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...The boss of J Sainsbury said shoppers were starting to splurge on certain items after two years of shopping for bargains, as Britain’s second-biggest supermarket forecast rising profits this year....
...Tesco’s decision to quit the business comes after rival J Sainsbury last month said it planned a “phased withdrawal” from its banking business and would instead sell financial services through third parties...
...Tesco’s chief executive Ken Murphy told analysts in January that “in terms of profitability . . . clearly we’re expecting some headwinds from wages” in the year ahead....
...I’ve sampled enough “miracle creams” with mundane results to know that J-Lo’s Firm + Flaunt Targeted Booty Balm is unlikely to give me her shapely posterior....
...The strong performance from Tesco and M&S comes a day after rival J Sainsbury disappointed investors with weak general merchandise sales....
...Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic about American nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer received 13 nominations in total, including nods for the blue-ribbon Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan and Best...
...Ken’s cold feet: Ken Griffin, Mr Citadel, gave a pro-Nikki Haley super Pac $5mn in December and January....
...Kenvue — whose brand combines the word “ken”, a word used in Scotland that means knowledge, and “vue”, referencing sight — warned in an update to its IPO prospectus this week that “various parties” had brought...
...Much of the intellectual heavy-lifting for Oppenheimer was done by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherman’s biography American Prometheus....
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury has provided further evidence that food price inflation is easing, as the group reported an almost 10 per cent increase in sales....
...For former J Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, however, a genetic condition that affects her lash growth meant falsies were the only way....
...Tesco chief executive Ken Murphy recently said he believed “we’re past the peak inflation” while J Sainsbury head Simon Roberts said earlier this month that “food inflation is starting to fall”....
...His fund suffered multibillion-dollar losses and required an emergency $2.75bn investment from Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Cohen’s Point72....
...HOLD: J Sainsbury (SBRY) A strong Christmas season underpinned a bullish trading update for the supermarket group, writes Christopher Akers....
...Marshall Wace co-founder Paul Marshall recently brought fellow hedge fund tycoon Ken Griffin into the fold in a bid for the media group — read the FT deep-dive here....
...This time, according to chief executive Ken Murphy, Tesco has a “relentless focus on value”....
...“We are not sure that inflation has peaked just yet, but we would hope that by the middle of the year it will start to come down the other side,” said Ken Murphy....
...Ken Murphy at Tesco declared himself “cautiously optimistic”....
...J: court stops the music for the ‘Texas two-step’ (Lex)...
...J Sainsbury, which has a checkout-free store in the same area, said shoppers did not have to have a Nectar loyalty card to use it....
...Ken Murphy, chief executive of the UK’s largest food retailer Tesco, even warned that UK inflation could climb further....
...“Companies make the mistake of just saying ‘we’re doing this,’” says Ken....
...“It’s a big undertaking,” admitted Simon Roberts, chief executive of J Sainsbury. “We’ve got 600 supermarkets and this requires us to re-lay [change the layout of] significant parts of every store.”...
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