Sentences with phrase «of big supermarkets»

Certainly anyone who has ever tried to oppose a planning application by one of the big supermarkets here might have a comment or two.
One can see, for instance, the power of the big supermarkets to exact low prices from their suppliers to the ultimate pricing advantage of the consumer.
Although today is officially marked as the National Chocolate Day in Ghana to promote locally made chocolates (Golden Tree Chocolates), there are no bars of the chocolate in most of the big supermarkets, gift shops and other smaller shops.
Most of the big supermarkets will even offer vegan cheeses, although it is likely to be a case of trial and error until you find one that suits your palate.
Australian National Retailers Association acting chief executive Rob Hadler would not comment on specific retailers, but said ANRA believed the ACCC had sufficient powers to manage the behaviour of the big supermarkets.
And with the anti-sugar backlash hurting sales of its soft drinks, the last thing CCA needs is for 60 per cent of its bottled water products to be elbowed out of a big supermarket retailer.
Jeremy Davies writes: Why are two of our biggest supermarket chains turning gender equality back 40 years in their Christmas adverts this year?

Not exact matches

It is the biggest supplier of fresh and processed meat to Canadian supermarkets via some 70 brands, including the flagship Maple Leaf, Schneiders, Shopsy's and Dempster's names, plus many more, smaller regional brands acquired over 15 years.
All of Britain's big four supermarkets — market leader Tesco, Wal - Mart's Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons — have seen sales and profits hit as they cut prices to stem the flow of shoppers to German discounters Aldi and Lidl.
After the American online outfit bought Whole Foods, now Tencent is investing in Super Species, a so - called hypermarket chain run by Yonghui Superstores, one of China's biggest supermarket chains.
Reports of big M&A deals included U.S. - based Marathon Petroleum Corp's agreement to buy Andeavor and a tie - up between British supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Walmart Inc's ASDA.
Mitch Collett of Goldman Sachs Research explains why e-commerce will be the biggest disruption to food and personal care products since the invention of the supermarket.
LONDON Sainsbury's and Asda, the two British supermarkets planning to merge, had the slowest sales of the «big four» chains in the 12 weeks to April 22, market data showed on Tuesday.
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Sainsbury's and Asda, the UK arm of Walmart, confirmed on Monday they had agreed a $ 18.33 billion merger to create Britain's biggest supermarket group by market share, surpassing current leader Tesco.
Both Aldi and Trader Joe's may be small in terms of the physical sizes of their stores, but they obviously please their customers — and they seem to be proving themselves as big trendsetters in the supermarket business.
Publix CEO Todd Jones made $ 2.48 million in total compensation in his first full year as the head of Florida's biggest supermarket chain, a 28 percent increase over the year before.
Reports of big M&A deals included U.S. - based Marathon Petroleum Corp's (MPC.N) agreement to buy Andeavor (ANDV.N) and a tie - up between British supermarket chains Sainsbury's (SBRY.L) and Walmart Inc's (WMT.N) ASDA.
The markets there where full of really fresh fruits and vegetables so big compared to the small ones we have here in the supermarkets.
It's an amazingly inexpensive meal too, all the ingredients are available at any supermarket and it's the easiest thing to make for a big group of friends and family!
I am already a big lover of your app, it's really well organized and helps me so much when I am in the supermarket and I just have a quick look and know what to buy.
I have seen a few in supermarkets but they always come in small packages and I just wandered if there is any place I can buy a big bundle of them that are good quality?
Johanneson took over the family business in the early 1970s, back when the biggest innovation was 24 - hour stores and shoppers still purchased 85 percent of their groceries from supermarkets.
One of the great things about the internet is being able to discover new products, brands etc without having the big supermarkets gatekeeping.
In Australia, I remember seeing big bins of fresh ginger in the supermarket (I always try to go to a supermarket in a foreign country — it's one of my favorite things to do.)
Plus, lets be honest, how cool to have several choices of vegan AND gluten - free frozen pizza at the big mass - market supermarket?
For so long the dodgy, mass produced versions of legume salads that lurk in the corners of supermarket delis, constituted the sum total of my legume - salading experience and it put me off big time.
For example, Perthshire butcher Simon Howie chose St Andrew's Day to announce that the big four UK supermarket chains will stock the world's first widely - available gluten free haggis ahead of Burns Night.
The focus and dedication Peirone Produce shows to the supermarket segment of the marketplace is one of the company's biggest strengths, but it is far from the only advantage it brings to the table.
The big supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles wield huge power, and one former food CEO is relieved to be out of the firing line.
Mr Clarke has wrestled with the big supermarket chains such as Tesco and Sainsbury in the United Kingdom earlier in his career, when he was running Premier Foods with a portfolio of products including Bisto gravy, Mr Kipling cakes and Sharwood's Asian flavours.
The polyunsaturated oils were not a big part of the diet of previous generations, so how has the health of Americans changed now that polyunsaturated oils are for the most part all one finds on supermarket shelves across the US?
Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 157) Le Grand Marche > r RETAIL Island Leader Le Grand Marche is the biggest supermarket chain on St. Maarten because of its selection and by catering to its customers.
It was largely driven by the Chinese entrepreneurs buying up large volumes of vitamins from Australian supermarkets and big box outlets such as Chemist Warehouse and then selling them online on e-commerce sites in China.
Woolworths is facing claims by Harris Farm Markets it is acting anti-competitively by enforcing a first right of refusal over a retail lease in Sydney's Double Bay, in a legal dispute that could mark the start of latest challenge to big supermarket power since Woolworths and Coles were challenged by the regulator on how they deal with suppliers.
But chief executive Darren De Bortoli said the biggest threat to his business - as well as other winemakers - was not the rising dollar, which was making exports uncompetitive, nor the power of the two leading supermarket chains, but the «rorting» of the WET tax rebate by small uneconomic growers who are flooding the market with cheap loss - making wine.
When more than a third of your business is at risk if Australia's biggest supermarket chain takes you off the shelf you can understand why a supplier is reluctant to speak out against Woolworths.
Alphinity Investment Management portfolio manager Bruce Smith said the uncertain outlook for BIG W and lack of leverage in supermarkets were weighing on the shares.
Meanwhile, one of the country's biggest supermarket chains moved to fend off criticism with its own (poorly - received) salve for the dairy industry.
It was cheaper to buy a big bunch of mint from the Asian veggie stall than a couple of meagre stalks from the supermarket so I knew I would have quite a bit leftover yesterday from my green pizza recipe.
But he no longer has to confront the rise of supermarket power and the replacement of traditional brands in an expansion of private - label brands controlled by the big two.
If you have access to a freezer, you can make up several portions of a curry, chilli or casserole with a big bag of supermarket «basics» vegetables or potatoes - and freeze them.
O'Brien runs Simplot Australia, a big supplier to supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths, which produces a host of food products including Birds Eye, Edgell, Leggo's and Lean Cuisine along with canned fish brands John West and I&J frozen seafood products.
The receiver of Australian food brand Rosella says supply arrangements with Coles, as well as Woolworths supermarkets, played a big role in the company's collapse two years ago.
The decline in Woolworths dragged the broader sharemarket lower, as the nation's biggest supermarket chain also missed an opportunity to beat rival Coles for the first time in five years in terms of quarterly sales growth in their food and liquor arms.
Coles» biggest beef supplier Australian Country Choice is suing the supermarket giant alleging breaches of a contract that gave exclusive rights to the cattle producer to export about $ 150 million worth of beef every year.
Soft drinks maker Coca - Cola Amatil is about to suffer another big hit at the hands of supermarket giant Woolworths.
Woolworths will slip some of its own home brands in the space created by the removal of the CCA products — bottled water has brilliant margins and brand loyalty is low, so the cheapest product usually wins out, particularly in the bigger pack sizes sold in the supermarket.
The bottler has been working for more than eight months with The Coca Cola Co, big supermarket chains, fast food and convenience store chains and small retailers to ensure that sales of Coke Life meet or beat ambitious expectations.
Maggie Beer Products chairman Trevor O'Hoy said on Tuesday the review found the business was on a solid footing but needed to rev up growth beyond the core markets of pate, pastes and premium ice - cream which were in «mature» segments, where there was rising pressure for promotional spending from big supermarket chains stocking the products.
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