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Holographic ASDA Staff Made to Feel Welcome by Milton Keynes Shoppers
ASDA, home of the discounted doughnut and misshapen denim, is looking to the future of in-store information, after successfully replacing the mundane in-store tannoy announcement with new, holographic...
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Sainsbury’s Joins eBook Selling Race With the Purchase of a Chunk of Anobii
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s has bought itself a large stake in eBook provider Anobii, taking a 64 per cent share of the business from struggling retailer HMV — for which it paid the nominal fee of £1....
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Tesco May Use Clubcard Data to Remind You to Avoid the Biscuit Aisle
That mass of Clubcard data Tesco has on you and your shopping preferences might soon be put to good use, as the shopping giant is considering a mobile advice system that gives buyers tips on healthy...
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Sainsbury’s Checkout Assistant Rages Against Rude Phone-Using Shoppers
A Sainsbury’s till worker flipped her lid at a customer in London recently, refusing to scan a lady’s shopping until she stopped blabbing away on her mobile phone. The shopper, 26-year-old Jo Clarke,...
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Would You Take the Mrs to Dinner in a Tesco?
Tesco’s about to open its revamped Watford hypermarket, which will see the supermarket giant try to “posh up” its image by adding a restaurant, nail bar, bakery and coffee shop to the space. It wants...
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Tesco Ditching Baked Beans and Ready Meals From its “Finest” Range to Please...
Tesco’s about to re-jig the products it sells under its Finest brand, binning the baked beans and salty meats of uncertain origin and replacing them with more locally-sourced foods of which the...
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Cheapo 28p Aldi Mince Pies Smash the Posh Competition in Ultimate Christmas...
Self-appointed consumer watchdog Which? had a whale of a time recently, buying mince pies from all the major retailers on work expenses and comparing them against each other in a taste test. And the...
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What’s Your Favourite High Street Christmas Sandwich?
We’ve had the mince pie round up, now it’s time to ironically judge the many forms of Christmas sandwiches out there, as the likes of Greggs, Pret and Waitrose compete to add a bit of cheer to the...
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Lidl Replacing Checkout Counter Sweets With Dreaded Oatcakes
Hold out a Double Decker in front of me and a bag of dried fruit, and I’ll eat the chocolate and the hand that was holding it over the withered, mummified berries every time. Lidl, what have you done?...
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Should a Supermarket Skip-Diver Really Find Himself in Trouble With the Law?
Paul May, a 35 year-old freelance web designer is to face magistrates charged under a little-known section of the 1824 Vagrancy Act. Why? Because he took food from an Iceland’s supermarket skip which...
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