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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Supermarket bosses won't be shocked to hear that sales of organic goods have plunged over the past year--but some may be surprised that they are getting the blame. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine you are a tomato grower. Imagine you have spent months planting and nurturing a crop of premium-quality fruit to fulfil an order placed by a supermarket. Now [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The growing share of the OTC market held by the supermarkets is continuing to give the likes of Boots, Lloyds Pharmacy and smaller independents a headache. According to [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Britons seem to find something comforting about having kitchen cupboards bulging with long-life canned goods, as if the presence of them can help fend off hardship. Fear generated [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Off-licences are in the fight of their lives to avoid a 'long, lingering death,' one booze retail boss admitted frankly to The Grocer last week. His pessimism is [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thank heavens for Activia. If it weren't for the phenomenal performance of the Danone yoghurt, volume and value sales in functional food and drink would have slumped last [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The bogof, or buy-one-get-one-free, was once a much-loved piece of promotional jargon, even transferring into popular usage. Somehow two-for-the-price-of-one never had the same satisfactorily expletive impact. A tftpoo [...]

After more than three years of waiting, Whole Foods Market is almost with us. The world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, according to the company, is due to [...]

You might have expected life to quieten down a bit for independent retailers in the aftermath of the frenzied consolidation of the sector in 2004. But this year's annual survey [...]

They may not look much compared with their slick counterparts in the UK. But Russian supermarket chains such as Pyaterochka and Perekriostok could be the future of European retail. Most [...]

Here's a quick question for you. What do Hogwarts Castle, Thunderbirds' Tracy Island, Pokemon, Furbies and Buzz Lightyear have in common? The answer is they have all topped the Christmas [...]

Britain's high street clothing retailers must be feeling hard pressed as the grocers make incursions into their territory Asda's George label has become a 1bn [pounds sterling] brand, while Tesco's [...]

Asda PLC, Morrisions and Tesco PLC are responding to the needs of UK consumers, with the introduction of a better quality range of foods and home delivery services. Turnover in the major supermarket chains has increased by an average of almost 6%. Tesco have increased their share of the grocery market for Q2 1998 to 23.4%, along with Asda which has a 14.1% share. J. Sainsbury PLC share of the market fell from 20% in Q1, to 19.6% in Q2. Safeway's market share had fallen since 1996 but it increased in Q2 1998 to 10.5%. Grocery prices increased by 2.1% in Q2 1998., It's time both for summer holidays and check on how the multiples are doing so far this year. Food retailing in Britain is in a constant change. The Somerfield merger [...]

Supermarkets have seen their share of fresh fruit and vegetable sales rise from 72% to 78% since 1996, according to a report from Keynote. The UK Food Market: 2001 shows [...]

Supermarkets will control more than 60% of the health and beauty products market by 2006, according to a report from retail analyst Verdict. The multiple grocers have been steadily encroaching [...]

Tesco has overtaken Intermarche, Metro and Edeka to assume the number two slot in the European grocery retailing superleague, according to a new report from market researcher Retail Intelligence. Based [...]

* Market grows on the back of olive oil * Standard cooking oil declines * Infusions spark enthusiasm * Fixtures need simplification Olive oil is showing dynamic growth in the [...]

Wal-Mart will overtake Kroger and Albertsons to become the top US grocer by 2003, according to an IGD report. Although Wal-Mart easily leads the field in total retail sales with [...]

The retail sales value for regular frequency magazines on sale during February is estimated to be 129m [pounds sterling], according to Seymour's Monthly Monitor report. While this represents a drop [...]

Asda is reinforcing its position in the UK superstore league, managing director Paul Mason told international colleagues here on Thursday. In a confidential internal briefing prior to Wal-Mart's annual shareholders' [...]

Marks and Spencer's food business is becoming more and more important for the company -- but for the all the wrong reasons. This honest analysis came from M&S boss Luc [...]

`We are securing our competitive position but we are not looking to take the lead' Sainsbury claims it has leapfrogged over Asda, Iceland and Waitrose to become the UK's number [...]

The supermarket groups continue to expand their share of the magazines market. The latest Monthly Monitor from Seymour Marketing shows that between September and November, Tesco gained 0.2% of the [...]

From fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables to exotic specialties and healthy beverages, Western USA offers importers an abundant supply of fine foods. But by far the biggest growth area is [...]

* Tesco, of course, was number one. But it wasn't a bad end of year for the multiples fighting to recover. The UK grocery sector could be excused for feeling [...]

Tesco has emerged as the multiple with the biggest share of the magazines market from July to September. According to Seymour's December Monitor, Tesco had a market share of 7.4%, [...]

Supermarkets' share of fresh produce sales rose over the past year from 80.8% to 82.6% according to the Fresh Produce Consortium's annual review. The share of all other retail sectors, [...]

Safeway shares climbed this week after it announced like for like sales for the second quarter up 5.1%, far in excess of the industry average. And it followed that up [...]

US style supercentres could account for up to 4.9% of the total grocery market by the year 2005, according to an IGD report out this week. The report predicts that [...]

The big supermarket chains have almost doubled their share of the UK's 3b.5n [pounds sterling] childrenswear market in the past five years, and now account for 12% of all sales, [...]

* Retailers wait another Titanic * Asda pushes for lower music prices * Explosion in DVD market * Video and audio sales rocket Buzz Lightyear's determined efforts to get Woody [...]

Tesco has become embroiled in bizarre rows with two rivals. The first spat is with Iceland, which has kicked up a big fuss over instore stickers in Tesco that proclaim [...]

Asda's market share figures suffered a 'disappointing' drop last month, according to the latest Taylor Nelson Sofres figures. Although its year on year market share showed a 1% rise, the [...]

Sainsbury's has been named the UK's leading organics retailer with 30% of the market, said Taylor Nelson Sofres. A survey of 10,000 consumers found sales of organic foods at Sainsbury [...]

Are the multiples approaching saturation point? Multiples may be running out of room for retail meat market share growth, having accounted for 70.3% of household purchases last year against 58% [...]

Regional pricing will be less of an issue and consumer choice will be more of a concern to the Competition Commission as it continues its probe into supermarket profitability, says [...]

The row between Sainsbury and Asda over the leaking of market share figures to a Sunday newspaper was refusing to die down this week. Sainsbury's marketing director Kevin McCarten said [...]

On the face of it, 2009 has been a good year for butters and spreads, with several brands seeing spectacular sales increases and the category overall showing value and volume [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The volume of announcements from Waitrose HQ in the past few months has left few in doubt about just how ambitious managing director Mark Price's plans are. Forget [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If Carlsberg did supermarkets, this year's model would probably look something like this. Shoppers would be greeted by a friendly assistant with a warm, Bradford lilt. She'd direct [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was the one they all wanted to win. Representatives from the UK's leading supermarkets had been wheeled into the BBC TV studios and had already sat through [...]

It's the end of Q1 for Tesco's Fresh + Easy venture, and with North California the next stop in the rollout, it's 50 stores and counting. But a whispering campaign [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] People say that retailing is a pretty straightforward business,' says Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood. 'But the truth is, this is not a simple business anymore.' He should [...]

With faster delivery times, fewer carrier bags and most delivering almost the full complement of 33 items, the standard of online grocery retailing has improved to such a degree it [...]

While the physical music market has been through the wringer in the past year, the video category fared pretty well. The category is growing at 3% representing sales of almost [...]

The supermarkets are really starting to eat into the high street retailers' share of the electrical appliances market. And it's only going to get worse for the likes of Dixons [...]

Supermarkets are in a good position to take a bigger chunk of the consumer electronics market. At present the market is worth 8.1bn [pounds sterling], showing year-on-year growth of 14.7% [...]

Christmas drinks promotions kicked off early last year as supermarkets vied to gain the upper hand in the crucial early trading weeks. ACNielsen figures released exclusively to The Grocer reveal [...]

Tesco is calling for the two-market definition of grocery retailing to be ditched in favour of a single market view, in a move that could leave it breaking ranks with [...]

Russia remains the red hot ticket in Central and Eastern Europe--but cumbersome bureaucracy and endemic corruption make it far from an easy play for foreign retailers and suppliers, according to [...]