Tesco news and analysis – Page 267
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Tesco plans 'world class' training site
Tesco aims to build a state-of-the-art 69,000 sq ft retail academy close to its HQ in Hertfordshire. The facility in Theobalds Park, Cheshunt, will serve as a training centre for Tesco UK staff and executives from its international...
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Tesco rebranding: Organic and proud
Tesco is relaunching its Tesco Organic range, with new-look packaging set to hit stores within two weeks.The new packs, made of recycled material, bear a black background and images from food photographer Laurie Evans. Grass will appear...
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Tesco rebranding: Organic and proud
Tesco is relaunching its Tesco Organic range, with new-look packaging set to hit stores within two weeks.The new packs, made of recycled material, bear a black background and images from food photographer Laurie Evans. Grass will appear...
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Price Survey
Asda's decision to join Tesco and Waitrose in raising the price of its own label milk has had little impact on its position as the UK's cheapest supermarket, according to The Grocer 33's latest survey. Both Asda and Morrisons have...
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Switched on to Tesco aims
Tesco has appointed Terry Greenwood as electricals director. He joins from DSG International, which changed its name from Dixons Group in September last year, where he was a senior executive. Tesco said that Greenwood's appointment would...
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Technology blips force Tesco into RFID rethink
Tesco has ditched its plan to roll out RFID to 1,400 stores and 30 distribution centres after technology problems forced a rethink. It had originally planned to have RFID readers at all depots and on at least one door of every store...
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Technology blips force Tesco into RFID rethink
Tesco has ditched its plan to roll out RFID to 1,400 stores and 30 distribution centres after technology problems forced a rethink.It had originally planned to have RFID readers at all depots and on at least one door of every...
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Councils gun for Tesco over property deals
Tesco&'s planning deals are back in the spotlight with one council threatening to move tenants into derelict properties owned by the retailer, while another council is accused of secretive land deals with it. St Albans District...
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Tesco urges farmers to join organic team
Tesco has launched an initiative aimed at recruiting more British organic farmers and increasing the availability of British-sourced organic meat. The initiative was kickstarted at the Tesco-sponsored Food Animal Initiative in Oxford. The...
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We're getting into a winning mood
All the evidence is that June has been a storming month for the industry in sales terms. The Waitrose numbers show an acceleration in trend, Tesco has mentioned it in passing and this week Sainsbury confirmed that since the Whitsun Bank...
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Self-checkout
Self-checkout is the most exciting growth area in customer-facing retail IT, with the majority of the world's leading food retailers trialling or rolling out systems. Self-checkout pioneers include Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Auchan, Casino and...
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Self-checkout
Self-checkout is the most exciting growth area in customer-facing retail IT, with the majority of the world&'s leading food retailers trialling or rolling out systems. Self-checkout pioneers include Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Auchan,...
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Best in show
Britain's biggest retailer has done it again, walking off with a hat-trick of trophies at this year's awards. Tesco mirrored last year's success by once again taking the coveted titles of Grocer of the Year and Britain's Favourite Supermarket....
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Best in show
Tesco comes out tops again in the big threeBritain&'s biggest retailer has done it again, walking off with a hat-trick of trophies at this year&'s awards. Tesco mirrored last year&'s success by once again taking the...
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Tesco olive branch for small suppliers
Tesco is to improve ranging in Express stores and give smaller suppliers more access to buyers, it told a gathering of hundreds of suppliers. It also told them to speed up new product development and improve order fulfilment to keep Tesco...
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How to really pack a punch
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was another close call. Asda and Tesco both provided our shoppers with brimming baskets so customer service became the deciding factor. Asda won as our shopper at Asda Gateshead was offered help...
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inside track
Tesco's recent announcement that sales of books grew by 52% in its latest financial year (to 25 February 2006) should be good news. But in the book business there is no such thing as a silver lining without a cloud. Publishers fret that...
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inside track
Philip Jones, editor, The Bookseller:In the book business, there is no such thing as a silver lining without a cloudTesco&'s recent announcement that sales of books grew by 52% in its latest financial year (to 25 February...
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Triple whammy Tesco!
Tesco was voted Britain's best by both consumers and industry experts at The Grocer Gold Awards this week as it walked off with a triumvirate of trophies. The UK's biggest retailer beat strong competition from Waitrose to win Grocer of...
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Tesco raises milk prices
Tesco has increased the price of its fresh milk by 20%.Reports suggest that the retailer has increased the price of a two-pinter of milk by 11p to 64p.A spokesman for the company said that the price increase “better reflected the...