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Carrefour opens Click & Drive in Indonesia
Carrefour has opened its first drive-in service in Indonesia at the flagship Lebak Bulus hypermarket, south of Jakarta.The initiative, named Click & Drive, enables customers to shop online, choose a time slot and then pick up their goods at a dedicated parking location.Unlike its European equivalents, the drive-in service does ...
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OpinionComment: A decade of change and more to come
Our firm’s recent 10th anniversary has caused us to reflect on what has happened in the retail sector over the past decade – an extraordinary period of change and corporate activity – and to wonder what might happen in the next 10 years.
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AnalysisRetail Week on the Road: Ireland
This week’s final instalment of our On the Road series visits Cork, where food specialist Musgrave is in expansion mode, before heading to Tallaght to visit department store chain Heatons, and Dublin’s upscale department stores Arnotts and Brown Thomas.
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NewsTesco introduces 'traffic light' food labelling system
Tesco has changed its stance to introduce the ‘traffic light’ colour coding system on food packaging after previously shunning the system.
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GalleryIn pictures: Tesco-backed coffee shop opens
The first Harris+Hoole cafe, the new coffee shop chain backed by Tesco, opened in Amersham this week.
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NewsWaitrose to launch new apprenticeship scheme
Waitrose is to launch a new year-long apprenticeship scheme next month.
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Lidl “first and fastest” to open on Sundays
Schwarz Group’s Lidl has begun opening on Sundays in anticipation of changed legislation in Denmark.As of last week, all Danish Lidl stores were open on Sundays, the retailer has said, adding that it has been the “first and fastest” to do so.The new laws on store opening hours that will ...
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NewsCostcutter sales edge up as it speeds up Kwiksave roll-out
Sales at Costcutter have edged up in the first six months of the year while it has revised its target for new Kwiksave stores upward.
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NewsBooths kickstarts roll-out of new look stores
Booths in investing £2m in a roll out of its revamped new look stores first trialled at the BBC’s new studios in Salford Quays.
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NewsTesco faces fines after border agency raid
Tesco has been raided by the UK Border Agency which has discovered the grocer has been employing people for longer hours than their visa allowed.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Ocado price war threat
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner has revealed plans to challenge the online grocer’s competitors on prices in the next two to three years - an initiaitive described by some as a price war threat. But the question is, can he make good on his word?
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NewsCarlyle Group lines up £50m deal for Graze
American private equity firm Carlyle Group is understood to have registered interest in taking a stake in mail order food company Graze.
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NewsSunday trading plans attacked by Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King
Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King has slammed Government plans to extend Sunday trading hours permanently, telling them it is not the “magic answer” to solving the UK’s economic problems.
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NewsOcado chief executive Tim Steiner plots price war
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner has revealed plans to accelerate growth by challenging its rival grocers to a price battle through price promotions over the next year.
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OpinionComment: No place for class divides today
Imagine getting an email from the bank saying that, as you’ve only got £50 in your account, it’s not worth showing you its full range of services. Or a train company deciding that, because you paid the lowest fare, it won’t tell you what’s in the dining car.
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NewsOlympics boosts John Lewis sales 14.9%
Department store John Lewis sales surged 14.9% to £60.8m last week as Olympic fever once again boosted sales.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Co-op’s battle continues as new era dawns
With its boss stepping down amid challenging market conditions and falling sales, can the Co-op reverse its decline and continue to compete against the big four?
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OpinionBlog: Asda's Andy Clarke is a good sport
Asda boss Andy Clarke was man of the match today while reporting his team’s thrashing of the competition at its quarterly results.
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NewsAsda blasts 'gimmick' promotions by rivals
Asda chiefs have issued a broadside against the grocer’s main rivals over “gimmick” price promotions.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is Asda outstripping the competition?
Asda reported an edge up in like-for-like sales today. Retail Week takes a look at where Asda sits against its rivals.