Archive of all Tesco articles – Page 288

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    Nutri Centre debut at Tesco

    2002-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has opened the first in-store Nutri Centre in its flagship store in West Kensington, London. In the joint venture, customers will be able to purchase more than 3,000 herbal and homeopathic remedies, aromatherapy oils, vitamins, minerals...

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    Tesco's one stop shop

    2002-11-08T00:00:00Z

    Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into convenience beset by planning battles and distribution problems. Instead it is grabbing a 5% slice of the convenience market in one go. All it needs is T&S’s shareholders to rubberstamp...

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    C-sector is set to fight

    2002-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The Grocer news team Tesco won't find convenience retailing as easy as it thinks warned industry chiefs following its bid to buy an 862 storechunk of the market. AF Blakemore retail director Elwyn Davies said: "This is only bad news for bad...

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    Safeway thrives on off-fixtures

    2002-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons and Tesco remain at the top of the retailers' chart with Morrisons pulling slightly further ahead. Tesco is being chased by Safeway, which has moved up from number five. The success of Safeway this week is due in part to the...

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    MORRISONS is the THREAT TO TESCO

    2002-11-02T00:00:00Z

    from D Wakeling, Crabtree, Paston, Peterborough Sir; with reference to your Store Analysis report (October 12, p23) where you analysed why Morrisons would want to trade from Enfield when there were two Tesco stores and a Sainsbury within...

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    Tesco skates on Streatham ice

    2002-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has put in a planning application for a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Streatham, south London. The scheme will include a new 38,000 sq ft Tesco store, private and affordable housing, a public square, improved public transport links and...

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    A hit that's only faintly bruising

    2002-11-02T00:00:00Z

    A good performance by Safeway and Sainsbury helped to prevent our basket of shares from taking an alarming dip this month. However, even though many of our companies are outperforming the market, we took a loss of £37.Tesco dropped a few...

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    Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into

    2002-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Then it can get on with its plans to convert 450 prime sites to its lucrative Express format over the next three to four years. The masterplan is to use T&S's distribution network to serve the new standalone Express chain and around 400 residual One...

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    Tesco buys T&S Stores

    2002-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has agreed to buy convenience store group T&S Stores for £377.3m to boost its presence in the convenience market.T&S's portfolio of stores includes more than 1,200 shops including 862 convenience stores under the One Stop and Day &...

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    Stock failures revealed

    2002-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Watson Tesco and Sainsbury are missing out on a major sales opportunity through poor product availability, according to new research by Taylor Nelson Sofres revealed at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Food Retailing conference. Data...

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    Stock failures revealed

    2002-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Tesco and Sainsbury are missing out on a major sales opportunity through poor product availability, according to new research by Taylor Nelson Sofres revealed at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Food Retailing conference.Data from TNS...

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    Twist is ready to dance for the nation

    2002-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Bacardi-Martini is ready for a national roll out of its Breezer Twist after a four-month trial in Tesco. Breezer Twist's range of fruit-flavoured spirits comes in three versions, lime, watermelon, and mango with passion fruit, each with a...

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    Clubcard partners

    2002-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Allders and Dollond & Aitchison have signed up as partners for Tesco's Clubcard and are the first of many, according to the retailer. Tesco is negotiating with "a number of other companies", said a spokesman, to make loyalty points available "in...

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    Tesco teams up with high street store

    2002-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has ramped its loyalty card offer in time for the festive season by linking up with Allders to offer Clubcard points on all goods bought at the department store group.Clubcard holders will get one point for every £1 spent at Allders or...

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    Terms of global impediment

    2002-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is the latest big retailer to rattle its sabre in the battle to sweep away local pricing strategies in pursuit of global goals. Tesco’s decision to tackle head on the discrepancies in terms it is receiving in the different markets in which...

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    Usdaw recruiting

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury and Morrisons have been targeted by shopworkers' union Usdaw for a recruitment campaign. Usdaw broke through the 100,000 members barrier at Tesco last week and has plans to grow membership. Both Sainsbury and Morrisons claim to...

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    Tesco ranging really is a revolution

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Sir; re There is competition in ranging' (Letters, October 12) in which Carol Bavister of Shelfmax challenged Ben Wishart's claims about Tesco's ranging systems. Wishart, IT...

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    Tesco top for flowers

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Judges have voted Tesco Fresh Flower Retailer of the Year at the 2002 Retail Industry Awards. Tesco was up against Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer for the award, which was sponsored by the Flower Council of Holland. The judging panel...

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    innovation leads to the finest ideas

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    As Tesco prepared to celebrate the fifth birthday of its Finest sub-brand with a major revamp of the range, delegates at the IGD convention were hearing from one major marketer how UK retailers were in danger of destroying value in the grocery...

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    Source tags eyed by Waitrose

    2002-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Anne Bruce Waitrose has become the latest UK supermarket to develop source tagging capabilities as momentum builds behind the technology. Marks and Spencer, Safeway, Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury are also conducting analysis and trials of the...