All Aldi articles – Page 63
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News
Discount retail's meteoric rise expected to continue
The growth of discount retail is set to continue unabated, with global sales in the discount grocery sector on course to rise 65 per cent by 2012.
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Waitrose challenges Aldi prices
Waitrose boss Mark Price has thrown down the gauntlet to the discounters, claiming the upmarket grocer is cheaper than Aldi on its entry price points in five out of 25 product categories.
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Aldi signs celebrity chef
Discount grocer Aldi has struck a deal with celebrity chef Phil Vickery as part of its quest to push its market share in the UK to 10 per cent.
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Family finances stretched in August
A survey by German discount grocer Aldi has found that the average UK family spent an extra 500 in August, adding more pressure to already overstretched purses.
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AnalysisAldi: Flavour of the year
The discounters are the biggest story in retail right now, but Aldi boss Paul Foley doesn’t want to be bracketed with Lidl and Netto. Jennifer Creevy meets him and finds out why.
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Aldi becomes latest BRC member
German discount giant Aldi is the latest retailer to become a member of the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
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Opinion
Are discount grocers the new black?
Aldi and Lidl are no longer dirty words for the majority of consumers. In the same way that Primark was once sneered at, discount grocers are becoming fashionable. The question is, how long can it be sustained?
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Discounters triumph as shoppers trade down
Asda, Morrisons and the discount food retailers are experiencing a mini sales boom, as rising commodity prices, shoppers trading down and supermarket price wars combine to drive sales, according to two sets of figures from market analysts TNS Worldpanel and Nielsen.
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AnalysisNetto effects: discounters boom in credit crunch
The credit crunch is turning out to be the coming of age for hard discounters in the UK. Jennifer Creevy tours Netto’s latest store with managing director Richard Lancaster.
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Opinion
Discounters have a chance to turn shoppers for good
Shoppers are voting with their feet and figures released this week show that consumer spend in discount supermarkets has reached record levels.
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Analysis
When Aldi came to town
Aldi is attracting middle-class shoppers with its low prices and no-frills approach. Liz Morrell reports from the front line on how it is winning hearts, minds – and wallets
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Opinion
Don’t discount the discounters
Michael and Vicky are a couple in their early 30s. They have one child, both have secure, professional jobs, are comfortably off and own their own home in a nice south London suburb. They live five minutes from one of Sainsbury’s flagship stores. But they choose to drive past it ...
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Grocers’ shares tumble as shoppers embrace discounters
TNS data showing rapid market share growth by hard discounters contributed to a fall in the share prices of quoted grocers. Meanwhile, general stores slipped still further as trading difficulties – real and imagined – undermined sentiment.
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Grocery market to head into decline, Nielsen claims
Grocery market growth has stalled and the sector is poised to slide into decline, according to information company AC Nielsen.
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Opinion
A discounter’s market
Shoppers, of course, have been watching the pennies this year. Yet, with the trend leaning towards staying in rather than going out to restaurants, the grocers have still achieved growth in sales of quality food.
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Opinion
The best of both worlds
It seems we can never get enough small food shops and the news that Waitrose has joined the scramble for smaller format stores is a case in point.
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News
Aldi plans to open first eco store in Shropshire
Discounter Aldi is to open its first eco-store at Ludlow in Shropshire this year.
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Morrisons achieves record grocery market share
Morrisons has achieved record grocery market share and continued growth in the 12 weeks to February 24, according to figures from TNS Worldpanel.
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AnalysisWhy low prices are not enough
People may be watching what they spend, but that hasn’t saved value specialists from collapse. George MacDonald surveys their prospects as they enter another tough year