Tesco news and analysis – Page 260
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Tesco catalogue launch expected
Tesco is set to launch its home shopping catalogue in the first week of September.Reports suggest that the retailer is ready to print around 20 million catalogues offering electrical, garden products and home furniture.It is planning...
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Price Survey
Geoff Igharo Asda remains the price leader this week, but Tesco has drawn much closer than it did last week, when it dropped to a suprising fourth place on our pricing table. Tesco's basket came in at £40.81 this week, just 66p...
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Tesco growth prompts big new depot
Tesco plans to open one of its biggest distribution centres in the UK next year to cope with its increasing growth. A spokesman for Tesco said the £65m development in Goole, near Hull, would provide extra capacity and was not being built...
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Reward for 'green' shoppers who use fewer plastic bags
Tesco is to reward customers for using fewer plastic bags by giving them extra Clubcard points. The retailer will launch the initiative to customers later this month with a prime-time TV advertisement featuring a host of celebrities,...
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Asda vies for top spot with Kids Home range
Asda is jostling with Tesco for the number one spot in non food with the launch of a range of homewares specifically for the kids' market. Kids Home, which will sit alongside the newly rebranded George Home, will include a range of...
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American staff for Tesco's US venture
Tesco is to lure US professionals to its planned stateside convenience venture through a careers web site, which includes a surprise ad for a non food buyer.Within the list of jobs on offer, it gives details of the non food role, with...
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Can Tesco see off Aldi/Lidl threat?
Three events in the past week point to the impact of the hard discounters across Europe. Last week's Allegra report highlighted the growing appeal of German discounters Aldi and Lidl in the UK. Wal-Mart announced its withdrawal from Germany and...
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"Yet another case of retailers taking the lead in delivering the health agenda while manufacturers appear furtive"
It's interesting that on the day Cadbury was all over the media with the news that the salmonella scare had cost it £20m, the Daily Express led with a story on Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda banning "killer" fats in their own label products. ...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedBUDGENS Tolworth, Surreysouth west CO-OP Wyndham Way, Portishead COSTCUTTER Eden Street, KingstonTESCO EXPRESS Derby Road, DerbyTESCO METRO Mather Street, Salford How...
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Price Survey
Gaelle Walker The gap between Asda and Tesco's total basket prices has remained achingly wide this week. At £46.50 the cost of our 33 items at Tesco came to a whopping £3.17 more expensive than at Asda, a fact which is keeping...
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Tesco knows how to spot a homegrown winner
Sir; I read with interest the experts' view on succession planning. There was one important ingredient missing: the genius of the outgoing monarch to spot early and nurture the future...
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Cheese with probiotics
A probiotic cheese that has the added benefit of being half-fat will be in Tesco at the end of next month. The mature Cheddar is the result of 12 months' development by Somerset-based Cricketer Farm and has been created to provide...
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M&S to beat Tesco to Gerrards Cross
Marks and Spencer will beat Tesco to opening a food store in Gerrards Cross, it was confirmed this week. Tesco had to put its plans on hold after a tunnel collapsed beneath the site of its proposed store last July. But now M&S has...
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Burgundy wines in 25cl
Burgundian wine brand Blason de Bourgogne has launched the first two wines in its minis range.Its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay variants will be available in Tesco from the middle of next month in 25cl bottles, priced at £1.99 each, as well...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedLondis Hollyhead Road, CoventryJacksons King Edwards Drive, Harrogatespar Main Street, Torrance, Nr GlasgowTesco Express Amersham Road, Buckinghamshireco-op Little Common Road,...
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Price Survey
Gaelle WalkerPricing strategies at Tesco seemed to run awry this week. As the mercury hit the 90s, so Tesco's total basket price soared to £47.14, plunging the retailer, which is usually ranked as the UK's second cheapest supermarket...
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Eddie Stobart signs Tesco delivery deal
Logistics firm Eddie Stobart has secured its first food and drink transport contract with Tesco. The logistics firm, which already delivers a number of non-food lines for Tesco, will take over distribution from the retailer's Blackmills...
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Country Life looks for organic milk growth
Country Life will become the first major brand to enter the organic milk category when it launches into Tesco next month.The butter brand is making its milk debut to take advantage of what brand owner Dairy Crest describes as the fastest...
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Tesco extends concept of self-service at tills
Tesco is moving one step closer to cashier-less stores with the largest single-store installation of self-service checkouts in the UK. Its London Metro store in Bishopsgate has been transformed for commuters and offers 20 self-service...
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Nolan quits post at Superquinn chain
Tom Nolan, purchasing director for Irish supermarket chain Superquinn, is leaving the company after just a year in the job.Nolan, a former Tesco Ireland executive, joined the 21-store chain shortly after its E420m purchase from Senator...