All Lidl articles – Page 53
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Opinion
Are discount grocers the new black?
Aldi and Lidl are no longer dirty words for the majority of consumers. In the same way that Primark was once sneered at, discount grocers are becoming fashionable. The question is, how long can it be sustained?
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News
Discounters triumph as shoppers trade down
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.
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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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Opinion
Discounters have a chance to turn shoppers for good
Shoppers are voting with their feet and figures released this week show that consumer spend in discount supermarkets has reached record levels.
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News
Grocers’ shares tumble as shoppers embrace discounters
TNS data showing rapid market share growth by hard discounters contributed to a fall in the share prices of quoted grocers. Meanwhile, general stores slipped still further as trading difficulties – real and imagined – undermined sentiment.
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News
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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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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News
Tesco to equal discounters’ prices
Tesco will match the prices on more than 2,000 Aldi and Lidl product lines, a sign of the grocer’s concern over the rising popularity of its discount rivals.
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News
Tesco to match discounters’ prices
Tesco will match the prices on more than 2,000 Aldi and Lidl product lines, a sign of the grocer’s concern over the rising popularity of its discount rivals.
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News
Lidl opens in Slovakia
German discounter Lidl has opened its first shop in Slovakia. The store is in the Bratislava borough of Petrzalka. Lidl, which operates 5,000 stores across Europe, has not revealed how many stores it plans in the country.
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News
Norway fights back at Lidl
Norwegian grocers are to join forces to take on German discount chain Lidl , which is due to open 65 stores in the country from this summer. They hope to lower costs and improve competitiveness with joint IT and transport venture TakeCargo.
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News
Schwarz tops grocery growth list
German discounter Schwarz Group was the world’s fastest-growing grocery chain last year.