05 Feb 2008
| by Jemima Bokaie
LONDON - The UK's biggest supermarkets are investing millions in own-label ranges aimed at children.
20 Mar 2006
| by by Sarah Woods
LONDON – The Office of Fair Trading has criticised several online supermarkets for failing to give...about their online pricing.
The OFT said the supermarkets' websites did not make it sufficiently ...
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Supermarkets must now provide up-front information about guide price policies and online shoppers are advised to check prices at the point of delivery against those quoted at the time of ordering.
The supermarkets ...
14 Mar 2008
| by Susan Billinge
LONDON - Supermarkets are now attracting 62% of shoppers to regularly buy non-food items from them...to buy these products in the supermarket, a rise of 12.5 percentage points in five years. This is followed by homewares with 20.4% of shoppers buying from supermarkets, a rise of 10.7 percentage points ...
.6 percentage points. All in all supermarkets control 19.7bn (11%) of the 177bn UK non-food market, putting ...
23 Mar 2005
with their potatoes as the government prepares to open the door for supermarkets to take a bigger slice of the market ...
of the supermarket's attempts to broaden its offer. Over the next few years it plans to increase its range of extra ...
in branded pharmacies with 1400 stores, the danger is that the supermarkets will encroach on its specialist ...
18 Apr 2006
| by by Staff
NEW YORK - Amazon.com has started selling food on its website, offering customers multipacks of Campbell's Soup and Kellogg's cereals.
26 Feb 2008
| by Jemima Bokaie
LONDON - UK supermarkets are shifting away from celebrity-backed marketing strategies toward price.... The supermarket said it will not commission any additional celebrity ads, and will instead build on its weekly ads ...
have been lazy in explaining that we are the lowest-priced supermarket. Tesco has no plans to use ...
26 Sep 2008
| by Darren Davidson
LONDON - Some of the UK's biggest supermarkets and food companies are facing fines running...last summer. The supermarket's examination of its email trail was ordered by the Competition ...
30 Apr 2008
| by Stephen Foster
LONDON - Stephen Foster wonders if anyone can prevent the rise of Tesco and supermarket dominance...Supermarkets under the cosh There ll be the sound of teeth gnashing in Cheshunt (home of Tesco) and other supermarket headquarters this morning as the Competition Commission has stoked the fires already ...
big supermarket is unable to dominate a whole area, sometimes by banking land to stop its rivals ...
07 Jul 2010
| by Joe Thomas
supermarkets in the UK, Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury s all have an online grocery offering, whilst Morrisons ...
26 Jun 2009
| by James Quilter
Consumer champion Which? ordered 29 set items from Asda , Tesco , Ocado , Waitrosedeliver and Sainsbury's . It found both Tesco and Sainsbury's used 14 bags to deliver the products. Both supermarkets have used high profile marketing drives and incentives to persuade consumers to use fewer bags ...