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Coop Sweden Tests AR Game For Better Shopping Experience

Coop Sweden has announced that it is conducting a pilot test of an augmented reality (AR) game that aims to make shopping playful and exciting for families. The app has...

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Dethronement in the shops

Compared to the ranking based on total sales, a different picture emerges based on the average revenue of store chains per store. According to the latest data, there has been...

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Coop isn’t slowing down

We asked László Pekó, chairman of the board of directors of CO-OP Hungary Zrt. and the company’s CEO Géza Tóth about the last year and the challenges of 2020. What...

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Coop Sweden Introduces Digital Assistant, Cooper

Coop Sweden has announced that it has introduced a new AI-based digital assistant to its website. The digital assistant, Cooper, aims to address customers’ queries on various topics as well...

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Co-op expands robot delivery roll-out

Co-op is rolling out robot deliveries to further communities across Milton Keynes and surrounding towns and villages in response to increased demand for convenient delivery services during coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions....

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The Coop Aid Foundation’s truck started for the fifth time

The truck of the Coop Aid Foundation has started for the fifth time, which provides a donation of basic foodstuffs worth 25 million HUF to 8,268 state-cared children across the...

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Coop Denmark Rolls Out Vertical Kitchen Gardens In Irma Stores

Coop Denmark has announced plans to introduce vertical kitchen gardens offering store-grown herbs in all 69 Irma stores. The facility will supply herbs to small Irma stores that do not have plants...

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PLMA news

FMCG retail is a pillar of social stability Last time PLMALive.eu, the monthly video magazine of the Private Label Manufacturers Association was about the influence of COVID-19 on European retail,...

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Coop Italia Introduces Solutions For Socially Distanced Shopping

Coop Italia has introduced two new technological solutions to maintain physically distanced shopping in its stores during the coronavirus crisis. Kiosk Coop has been developed for large stores and hypermarkets,...

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Coop Denmark To Tighten Soy Requirements

Coop Denmark has announced plans to increase the proportion of responsibly-produced soy in its private label brands, by tightening requirements. The new requirements will apply to products containing soy as...

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Britain’s Co-op Warns Of Financial Hit From Coronavirus Crisis

Britain’s Co-operative Group has said that additional costs associated with the coronavirus crisis could be up to £275 million (€315 billon). The owner of the country’s sixth largest supermarket chain,...

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Co-op hopes to raise £30m for people hit by Covid-19 lockdown

The Co-op hopes to raise £30m to help those hardest hit by the coronavirus lockdown by allowing members to donate their unspent shopping reward points to a new support fund...

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Coronavirus: Co-op fast tracks 5000-strong recruitment drive

The Co-op is to create 5000 store-based posts which will provide temporary employment for hospitality workers who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis. The grocery retailer said...

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Retail chains and their followers

 Ynsight Research and Silberstein & Partners set up a research team to study consumer opinion about FMCG retailers in social media and on the internet in general. They used the...

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Groupe Casino Teams Up With Beyond Meat

Groupe Casino has signed an agreement with Beyond Meat, which will see the plant-based producer’s products go on sale at Monoprix, Franprix, Géant and Casino Supermarchés as of February. The...

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Coop Switzerland Launches Winter Drink In Three Flavours

Coop Switzerland has launched a new ginger-based winter beverage range under its private-label brand, Karma. The vegan drink is available in a 60-millilitre pack in three flavours – beetroot, ginger,...

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Retail Gazette Loves: The Co-op donates £125,000 to children’s charity

Pledges included a ride on a steam train, an overnight stay at a zoo and Disneyland trip. This month the Co-op donated £125,000 to a children’s charity dedicated to brightening...

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Join the Pick Pack Point network!

The popularity of e-commerce is growing fast in Hungary. Estimation is that 4,500 Hungarian businesses are selling online, having realised net sales of almost HUF 200 billion in the first...

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Recent acknowledgments to COOP staff

For the fifteenth time, the European Trade Day, the most important trade day for the trade sector, was held on 7 November, and many COOP Economic Group employees was honored...

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The COOP chain was again recognized as an energy conscious company

This year, again, the COOP Economic Group has been recognized with the Energy Conservation Company trademark. For the second time since last year, the chain won the title at the...

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Coop Sweden To Relaunch Its Private-Label Brand, Xtra

Coop Sweden has announced plans to relaunch its low-cost, private-label brand, Xtra. The brand is a favourite for price-conscious consumers and offers around 250 everyday food and household products. As...

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Hungarian Order of Merit Knight Cross was awarded to the leaders of the Coop chain

On behalf of the President of the Republic Áder János, Dr. Palkovics László, Minister of Innovation and Technology handed over Hungarian Order of Merit Knight Cross to Pekó László, Chief...

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The 14th Coop Rally ended in Hajdúszoboszló

The professional program has now introduced 119 domestic food producers and distributors. The team of Szatmári Malom Kft. won the Coop Rally this year. The awards ceremony took place on...

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Co-op teams up with Newcastle Uni to open 1st franchise in north east

Co-op has teamed up with Newcastle University Student Union to launch its first franchise store in the north east later this year. The agreement will see the existing students’ union store...

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App-based payment in 30 Co-op UK stores

British convenience retailer Co-op is to extend the trial of its app-based pay-in-aisle technology: 30 stores are planned to be enabled for shoppers to scan and pay with their mobile phones by...

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Magazine: Where promotions are hunting for shoppers

In Slovakia the top grocery retailers are Tesco, Lidl, Kaufland, Billa and Metro. This was one of the many interesting things that we could learn at the Slovakian retail congress –...

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Coop Launches reCIRCLE Reusable Boxes In Switzerland

Coop Switzerland has announced that it has rolled out reusable boxes offered by reCIRCLE in all its 182 Coop restaurants and Coop Take It in the country. The move will...

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Stability and progress

Coop has a stable position as Hungary’s No.2 grocery retailer. Our magazine interviewed László Pekó, chairman of the board of directors at CO-OP Hungary Zrt. and CEO Géza Tóth.  What was 2018...

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Coop is committed to Hungarian products

The cooperation between the Coop and teh Magyar Product Nonprofit Ltd. is extensive and stable since 2015. Coop has always been concentrated on the products produced in Hungary, and is...

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Magazine: Growing importance of modern channels in fruit and vegetable sales

Eszter Kocsis, Nielsen’s retail services senior manager spoke about the results of the company’s fruit and vegetable buying habits survey at the 5th Zsendülés conference in Szeged. She revealed that the...

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