All Tesco articles – Page 248

  • Opinion

    Can Tesco beat the discounters at their own game?

    2008-09-19T12:45:20Z

    It seems strange that the mighty Tesco should be worried about a competitor that is just a fraction of its size. Yet this week the grocer launched its biggest package of money-saving measures since it launched its iconic Value range 15 years ago.

  • News

    Aldi responds to launch of Tesco Discounter range

    2008-09-18T08:46:51Z

    Aldi has said “it is very much business as usual” for the discount grocer after yesterday’s launch of Tesco’s 100 million Discounter range.

  • News

    Tesco silences rumours over supplier switch

    2008-09-17T11:52:28Z

    Tesco has confirmed its commitment to data warehouse supplier Teradata following the news that it has completed a project with an alternative supplier.

  • News

    Tesco complaint against Asda upheld

    2008-09-17T08:39:04Z

    The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint by Tesco against a national price comparison advertising campaign by Asda.

  • News

    Tesco launches into discounter arena

    2008-09-16T18:41:54Z

    Tesco has today launched its biggest package of money-saving measures since the launch of its iconic Value range in a bid to become Britain’s biggest discounter.

  • News

    Grocery sales climb 5.8 per cent

    2008-09-16T17:09:53Z

    Grocery sales rose 5.8 per cent in the past 12 weeks on the same period last year, according to the latest figures from Nielsen.

  • News

    Crunch drives sales at discount grocers

    2008-09-16T15:32:07Z

    Grocery sales rose 7.3 per cent in the 12 weeks to September 7, according to the TNS Worldpanel grocery market share figures, as inflation fuelled sales.

  • News

    Tesco targets discounters with low-cost food offer

    2008-09-16T09:13:29Z

    Tesco has launched a new low-cost food line in its supermarkets as it gears up to take on discounters Aldi and Lidl.

  • News

    Tesco launches meat-free range

    2008-09-12T09:27:01Z

    Tesco will this weekend launch a meat-free food range, targeting “bi-tarians” – meat eaters who regularly opt for vegetarian meals.

  • News

    New season of negative updates gives retail analysts little reassurance

    2008-09-11T11:11:45Z

    Retail had regained favour in the run-up to the reporting season, but the first set of updates brought a slew of bad news.

  • News

    Tesco speeds up basket and loss analysis

    2008-09-10T12:28:00Z

    Tesco has replaced a system at its data centre in order to improve both the basket analysis and stock wastage analysis it runs.

  • Opinion

    A forgotten age

    2008-08-29T12:04:58Z

    In all the clamour to convince shoppers that they are the cheapest grocer, some supermarkets have forgotten one demographic group relatively unscathed by the credit crunch – the silver surfers.

  • News

    Tesco withdraws site from eco-towns project

    2008-08-29T10:31:00Z

    Tesco has pulled one of its developments from the Government’s “eco-towns” scheme, which has dealt a blow to the flagship environmental programme.

  • News

    Tesco supplier in US reported to employment tribunal

    2008-08-28T09:40:23Z

    One of Tesco’s suppliers in the US has been reported by America’s biggest food workers’ union in the latest spat between the two organisations.

  • Opinion

    Investment market lives on

    2008-08-26T11:32:42Z

    There aren't many retailers in the nice position of being able to sell a £605 million property portfolio but still own the bulk of their freeholds.

  • News

    Tesco local sourcing sales to reach £500m

    2008-08-26T08:54:58Z

    Tesco is on course to generate more than 500 million from the sale of locally sourced food and drink sales this year, according to The Times .

  • Big names: Richard H
    Analysis

    Do stars still sell?

    2008-08-21T11:58:00Z

    With marketing budgets feeling the pinch, retailers may be thinking twice about signing celebrities to front their brand. Charlotte Hardie asks when they’re worth it and how they can be put to best use

  • News

    Tesco goes live with online opticians

    2008-08-21T09:14:08Z

    Tesco has launched an online optical prescription service to take advantage of the fast-growing eyecare market.

  • News

    Tesco price ads banned

    2008-08-20T08:51:59Z

    Tesco has been rapped over the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for misleading the public in two of its ads comparing prices with Asda and Morrisons.

  • News

    Discounters triumph as shoppers trade down

    2008-08-19T15:47:31Z

    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.