Tesco - Latest News and Analysis – Page 230
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The people's planopoly
The battle lines have been drawn. On one side are Friends of the Earth, local community groups and small independent retailers. They accuse Tesco et al of: browbeating local authorities with "legalised bungs" (aka planning gains); submitting...
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A passage to India delayed, not cancelled
You would have thought Tesco would be hurting. With its aspirations plainly aimed at foreign shores, the news that Wal-Mart has successfully wooed Bharti Enterprises, beating Tesco into India, should have come as a blow. IGD estimates the Indian...
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Wal-Mart beats Tesco to India
Wal-Mart has beaten Tesco to India, linking up with Indian telecommunications giant Bharti Enterprises in a joint retail venture. Tesco had been one of the retailers, together with Wal-Mart and French retailer Carrefour, in line for the...
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Tesco planning biggest supermarket yet in UK
Tesco is seeking planning permission for the UK's biggest supermarket yet. It is set to apply to Croydon Council in south London for permission to increase its Purley Extra from 82,000 sq ft to 139,000 sq ft. Tesco's largest supermarket...
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Try before you buy
Its slogan is 'Your neighbourhood grocery store' and its emphasis is on every day low prices, but you can't mistake this giant of natural food retailing for your local Tesco. The US's second biggest natural food retailer doesn't stock many...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Total Bonjour, Surbiton, Surrey. Nisa, Woodford, Manchester. Midlands Co-op Measham, Derbyshire. Londis Surbiton, Surrey. Tesco Express, Clifton, Bristol. How they performed. Our...
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"If you pop into Tesco in Hungary, you can find strawberries piled up in pyramids. You'll never find those here"
I've got to admit I have a certain amount of sympathy with Ben Bradshaw's call to cut food and drink packaging. If it's not thick plastic wrapped around my broccoli, or pre-wrapped bananas, it's packets of tea with individually wrapped sachets....
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New electric vans to deliver Tesco goods
Tesco home-shoppers can expect deliveries by a new concept electric van next year after the chain bought 15 of the environmentally friendly vehicles for its dotcom service. The vans do not emit CO2 and are powered by a battery that can...
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Tesco to make a splash with beauty launch
Tesco is embarking on its biggest ever beauty product launch next February after recruiting celebrated experts to help it create 180 new products. Gardening expert Rachel de Thame and A Place in The Sun presenter Jasmine Harman are among...
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The Co-op bares its soul
Below cost selling, price flexing and applying restrictive covenants to land. Typical of Tesco? Asda? Sainsbury's? No - it's the Co-operative Group. The society, which prides itself on its ethical approach to business, this week published...
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Toaster buyers get change from fiver as Asda extends its non food pricing lead
Asda has extended its lead over Tesco in the fight to be the UK's cheapest supermarket for non food items. The Grocer 33's latest non food report reveals that at £177.62, the cost of Tesco's 33-item shopping basket including clothes is...
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Tesco backing trend of reduced alcohol drinks
Tesco is the latest supermarket to put its weight behind the emerging consumer trend for lower alcoholic products. The retailer said its latest sales data showed an increasing number of British drinkers were turning away from strong wines...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Costcutter, Lodway, Bristol, One stop, Station Road, Horsham. Budgens, Tolworth, Surrey Spar, Amersham Road, Bucks. Tesco Express, Wellingborough Road, Northamptonshire. How they...
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Profile Revisited
It already faced Tesco. With Asda's arrival on the Northern Ireland scene, the Henderson Group faces another big, aggressive supermarket. And M&S also is doing well with its Simply Foods format. Yet Henderson, a wholesaler and retailer, is...
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Price Survey
A change in country of origin has sparked a dramatic increase in the price of red seedless grapes this week. The average price of a 1kg punnet has risen by an average of 11.8% with Tesco sporting the most significant increase of the six other...
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Star order
Tesco.com was the clear winner of this quarter's Star Order Award for online shopping excellence. While our mystery web shopper was already registered with the system, this was the first time that she had ever attempted to do an online...
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Tesco backing S&A in ongoing worker row
Tesco and Sainbury's are standing by soft fruit grower S&A as it clashes again with unions. The Herefordshire strawberry growing co-op came under the spotlight earlier in the year after the TGWU received complaints from 200 migrant...
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Online battle intensifies as Asda ramps up coverage
The battle for the online pound is on. This week, Asda disclosed details of its online rollout, first revealed in The Grocer in September, just days after Tesco announced plans to launch an online clothing trial parallel to its non food site,...
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"Asda and Ocado are targeting the grocery market. M&S is focusing on non food. And Tesco is sizing up, well, everything"
All hell broke loose on the internet shopping news front this week. Asda announced plans to hire 1,800 staff as it gears up its web-based operations, Sainsbury's took its online offering to Northern Ireland, and M&S declared that it was keen to...