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The size of its ambitions
Tesco’s huge new Extra in Slough has all local needs totally covered. Liz Hamson reportsAt first glance, Tesco’s new Extra in Slough looks more like a warehouse than a supermarket. The trademark red and blue fascia is the only...
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Good till hunting
Kevin Hunt talks to James Durston about the Tesco challengeKevin Hunt has missed his vocation as a Formula 1 driver, judging by the office cabinet full of racing memorabilia. But as MD of the Lawrence Hunt & Co franchise of Spar...
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Tesco to employ more Poles
Tesco is to up the number of Polish workers it employs in the UK after a successful recruitment drive in February, at the same time as dealing with protests from Polish agency staff in Dublin over pay.A Tesco spokeswoman said the UK recruitment...
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Cashing in on quality taste
Rod AddyIncreased interest in food quality and origin is boosting sales for Waitrose, enabling it to outperform every food and drink retailer bar Tesco, according to City analysts.The verdict flies in the face of the popular belief that...
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Tesco, Sainsbury to keep selling 35mm cameras
Tesco and Sainsbury will continue to sell film cameras in-store and online, despite the decision of electrical retailer Dixons to phase them out.Dixons revealed this week that sales of digital cameras in its stores were outstripping sales of...
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RFID watches shoppers
Tesco has embarked on a front-of-house RFID trial that uses tags on trollies to follow shoppers around stores to monitor their behaviour.The initiative kicked off last week at its Korean hypermarket chain, Tesco HomePlus, in collaboration with...
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Tesco struts its stuff
Tesco’s evolution from basics to fashion retailer has helped it seize a sizeable chunk of business from high street retailers. And there’s more to come this autumn, the head of its UK clothing business, Jason Tarry, tells Liz...
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Tesco faces pay militancy
Tesco has become the latest supermarket to be hit by the on-going unrest among distribution workers and unions.Asda and Morrisons distribution centres have already been caught up in various pay and employment disputes for months and now the...
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Tesco may dropGerrards Cross
Speculation is growing that Tesco may be planning to walk away from its controversial store development at Gerrards Cross.A crucial engineering report, following the collapse of a tunnel last month, is being anxiously awaited on all...
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Tesco closes Slough superstore, opens new Extra
Tesco put an end to the controversy surrounding its dominance in Slough this week by closing the superstore at the centre of the debate.The move comes as the retailer re-opened its newly refurbished 101,000 sq ft Extra store on Monday (August...
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Irish MPs calling for profits probe
An Irish parliamentary committee has called for an official study to establish the profits made by multiples in the Republic’s l7bn-plus grocery market, and which are not disclosed by the major chains, Tesco, Dunnes and Superquinn. As part of...
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Tesco helps those with nut allergies
from Jonathan Church, external communications manager, TescoSir; I was disappointed to see that your recent article on our new nut labelling initiative (‘Tesco nut policy could backfire’, July 23, p11) failed to recognise the...
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Tesco top of personal finance market
Tesco is the top new entrant in the personal finance market, a Mintel report will show today.The report, Non-Traditional Providers in Financial Services, found that Tesco Personal Finance has won 4.6 million customer accounts since it...
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Star order:Tesco
>>easy ordering; spot-on deliveryOnline retailing is becoming the next great battleground for grocery giants hell-bent on realising untapped growth potential. Our summer shopping survey reveals that attention to detail,...
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Online service still lagging
Asda has a long way to go if it is to challenge Tesco’s dominance of online grocery, according to The Grocer’s latest online shopping survey.The number two retailer is currently investing heavily in its online offer in a bid to double its...
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Harry Potter sells a million
The top three supermarkets have sold more than one million copies between them of the sixth instalment of JK Rowling’s boy wizard series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, attracting shoppers with their cut-price offers.Tesco, which cut...
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Tesco moves to find where retail price initiative money ended up
Tesco has called in its two liquid milk suppliers – Arla Foods and Robert Wiseman Dairies – to carry out an audit on where the retail price initiative money has ended up, according to reports.Sources in the farming sector claimed the move...
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Tesco sets style for denim
Tesco is relaunching its denim range as part of a major drive to increase its clothing offer by almost 30% this autumn, while Sainsbury is making a play for the back-to-school market with its first own-label kidswear range.Tesco’s new range,...