All Discounters (grocery) articles – Page 25
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Opinion
Comment: Mike Coupe is right to update Sainsbury’s offer
Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe’s decision to update the retailer’s offer is a necessary response to grocery’s changing landscape.
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News
Aldi pledges to create 35,000 new jobs in the UK
Aldi has revealed plans to create 35,000 jobs in the UK as the discount grocer looks to open 550 new stores over the next eight years.
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News
Aldi steps up US expansion with Bottom Dollar acquisition
Aldi has acquired all 66 stores of Delhaize Group’s Bottom Dollar chain as part of ambitious expansion plans in the east of the US.
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News
Lidl launches menswear collection after womenswear success
Discount supermarket Lidl has launched a menswear range in the UK following the success of its womenswear collection.
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Opinion
Comment: It's a long road to scale, but Netto has made a good start
When the Netto/Sainsbury’s joint venture was revealed, I had to pull the car over while driving to fully understand what had been announced.
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News
Morrisons 'encouraged by progress' despite 6.3% like-for-like fall
Morrisons’ like-for-likes excluding petrol slumped 6.3% in the 13 weeks to November 2 and total sales excluding fuel were down by 3.6%.
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News
In pictures: Netto unveils first store as it takes on Aldi and Lidl
Netto has claimed it will “set new standards for discount retailing in the UK” as it opens its first UK store in Leeds today.
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News
Aldi launches Christmas ad to highlight its 'unbeatable value'
Grocery discounter Aldi has unveiled its new Christmas TV ad, which is designed to reflect its growing popularity among consumers.
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Opinion
Comment: Iceland has created opportunity from the grocery battlefield
The battle raging between the grocers on price and innovation has made tough decisions necessary - but it has also brought opportunities.
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News
Tesco has lost touch with its core customer, says Sir Terry Leahy
Former Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy has said that the UK’s largest retailer has lost touch with its core customers and loyal shoppers.
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Analysis
Analysis: Best of a bad bunch? Morrisons trumps Tesco according to Moody’s
Tesco and Morrisons are both battling to turn themselves around in the face of an extraordinary structural shift in grocery.
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Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: Tesco’s little shop of horrors
Retail Week’s cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Dave Lewis’ nightmare Halloween, with accounting errors and discounter ghouls.
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News
99p Stores enhances grocery offer as profits rise at the retailer
99p Stores has unveiled rising profits and is preparing to expand its grocery offer in its biggest investment programme.
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Analysis
The 12 trends of Christmas: this festive season's big themes
Christmas is fast approaching and retailers are preparing for a frenetic shopping season. Retail Week looks at the themes that will dominate this Christmas.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and M&S
Retail news round-up on October 29, 2014: Tesco to sell private plane; Aldi and Lidl continue to rise; M&S promotion results in delays.
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Opinion
Comment: Has there been a more confusing time to be a grocery shopper?
While consumers may be basking in lower prices they have to wade through increasingly opaque and confusing messages from the big four.
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Gallery
Story gallery: Trader Joe’s LA store brings humour to discount retail
Aldi-owned US discount grocer Trader Joe’s seeks to inject humour into the business of food shopping with its Los Angeles’ branch.
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Gallery
Store gallery: Are discounters gaining on supermarkets’ store design?
Discounters and supermarkets still have different approaches to store design, but North London stores show that this divide may be shifting.
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News
Sainsbury’s slashes Nectar reward points for customers
From next year Sainsbury’s is to halve the number of Nectar reward points it offers members of the loyalty scheme.
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Analysis
Analysis: How Shoe Zone put its best foot forward in value retail
Value shoe retailer Shoe Zone’s tightly run, no-frills business model has attracted investors and price-savvy shoppers alike.