All Grocery articles – Page 394
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News
Retail sales jump in November driven by fashion boost
UK retail sales volumes jumped 2% in November driven by fashion but bricks-and-mortar department stores took a hit.
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Analysis
In quotes: Retail leaders on Christmas trading
Retailers are expecting Christmas sales to go to the wire with just a few days trading to go. Retail Week speaks to retail leaders on festive spending.
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News
Retailers pray for Christmas miracle over final four days
Retailers face a nail-biting Christmas as festive trading goes right to the wire. They hope for a last-minute surge of shoppers, kicked off by payday tomorrow (Friday December 20).
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Opinion
Comment: Debenhams shares drop after supplier squeeze
Retail stocks across the board edged down over the week as the City suffered a case of nerves that Christmas trading has not fully taken off as hoped for.
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News
Busiest Christmas shopping day to fall on Monday December 23
Monday December 23 will be the busiest shopping day of the year according to Visa Europe, which predicts £1.2bn will be spent on its cards.
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News
Tesco to invest $110m to step up Indian presence
Tesco has applied to take a 50% stake in Tata Group’s Trent Hypermarket in India as it bids to become the first foreign supermarket to enter the country.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Tesco, M&S, House of Fraser and White Stuff
Retail news round-up on December 18, 2013: Tesco plots Indian market entry, M&S agrees to gender neutral toys, House of Fraser could be bought by Galeries Lafayette, White Stuff hires new search agency
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Analysis
Analysis: Kroger going strong after a decade of sales growth
In its last quarterly results American food retailer Kroger reached a milestone, achieving 40 consecutive quarters of like-for-like sales increases.
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Analysis
Analysis: Can Aldi and Lidl’s growth figures be believed?
Aldi and Lidl received a boost as stunning new market share data showed half of UK households shopped in the pair in the last 12 weeks. Retail Week takes a look at whether the numbers stack up.
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News
Waitrose sales up 3.1% as customers splash out on luxury food and drink
Waitrose sales jumped 3.1% year-on-year last week as customers stocked up on luxury food and drink for Christmas.
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News
More than half of UK households shop at Aldi and Lidl, Kantar reveals
More than half of UK households shopped at either Aldi or Lidl over the 12 weeks to December 8, according to the latest share figures from Kantar Worldpanel.
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News
Inflation falls to four-year low in November
Inflation dropped to a four-year low in November as it was pulled down by easing price increases across food and energy prices.
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News
Sainsbury's urges shoppers to use their leftovers in January campaign
Sainsbury’s is to launch a marketing campaign in January showing consumers how to make their Sunday roast leftovers go further.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Dixons, online sales, Burberry, BHS and Dunnes Stores
Retail news round-up on December 17, 2013: Dixons profits rocketed in its first half driven by UK arm, November online sales hit record high of £10.1bn and Burberry opens first stand-alone beauty store.
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News
MP Simon Danczuk takes a bite of the high street with Rochdale Deli
It seems that after campaigning for so long to tackle the business rates burden, MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk has worked up an appetite.
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Analysis
In numbers: November's footfall monitor
Footfall in November declined across all regions of the UK, indicating that shoppers have delayed their present-buying until December. Retail Week takes a look at the numbers.
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News
Waitrose pays compensation after online orders hit by IT glitch
Waitrose is to pay compensation to customers after an IT problem forced the grocer to cancel 400 orders just days before Christmas.
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News
Festive grocery loyalty improves as shoppers stick with main supermarket
Customer loyalty is expected to improve this Christmas as shoppers plan to stick with their usual grocer for their main festive food shop.
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News
Footfall drops 2.9% in November as Christmas shoppers leave it late
Footfall dropped 2.9% year on year in November as consumers leave it late to do their Christmas shopping.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Barratts, John Lewis and footfall figures
Retail news round-up on December 16, 2013:Barratts thrown lifeline as Pavers makes £5m rescue offer, UK’s John Lewis reports 1.4% growth in weekly sales to £149.9m, High street footfall in UK falls 3.4% from September to November