as 12 per cent since it has announced profits for the financial year are set to be lower than expected.
-
Article
Waitrose tops satisfaction survey for third year
Waitrose has topped the Which? supermarket satisfaction survey for the third year running while Aldi and Lidl have come in second and third.
-
Article
Suppliers feeling Big Price Drop pressure
Tesco’s Big Price Drop is being dubbed the Big Price Flop as suppliers report the retailer has been asking for massive sums to help pay the cost of the promotion.
-
Article
Morrisons to create 7,000 jobs in 2012
Morrisons has announced it will create 7,000 new jobs next year by opening new stores and developing its manufacturing and logistics businesses.
-
Article
Waitrose enjoys sales surge
Waitrose has reported that total sales for the week to 3 December were 5.7 per cent higher than the same time last year.
-
Article
English cranberries go on sale in Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s has become the first supermarket to sell English-grown cranberries in its stores.
-
Article
N Ireland pressing ahead with large retailer tax
Northern Ireland is hoping to impose a tax on large retailers by April despite outcry that it is the “wrong levy at the wrong time”.
-
Article
Co-op takes on X Factor in battle for Xmas no.1
The Co-operative is contending with X Factor, Nirvana and even the Wombles for the Christmas number one spot by releasing a charity single starring group chief executive Peter Marks on drums.
-
Article
Tesco sales drop for fourth quarter in a row
Tesco has blamed a fourth consecutive quarter of falling UK sales on its Price Drop campaign.
-
Article
Apples under threat from price cuts
English apple sector leaders warn that supermarket price cuts are going too deep for too long and risk the future of the industry as sales volumes continue to run well ahead of last year.
-
Article
Supermarket price claims rocked by BBC probe
An investigation by BBC programme Panorama has found that deep price cuts at UK supermarkets do not always represent the value they claim.
-
Article
Yorkshire retailers stung with court fine
Two Yorkshire retailers have been handed down large fines for non-compliance with European Community standards for quality and labelling.
-
Article
Tesco announces Big Christmas Price Drop
Tesco is cutting the cost of 1,000 everyday items in a Big Christmas Price Drop.
-
Article
Glass Glover co-founder dies aged 81
Gerald Glass, the elder of the brothers who headed Glass Glover Group, one of the UK fruit trade's biggest success stories of the 1970s and 1980s, has died aged 81.
-
Article
Morrisons unveils Christmas savings card
Morrisons has said it will deliver £100 million of savings for customers this Christmas as Britain’s grocers step up the battle for cash-strapped shoppers in the run up to the festive period.
-
Article
UK food waste declines
Retailers have claimed a major victory in helping to reduce domestic food waste by 13 per cent.