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The Advertising Standards Authority has told Asda that an advert it has produced, claiming many of its products were being sold at lower prices than its competitors, must be removed, and not released again in its present format, because it is ambiguous. Tesco complained to the ASA about the ad saying it could not work [...]

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Supermarket chain Tesco has announced that it will start selling the anti-impotence drug Viagra over the counter and at half the price Boots is currently providing it at. Until Boots started offering Viagra to customers last year, the only way to get hold of the little blue pills was with a prescription or via the [...]

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Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group members, a select group of farmers who supply the grocer with milk, have been told that, as of the beginning of November, they will be receiving an extra 1.28 pence per litre. This works out at just over a penny extra for every pint. Many dairy farmers have been complaining that [...]

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Philip Clarke, the new Tesco boss due to take over from Sir Terry Leahy when he steps down next March, will focus on Asia, according to a recent interview. Mr Clarke currently looks after Tesco’s European and Asian operations and says that international business will continue to take up much of his time when he [...]

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Nadine Coyle, a member of the all-girl pop band Girls Aloud, has announced that she will be releasing her debut album to be sold exclusively through Tesco stores. The record, entitled Insatiable, will hit the shelves on 8 November and has been created on the singer’s own record label. Northern Irish born Coyle has been [...]

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Although they promised to cut down the time shoppers spent waiting to pay for their groceries, new research shows that self service check-outs may actually be adding to the time customers spent at the country’s supermarket tills. Trade publication, The Grocer, conducted research into average waiting times and found that, compared to 2008, when the [...]

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Recently published figures suggest that Britons are paying a lot more for grocery items than they were just three years ago. It is estimated that, since 2007, the price of an egg, or a loaf of bread, has risen by around 18 per cent. The price of tea has gone up by around 30 per [...]

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A Tesco supermarket night manager has been denied bail by Londonderry Magistrates Court after he allegedly stole £36,201 from the store in Limavady. Initially, 41-year-old Michael Thomas Kearns from Brecan Lee, Claudy, claimed that he had been abducted by a group of masked men and forced to rob his place of work. A detective explained [...]

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The country’s number one grocer has been slammed by a campaign group for claiming that all of its bread is freshly made in store. Tesco has had an advertisement banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after the Real Bread Campaign group complained that it was misleading of the supermarket to tell customers that it sold [...]

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Tesco has been given permission by a Scottish court to remove the remains of what are believed to be five bodies from a burial vault at a site earmarked for development in Linwood, Renfrewshire. Tesco discovered the vault under a church hall which was constructed on the site in the 1940s. The bodies are believed [...]

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