Visiting Tehran, President Chavez on Nov. 19 said he supported Iran's suggestion that OPEC crude oils be sold in a basket of currencies rather than US dollars, and the basket should include the euro, the Japanese yen and China's yuan. At a summit of Visiting...
Grocery prices at the big four supermarkets have remained static over the past four weeks, according to The Grocer Price Index. The cost of our secret 100-item shopping basket has dropped by just 0.1% since 8 January. In the previous survey, the GP Grocery...
The results are in--and the past six months have had little impact on the identity of the cheapest supermarket. Despite a concerted effort by Tesco, Asda's impressive pricing record has enabled it to retain a firm grasp on its crown. Asda has clai ...
In soccer parlance the past 12 months represent a year of two halves for The Grocer 33 shopping basket, with the perennial problem of availability still a major issue. Our figures reveal that as the spectre of consolidation in grocery loomed in th ...
While retail price wars have received much business press and some research attention, it is unclear how they affect the major components of retailer performance: store incidence and basket size. Based on consumer hand scan and perceptual data, one analyzes the impact of a recent price war with a multivariate...
NEW YORK -- The country's two largest home textiles mills still have a big presence in hi/low market baskets at the top 10 home textiles retailers, according to Home Textiles Today's third annual market basket report. Springs Industries and W ...
HTT STAFF REPORT NEW YORK -- Whether a factor of deflation or a reaction to consumer sensitivity, spring prices on bedding and bath items fell back in this year's Market Basket survey. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] ...
Availability has been a major factor for The Grocer 33 during the past six months when the UK's leading supermarkets were not able provide a full basket for even half our weekly shopping trips. In fact, the number represented just 40% of our myster ...
Keenly-priced Hardys wine secured this week's cheapest basket for Asda's Metro Park store in Tyne & Wear, squeezing out the chain's store in Norfolk by just 19p. Competition was fierce as six of the eight baskets came back full--Waitrose misse Keenly-priced Hardys wine...
Booth # 2776 * ScanMo racks are a flexible racking system designed for both angled and horizontal placement of its baskets. Baskets and trays storage modules are placed at an angle so that sutures can be used in a gravity feed manner. Products are Booth...
NEW YORK -- The lower have gone higher. Results from Home Textiles Today's second annual Market Basket Survey suggest that retailers have made a relative retreat from last year's heavily promotional environment--at least where a comparison of openi NEW YORK -- The lower have...
Last June The Grocer 33 weekly survey was overhauled to reflect changes in market trends, shopping habits and to take our survey to Northern Ireland for the first time. But over the past six months our shopping basket has come back full less than...
Income earned by U.S. companies doing business abroad is susceptible to double taxation--once by the country in which earned, and again by the U.S. Foreign tax credits FTCs can prevent double taxation, but they have a number of restrictions. One of Income earned by U.S. companies...
Store location: Hillingdon, Uxbridge Date of Shop: 06.03.05 Number of items: 10 Out of stocks: 0 Full basket price: 10.21 [pounds sterling] This week we asked our shopper to visit the BP and Safeway store in Hillingdon,...
Our team of shoppers were asked to trawl the non-alcoholic drinks aisles this week after their festive activities. Asda in Washington completed the double by providing all 10 items on our list as well as its full Grocer 33 basket. But Tesco had the ...
This paper addresses the pricing of multi name credit derivatives and CDO tranches. The purpose is to describe a widely applicable technique for efficiently pricing these products when a large number of credits are involved. The curse of dimensionality is solved thanks to the use of a small number of...
Wal-Mart subsidiary has highest number of cheapest baskets, a consistency unmatched by any other chain Asda is still Britain's cheapest food retailer -- despite facing intense competition from arch rival Tesco. For the fourth year running, the W Wal-Mart subsidiary has...
Five baskets came back full this week as we searched the chillers for 10 dairy items. Tesco in Plymouth checked in the cheapest basket at 11.79 [pounds sterling]. The retailer has a 67% strike rate for full list availability for these...