Prices & promotions news and analysis – Page 9
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NewsAsda targets Home Bargains with new price match campaign
The Home Bargain Price Match includes more than 100 products, most of them non-food, including branded items such as Sure deodoran
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Analysis & Features
Are Asda and Morrisons’ price cuts enough to win back shoppers?
Asda and Morrisons have both announced major pricing offensives. But will it be enough to win shoppers – and how are they funding it?
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Sainsbury’s focusing on value as customers ‘watch every penny’ amid rampant inflation
Sainsbury’s warned profitability would fall back this coming year amid rising food and fuel costs and growing inflation
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Rapid grocer Jiffy price-matching Tesco.com on 150 products
Price-matched items will be branded and sit across all categories. Matching will be done weekly
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Defra to lift mandatory housing measures for poultry as bird flu threat decreases
However, producers have warned they remain in a ‘bleak’ position due to low returns and soaring costs
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Waitrose pushes value Essential range with major Piccadilly Circus campaign
The campaign is running from 25 April to 1 May and is expected to reach an audience of over a million people over the course of the week
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Price wars as new owners of Asda and Morrisons throw millions at cuts
Asda also announced 120,000 hourly paid shop floor colleagues would see their pay increase to £10.10 per hour from July
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Fears over food and CO2 shortages as fertiliser plant sees demand crash
Gas prices have gone up even further since the conflict began, leading to fertiliser costs quadrupling
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HFSS promotions clampdown won’t stop most shoppers buying them, data shows
Almost a third of c-store shoppers said they didn’t feel the restrictions would help fight unhealthy eating
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Iceland slashes online price of fresh and frozen veg to 1p for Easter
All frozen and fresh veg that would normally cost £1 or under, such as a kilo of onions, will instead be 1p from 11 April until midnight on 14 April
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M&S Food invests in Remarksable value range amid soaring living costs
The retailer first launched Remarksable 2019, and ‘now is the right time to go further’, says COO and Food MD Stuart Machin
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Food charity slammed for highlighting meat promotions
Eating Better has claimed supermarkets are ‘bombarding’ shoppers with cheap meat
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Egg producers say ‘tidal wave’ of cost hikes could leave supermarket shelves empty
Hundreds of producers face bankruptcy as the Ukraine war pushes feed prices through the roof
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Arla boss calls for greater financial support for dairy farmers
Struggling dairy farmers need retailers to put “an arm around them” says Ash Amirahmadi, or they could look to sell their products elsewhere
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2 Sisters warns of ‘hyper-inflation’ with input costs already up 50%
The poultry giant is warning war between Ukraine and Russia will drive food prices up even further over the coming weeks
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Morrisons gives out fuel vouchers amid soaring prices at the pumps
From today until Sunday 27 February customers spending £40 will get a voucher worth 7p off a litre of fuel
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HFSS clampdown conference to help navigate government’s radical health and obesity legislation programme
The Grocer’s HFSS clampdown conference will takes place on Tuesday 15 March at America Square, City of London
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Analysis & Features
Is Jack Monroe right about food inflation hitting the poorest hardest?
Jack Monroe sparked a media storm last week by showing it is budget items facing some of the biggest price hikes. Is she right?
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Coffee prices surging in the supermarkets as inflation takes hold
Exclusive data reveals that a mass of branded and private-label coffee products have been subject to price hikes in the mults since the new year
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Rising costs push Nisa into charging retailers for fuel
The Grocer has seen a communication from the retail group sent to its retailers this month
