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Justin King and Sainsbury’s – Stuff of business legend.

In around five years, when the next generation of school kids are using their iPad that that they get at...

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Asda’s food ‘not good enough’

Asda’s food is not good enough – words from Andy Clarke – Asda’s CEO this week. I don’t think you...

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Morrisons abandoning the shop

Morrisons to abandon the shop

Shopping in Morrisons (was) a wonderful experience, tidy shelves, strong availability and the Market Street concept that panned as too...

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Tesco’s latest bright idea

Tesco’s latest bright idea is to make stores look like warehouses, part of their ongoing focus on must fill lines...

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I for one am proud of Tesco (less so of Sainsbury’s)

There are many studies done of Tesco’s practice of hiking the prices up of products only to put it on...

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Try Something New Today – in your kids lunchbox?

Sainsbury’s current ad campaign focuses on their new offers that started Wednesday 2nd September. As we know, Sainsbury’s utilise “Try...

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Moment of certainty – A certain waste of time

I’ll talk about Justin’s King’s revolution at Sainsbury’s quite a lot in this blog, before he took over it really...

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Sainsbury’s Basics Range

Sainsbury’s latest push to further increase margins (historically lagging behind competitors) is to heavily promote their Basics range. An utterly...

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