Ulster Grocer

SuperValu stores across Northern Ireland have helped their community partner Action Cancer beat the credit crunch by raising £24,000 in a week-long fundraising drive, organised to keep the charity’s Big Bus service moving.
Celebrating the second anniversary of the service SuperValu customers and staff were asked to donate their 20 pence pieces in a unique fundraising [...]

The past few months seem to have been a never-ending tale of economic doom and gloom and analysts are forecasting that the worst is yet to come. As I have mentioned before in my comment column, I have been feeling the pinch, just like everyone else, and I am worried about what the future holds. But…

As the credit crunch deepens, the trend of recent years for people to eat out more often is definitely in high-speed reverse as consumers tighten their purse strings and switch to the more affordable option of staying in and entertaining at home. But home entertaining is better fun anyway, says Kathy Jensen.
While current economic conditions [...]

You might reasonably be forgiven for assuming that a company whose sole raison d’etre is the production of a wonderfully indulgent range of cakes and buns would be beginning to feel the pinch around now, given the current downturn in our economic fortunes. Yet for Graham’s Bakery in Dromore…