Earlier this year the company submitted plans to increase the size of its North Road store by almost one-third which would create an extra 155 parking spaces, a larger warehouse, new staff facilities, an extended customer cafe and a new filling station.
It is understood the expansion could create as many as 30 new jobs.
A Morrisons spokesperson said: “The planned extension will enable us to revamp the existing store and deliver an even better range of fresh food for customers in Berwick. We’re still looking into the detail and intend to make a formal announcement shortly.”
Source: www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk
Morrisons UK: Consumer Profile - new company profile report - Transworld News
Morrisons UK: Consumer Profile - new company profile report
London 7/26/2012 11:39 AM GMT (TransWorldNews)
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Why was the report written?
While shopper and store audit data provide the picture of what's happening in store, this report focuses on providing data on the final consumers of products from Morrisons. Therefore, this report provides a different view from both loyalty card and shopper data in order to help complete a total understanding of the consumer base and improve decision making.
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
Understanding the consumer audience is key and increasingly this means not just understanding the shoppers in store, but also who they are purchasing for. This broader view of who their customers are allows retailers to make more informed strategic decisions.
What are the key drivers behind recent market changes?
The effects of the global recession and the following recovery have led consumers to closely examine their choice of retailer and products purchased. While the effects have varied country by country, no retailer has been left totally untouched and this has created a need for retailers to understand who their end-consumer audience is.
What makes this report unique and essential to read?
The report provides valuable, hard to obtain, consumer-survey based, data on Morrisons in the UK, showing who its end-customers are and how well the retailer is performing overall (as measured by category share). By focusing on end-consumers and not in-store shoppers, the report provides a different perspective compared to other types of data, helping retailers to identify which consumer groups they want to compete for in the future.
Key Features and Benefits
The report profiles Morrisons' end-consumers and covers over 25 consumer groups of both Main and Occasional users (determined by the share of their goods coming from this retailer).
Market shares by category show how Morrisons is performing in product categories across the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
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Motorbikes set to race on Kirkcaldy beach - fifetoday.co.uk
The sands between the harbour and the basin car park at the west end will play host to dozens of motorbikes, old and new, for a celebration of 90 years of the Kirkcaldy and District Motor Club on Saturday, August 11.
The event came about following discussions between Hugh Ward, the club’s long-serving president, and Fife Council.
He said: I told them that one of the earliest events the club held was the sand racing along the beach at the Prom during the 1930s.
“The Council offered us the use of the Basin car park, and we looked into the tide times and came up with the best date.”
The sand racing events, which will take place from around 3.00 p.m. will be supplemented by demonstration of MiniMoto in the car park from around noon, as well as trial bike obstacle courses and stalls selling bike equipment.
The races will be divided into three categories – one for modern bikes; a second for classic bikes from the 1950s and 60s and another for speedway or grass track bikes.
“We have restricted it to a total of 36 bikes this time to see how things work, but we are expecting a lot more enthusiasts along on the day to watch the event, and we hope it will bring lots of other people to the town to see what it’s all about,” explained Hugh (63).
“As soon as the tide goes out – around 3 o’clock – we will have to get in quickly and set up the track which will run in an anti-clockwise direction in an oval from the middle of the sands, opposite Lidl’s, and will be about half a mile round.
“We are all looking forward to it, and I can still remember being thehere at the last sand race on the beach in 1972 when I was helping out. It was very exciting and used to attract large crowds.
“If it proves a success then there’s no reason why is can’t become an annual event in Kirkcaldy.”
Source: www.fifetoday.co.uk
How to have a dirt-cheap BBQ - money.aol.co.uk
And ask your generous guests to kindly donate desserts and extra drinks as required!
By comparing prices online at five leading supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Watirose and Ocado – using mysupermarket.com, my shopping list is cheapest at Tesco where it comes in at a grand total of £28.84 or £3.61 per person.
However, apart from the tomato ketchup and beer I've not gone for the value range for most of the products. You can make even bigger savings by doing this. Swapping my Tesco quarter pound beef burgers for ordinary beef burgers would not only save me 98p, but give me two extra burgers, as this product comes in packs of 10.
Replacing my branded soft drinks with the Tesco versions would save me a further £1. And swapping my Tesco Lincolnshire sausages for Tesco pork sausages would save me an extra 10p.
This leaves me with a total bill of £26.76 or £3.35 per head.
You could also save even more money by making the burgers from scratch.
And if I had vegetarian guests coming I'd go for a six-pack of Tesco's Lincolnshire-style veggie sausages for £1.75. Although it's worth pointing out that, at the moment, you can pick up Linda McCartney's version for £1 at Sainsbury's.
Of course, you may be able to find these items even cheaper at deep-discount supermarkets such as Lidl or Aldi. If you know of any good BBQ food deals at these supermarkets, please share them with other lovemoney.com readers using the comments box below.
Source: money.aol.co.uk
Scottish dairy farmers rally over milk price cuts - FarmersWeekly
Dairy farmers in Scotland are taking part in a further day of protests for fairer milk prices today (Thursday 26 July).
Protests are being staged outside milk processing plants and distribution centres and smaller discount retailers are also being targeted.
Farmers are gathering outside Farmfoods and Iceland stores in Inverurie, Peterhead and Forfar to speak to consumers.
Shoppers are being handed leaflets explaining the farmgate price does not cover production costs and that supermarkets are "creaming off a large percentage of the final price".
They are being asked to fill in forms with their comments supporting farmers and these forms will be given to the managers at the end of the day.
The activity follows up dairy farmers action in Dumfries and Inverness where dairy farmers met with shoppers outside Asda, Morrisons, Iceland, Farmfoods and Lidl stores.
Most of the big supermarkets, including Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and the Co-operative, have bowed to pressure and agreed to raise prices following a number of protests by dairy farmers. However, Iceland and Farmfoods have not changed their prices.
NFU Scotland president Nigel Miller said: "We want to talk to shoppers at Iceland and Farmfoods stores and urge them to put pressure on their retailer to play fair on milk prices.
"At the same time, we will engage with milk processors and ask them to properly reward those hard-working producers who are keeping their processing lines filled with milk."
The union and other dairy farming organisations have called for all recent price cuts and those planned for August 1 to be reversed.
NFU Scotland milk committee chairman Gary Mitchell said the union remained committed to tackling the short-term crisis triggered by the "unprecedented level of damaging pressure on farmgate milk prices.
But in the long-term, a robust code of conduct that delivers much-needed balance to the contractual arrangements between farmers and their milk buyers was required, he added.
"We want to talk to shoppers at Iceland and Farmfoods stores and urge them to put pressure on their retailer to play fair on milk prices."
Nigel Miller, NFU Scotland
"Longer-term, we must strengthen the hand of farmers to ensure that the positive work of the past few weeks is not undone and stronger producer," he said.
Meanwhile, around 200 dairy farmers are gearing up for a protest at Robert Wiseman Dairies, in East Kilbride, Glasgow scheduled from 8pm onwards tonight (Thursday).
Dairy farmer John Cumming, from Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway, invited farmers to bring their tractors and trailers to the protest.
"We need a milk price that allows farmers to go forward, invest, but even to survive," said Mr Cumming.
"The public understands this. The supermarkets are just greedy. They want all the profit but farmers are just going out of business and if we are not careful, all the milk in Britain will be imported very shortly.
"Farmers cannot sustain this unacceptable situation any longer."
See our dedicated page on the milk price cuts
Source: www.fwi.co.uk
Dairy Crest puts off milk price cut - The Guardian
The group is postponing the 1.65p a litre reduction due from August 1 for two months to hold talks with farmers over the way forward. It follows a week of blockades by farmers, who are calling for all price cuts to be reversed amid warnings the plans will force many out of business.
Dairy Crest is the first milk producer to withdraw its price cut and all eyes will now be on other dairy processors to see if they follow suit.
Farmers For Action (FFA) called off its Dairy Crest protests as a result of the announcement, including a 24-hour blockade of the firm's processing facility at Foston, Derbyshire. It said in a statement on its website: "All energy will now be concentrated on the other companies and these protests continue."
Producers have repeatedly slashed the price they pay farmers for milk this year after seeing the value of cream plummet.
Dairy Crest, which supplies around 15% of British milk production, already reduced its milk price by 2p a litre in May. Further cuts would see farmers paid just under 25p a litre for milk - less than the 30p a litre it costs to produce milk, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Dairy Crest said it hopes the two-month delay will allow it to "find a long term solution for the dairy sector".
Morrisons and Lidl - two of Dairy Crest's major retail customers - have agreed to pay more per litre to support farmers but Dairy Crest said the additional revenue from this would not be enough to completely reverse the planned cut.
It also supplies the so-called middle-ground market, such as small retailers, which is already struggling under intense competition and would be more difficult to secure price hikes with.
"In the short term, while discussions with other customers are ongoing, Dairy Crest will make up any shortfall itself," it added.
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Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Exmouth police appeal to public - Exeter Express-Echo
POLICE in Exmouth are appealing for witnesses to help them trace the thug who attacked an adult with learning difficulties.
The unprovoked attack occurred at6.30pm on Friday, July 20, near to the taxi rank by Lidl's supermarket at top of Dinan Way. The male victim, described as "vulnerable" by officers, was punched to the neck.
The offender is white, in his late teens/early 20s, with blonde hair. He was wearing a brown jacket and riding a mountain bike. After attacking the man he cycled off down the hill.
Call PCSO Chris Ball on 101 with reference KE/12/1689.
Source: www.thisisexeter.co.uk
3-month-old baby trapped in locked car (From The Bolton News) - The Bolton News
3-month-old baby trapped in locked car
9:36am Thursday 26th July 2012 in Local
FIREFIGHTERS were called to free a baby girl who had been accidentally locked in a car.
A woman from Kearsley in her 20s parked her Vauxhall Corsa near the Lidl superstore in Crompton Way, Bolton, at 12.30pm yesterday and was horrified to find the doors locked while her keys were on the driver’s seat.
She alerted a fire crew based a mile away in Crompton Way and firefighters partially prised open the door and use a stick and hook to fish the keys through the gap and out of the car.
The baby was stuck for 10 minutes.
A fire service spokesman said: “She was about three months old and she was quiet and happy throughout the whole thing, though her mum was understandably quite anxious.
“We were only too happy to help and it is good that there was a happy ending, and with no damage to the car either.”
Source: www.theboltonnews.co.uk
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