All Discounters articles – Page 136
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NewsAdvertising: Co-op and Aldi are of like minds
Interesting parallels can be drawn between recent advertising from The Co-operative Group and Aldi, says Richard Hemmings
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Fifteen former Woolies shops become 99p Stores
99p Stores has snapped up 15 former Woolworths stores and has already started trading in a third of them.
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Iceland returns to Ireland with franchise deal
Iceland, the frozen food retailer, is back in the Irish market, almost four years after closing down its stores in the Republic and walking away due to mounting losses.
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Poundland, Lidl unveil ’09 growth plans
Budget retailer Poundland has announced plans to open a raft of new stores in 2009 despite the prospect of a drawn-out recession.
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Lidl - it's not just a shop, it's a way of life
Aha! Now you can live out your Alan Partridge fantasies while shopping for £5 lobsters thanks to a unique tie-up between Lidl and budget hotel chain Travelodge. Consumers can shop 'til they drop even further down the dignity league by...
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Discounters more expensive than big four supermarkets
The discounters are more expensive than all of the big four supermarkets, according to exclusive research carried out for The Grocer, with Asda the cheapest and Aldi charging the highest prices.
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Discounters more expensive than big four supermarkets
The discounters are more expensive than all of the big four supermarkets, according to exclusive research carried out for The Grocer, with Asda the cheapest and Aldi charging the highest prices. Using a list of 50 ‘essential’ grocery items, our...
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Editor's Comment: If quality was the real battleground, Aldi would have rebranded as Trader Joe
The rise of the discounters this year has been nothing short of extraordinary. At 3.1% Aldi's market share is now close to that of Waitrose (3.6%). To some extent, the discounters have been filling up the space left by Kwik Save's demise,...
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Every Lidl helps, except this one
Forget mere accidental melamine contamination - one Lidl store in Sweden is in trouble for deliberately poisoning discarded food. The genius plan was hatched to stop those pesky homeless types feasting on expired lobster ready-meals and...
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Aldi: planning law change is 'not healthy'
Aldi is lobbying the Government not to push through changes to the planning laws that it feels would make store development too difficult.Next year, communities secretary Hazel Blears plans to get rid of the controversial needs test, which...
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Lidl store closed for food safety breach
The image of discount chain Lidl, which has been winning increasing customer support in the Irish Republic as the recession bites, has been dealt a blow by hygiene inspectors from the food safety authority.They ordered the closure of a Lidl...
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Iceland runs missing people photo appeal
Frozen food chain Iceland has launched an appeal with the Missing People charity and will print photographs of vulnerable missing people on the side of its milk bottles. The pictures will appear on four-pint packs, with each person being...
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Advertising: Home-grown values from The Co-op
We've read a lot about the competition between Lidl and Aldi but as far as advertising is concerned, it's a three-way fight in the smaller retailer sector. The Co-operative Group's investment in advertising this year isn't far behind that of its...
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Credit crunch prompts 99p Stores sales boom
The credit crunch has helped 99p Stores record half-year like-for-like sales growth of 7.5%.Shoppers had turned to the value retailer in the past six months as the economic downturn worsened, said 99p Stores commercial director Hussein...
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Aldi and Lidl sales in Ireland increase 15%
Shoppers in the Irish Republic are flocking to Aldi and Lidl as they struggle to cope with the deepening recession, new data has revealed. Figures from TNS show that 69% of Irish households have shopped at the two discounters in the past...
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Green puts bid for Iceland on hold – reports
Sir Philip Green, the retail magnate linked with an approach for Baugur's UK retail interests, has put his interest in the group on hold, according to media reports.
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Woolies is on ice, but what of Malcolm’s own empire?
Malcolm Walker has now ruled out a Woolworths takeover, but the future of Iceland is even more intriguing. Peter Cripps and Adam Leyland report
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Iceland’s Walker tipped to swoop on shares in Baugur
Admitting plans to buy Woolworths have been put on the back burner, speculation is rife that Iceland Foods boss Malcolm Walker is mounting a bid to buy out the business outright. In an exclusive interview with The Grocer, Walker refused to rule out...
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Should Sainsbury’s fear the hard discounters?
While headlines suggest middle-class shoppers are flocking in their 4x4s to Aldi and Lidl, the true picture may not be so simple, reports Sarah Butler
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Vickery ads push up Aldi’s seabass sales
Aldi’s sales of seabass have increased ten-fold in the two weeks since celebrity chef Phil Vickery has promoted it. The chef has endorsed the fish in the discounter’s television advertisements and on podcasts on Aldi’s website in which he...