All Netto articles – Page 7
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Japan’s Seven & I ups discounts to beat gloom
Japanese conglomerate Seven & I, which operates more than 33,000 retail outlets across the world, has unveiled a strategy to help it counter the economic downturn in 2009.
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Tesco launches half-price Christmas Sale
Tesco is launching a huge half-price Sale today in an attempt to lure more shoppers in the run-up to Christmas.
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Tesco launches Christmas dinner for £7.93
Tesco has hacked the price of a family Christmas dinner with all the trimmings to just 7.93 – less than the cost five years ago.
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Netto UK boss Richard Lancaster quits
Netto UK managing director Richard Lancaster has resigned to join another retailer.
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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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Netto launches non-food Sale
Discount grocer Netto will launch a discount bonanza for the end of August to drive shoppers to its stores.
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WHSmith to expand plastic bag fee trial
WHSmith is to extend its trial to scrap free plastic bags to other parts of the UK after a successful pilot in the Midlands and the Northwest.
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Netto mulls online in £1bn UK vision
Discount supermarket chain Netto is considering launching a limited online offer within two years as part of plans to create a 1 billion UK business.
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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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Consumer confidence plummets again
Consumers are becoming increasingly nervous, with consumer spending growth expected to slow to just 0.5 per cent next year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.
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Opinion
Cash rich, time poor
Grocers talk about shoppers trading down out of restaurants to snap up ready meals in their stores to treat themselves at home. And for the likes of Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, plus the big four grocers, this may well be the case.
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Tesco to ramp up banking offer in stores following £950m RBS deal
Tesco is poised to roll out personal finance desks in about 200 of its Extra superstores after buying Royal Bank of Scotland’s 50 per cent stake in Tesco Personal Finance (TPF) for 950 million.
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Opinion
The value of value
You have to wonder about the place of design when you visit a branch of Aldi, Lidl or Netto.
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Price war hots up as Netto slashes staples
Danish discount supermarket Netto has waded into the UK’s grocery price war by slashing the price of key staple items.
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Netto sales climb
Value retailers continue to pull in the customers, with Netto announcing a 7 per cent sales increase over the year to June 14.
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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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Netto thrives as it benefits from penny-pinching
Value grocer Netto reported an 11 per cent increase in UK turnover to £696.4 million for the 12 months to December 31 last year and has vowed to deliver further growth this year.
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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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NewsGerman discounter merger in danger as regulator acts
The German grocery regulator could block a landmark merger that would shake up the discount grocery market in the country.
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Debenhams to charge for carrier bags
Department store Debenhams is the latest retailer to join the plastic bag campaign and will start charging 5p for carrier bags.