Waitrose also withdrew a number of products when the horsemeat scandal came to light.
Waitrose's managing director Mark Price said millions will be invested into developing the Duchy brand.
Major retailers that offer, or are introducing, contactless include Waitrose, McDonalds, Boots, WH Smith and Tesco.
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Christmas sales at Waitrose were also strong, up 8.9% for the week to 23 December.
Waitrose has offered a refund to customers should they wish to return the products.
Waitrose managers are encouraged to stock produce from farms within 30 miles of their store.
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The supermarket closed on Tuesday having been taken over by the UK company Waitrose.
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At the higher end of the market, Waitrose also says the proportion is tiny.
John Lewis, which also owns Waitrose, a posh grocery chain, seems to bear this out.
At Waitrose, a spokeswoman said it had had "contradictory results" from tests on the frozen beef meatballs.
Waitrose, the U.K.-based supermarket chain, in October achieved its goal of sending zero food waste to landfills.
The Waitrose Food and Home Store would be the first in Wales, others are located in southern England.
The council will be working in partnership with developers Farrho and John Lewis to bring Waitrose to the town.
Waitrose may be meeting its legal requirement, but Mike Bailey from Oxfam says that it is not good enough.
Waitrose is one of the British supermarkets selling herbs which they label as coming simply from "the West Bank".
Leading retailers including Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose are supporting a government-backed initiative aimed at tackling packaging and food waste.
But the Corn Exchange, which also houses the Ipswich Film Theatre and a new Little Waitrose, is only half of the problem.
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Later the prince and the Duchess of Cornwall toured a Waitrose store in Belgravia, close to their Clarence House home in central London.
Waitrose said it had "seen a trend towards a higher proportion of sales from wines which are on promotion, as customers look for bargains".
"At Waitrose, the welfare of animals and quality of our fresh and frozen meat has always been of the highest priority, " added Mr Price.
Customer service and quality gained the upper hand over low pricing, and Waitrose and Sainsbury's emerged as the preferable destination for the growing middle-class segment.
The tablets are arriving on shelves in John Lewis, Argos, Asda, Dixons, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Blackwell's and Foyles and they are also available to purchase through www.nook.co.uk.
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Waitrose, the grocery arm of the John Lewis Partnership announced it was planning to open a further 16 stores in Scotland over the next five years.
As a large Waitrose and John Lewis opens on the outskirts of town, Ipswich Central said town centre buildings could not rely on new shops coming in.
Waitrose stressed that one test had shown the meatballs to be 100% beef but decided to issue a statement to customers after a second test showed some pork.
The excavations are a requirement of the planning conditions placed on the TEDC development, which is a partnership between the Duchy of Cornwall, Cornwall Council, The Taste of Cornwall and Waitrose.
The new partnership will see the head office of the prince's firm close and move into Waitrose buildings but will involve no redundancies among the 15 members of staff, the firm said.
Belu water can be found on the shelves at Waitrose, a high-end British supermarket chain, as well as in some of London's most exclusive eating establishments, including Nobu, Sketch and the Groucho Club.
The minister also countered the argument that the levy would have a negative effect on investment, saying that Waitrose supermarkets had said it would not put them off opening stores in Northern Ireland.
Yet its range of ciders is in big demand, with Sheppy's Cider now being sold nationally at Waitrose supermarkets, and in the south west at Sainsbury's and Asda, in addition to mail and internet order and from its own farm shop.
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