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• Serve Yourself, Says Tesco. But Do You Want To?

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  Tesco's opened a totally self-service shop. So is it just a matter of time before retailers dispense with people altogether? by Martyn Drake

  Tags: Tesco, Retail, Martyn Drake

• Tesco's Fresh & Easy Enjoying Fruits of Its Summer of Enhancements

  BNET - 2009-09-29

  Fresh & Easy has had a busy summer, as the evidence of its revised website suggests, not to mention a slew of new product introductions and resort to old as well as new media. Revised has a two-fold meaning in this case. On the one hand, the...

  Tags: Food, Brand, Tesco, Media, Retail Company, Retail, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mike Duff

• Fresh & Easy Sales Jump in Tesco Turn Around

  BNET - 2009-06-16

  Tesco sales in the United States gained 174 percent in the latest quarter and it’s claiming traffic gains as an international strategy to provide lower priced products seems to be paying off. In announcing first quarter sales, Tesco said it had regained some momentum. Comparable stores sales...

  Tags: Tesco, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Retail, Sales, Mike Duff

• Tesco, Game: The Fortunes of the Few Won't Help the Many

  BNET - 2009-04-22

  The stellar results coming from the retail sector over the last couple of days might cause you to wonder what all the fuss is about over the economy and it's certainly good for the retailers concerned, but is it helping the sector as a whole? Yesterday, Tesco...

  Tags: Game, Tesco, Retail Company, Retail, Government, Julian Goldsmith

• Labor Act Hits Wal-Mart Prematurely

  BNET - 2009-03-14

  Call it the Employee Free Choice Act or the card check bill, but if new legislation amending labor laws to make it easier for unions to organize does squeeze through the United States Senate, it could have some interesting and unintended consequences for Wal-Mart, among others. The...

  Tags: Union, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tesco, UFCWU, Food & Beverage, Benefits, Retail, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Mike Duff

• Tesco Covets the Cost Conscious, So Fresh & Easy Bulks Up Bargains

  BNET - 2009-03-13

  Clearly, Fresh & Easy has positioned the 98-cent Produce Packs to be a bargain that will stick in the customer’s mind and convince one and all that it offers a better alternative to canned and frozen fruits and vegetables even for those keeping tight hold of money these days. by...

  Tags: Tesco, Store, Bargain, Retail, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Mike Duff

• Tesco Approaching 120 Fresh & Easy Stores, Despite Challenges

  BNET - 2009-01-22

  Despite experiencing some bumps in the road, Tesco’s Fresh & Easy operation is poised to reach 120 stores in the United States by the time the company’s financial year ends in February, which puts it about a third of the way to profitability. Based on earlier company...

  Tags: Tesco, Store, Retail, Food & Beverage, Financial Accounting, Manufacturing, Finance, Mike Duff

• Dunnhumby Complicates Outlook for Tesco, Kroger, Wal-Mart

  BNET - 2009-01-13

  Tesco is a mighty retailer, fourth largest in the world, but, even with its expansion in the United States continuing, it might not turn out to be the nightmare for Wal-Mart that some, particularly observers in Britain, expected it to be. Kroger, however, could turn into a...

  Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tesco, Dunnhumby, Kroger, Retail, Sales Strategy, Sales, Mike Duff

• Fresh & Easy Just a Pale Imitation of Trader Joe's

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-30

  Joel West submits: Earlier today, we visited our first Fresh & Easy store. The specialty grocery chain is the first US market entry by the British retail giant Tesco TESO, which has committed $2 billion over five years to the effort. When we planned on going, my mother-in-law...

  Tags: Retail, Joel West, Tesco, Whole Foods Market

• Tesco admits planning bid in guise of independent store

  - 2008-06-28

  Tesco has made it dear it does not own any other independent retailers after admitting it was the owner of the apparently 'independent' Brian Ford's Discount Store in Barnstaple, Devon. The multiple was forced to reveal it owned the store this week after its plans to build a 60,000...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, MARKETING, Retail, Tesco