25 May 2012
| by Sara Kimberley
-based Co-op's 14 roster agencies were based in the North-West. The Co-op's other interests, aside from food ...
23 May 2012
| by Matt Barnett
from day one it s known a lot more about our shopper habits than the grocery guys.
It knows where ...
, it still has some way to go, but compared to the grocery retailers, it is able to paint a much clearer ...
22 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
The retailer's like-for-like sales in the UK increased by 0.3% for the year ending 31 March after 2.1% growth in food and a 1.8% dip in general merchandise.
Overall revenues were up 2% to 9.9bn but profits declined.
Profits before tax were down to 658.0m, compared to 780.6m in the previous ...
14 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
of existing prices lowered. Packaging will be largely transparent to show off the food with the remaining ...
role as a premium food retailer with a growth in shoppers using Simply Foods as their main grocer ...
, excellence and inspiration in products.
Given their shopper base and food hall dynamics I am sure M S can ...
14 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
The month-long Clubcard Exchange promotion launches today (14 May) and will allow customers to change 5 of Clubcard vouchers into a 10 exchange token, which can be spent on a range of non-grocery products including clothes, furniture, toys and electrical goods. A television and radio campaign ...
11 May 2012
| by Matt Chapman
,' he says.
Food retailing of the future
Hobnobbing with Google execs seems appropriate given how ...
of food retailing,' argues Gissing.
His pronouncement is backed by the latest figures from the Institute of Grocery Distribution, which show that the online market was worth 5.9bn in 2011 ...
11 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Brands including Kia, HSBC, Iceland, Matalan, L'Oreal, Sony, Everything Everywhere, Spotify, B Q, Boots, Diageo, Sainsbury's, Premier Foods, Nokia and McDonald s took part in the survey, which gathered 333 responses. A total of 4,300 clients on FindGood's database of companies that use marketing ...
10 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
fashion and food."
With a year to go before its opening, the shopping complex already has 60% of units ...
09 May 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
's' range with 3,700 products new or revamped. Non-food is growing faster than food while increasing ...
is beginning to scale back its non-food operations in-store. King said: "We don't agree that non-food or big stores have had their day, but we believe we have never made the mistake of putting non-food first ...
04 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
never knowingly undersold -style pledge to match the price of branded groceries of market-leading Tesco ...