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• U.S. supers stuck in doldrums

  - 2007-08-13

  A recent article in a Sydney, Australia, newspaper was sharply critical of both the U.S. supermarket industry and America's Federal Trade Commission. The former came under attack for practicing pedestrian, unimaginative and unappealing retailing. The latter was criticized for employing an arbitrarily restrictive definition of "premium natural or organic...

  Tags: food, FTC, Manufacturing, Retail, supermarket, Tesco, U.S., Whole Foods

• Opinion

  - 2007-05-26

  I won't be buying too many spit-roasted chickens from my local supermarket this Bank Holiday weekend, and I don't much fancy houmous either, following this week's BBC Whistleblower documentary. The flouting of procedures, falsifying of records and levels of hygiene exposed variously in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Katsouris and Crown Chicken were...

  Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., documentary, food, Manufacturing, supermarket, Tesco

• IT IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT TO DISPEL OUR SUSPICIONS ABOUT SUPERMARKETS

  - 2006-07-13

  Is it time tor us to learn to love supermarkets? They would certainly like us to. Both Tesco and Asda are planning new 'green' stores, with the use of timber construction simply one of the elements in this fresh approach. Tesco has chosen its site cannilyIs it time tor us...

  Tags: information technology, supermarket, Tesco

• British supermarket Tesco mulls bid for Polish stores

  - 2006-07-09

  LONDON AFP — Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, is considering an 800-million-euro (1.026-billion-dollar) bid for the Polish retail arm of French rival Casino. Tesco and French supermarket group Carrefour are reportedly looking at buying parts of Casino -- particularly the Polish stores, The Business newspaper said on Sunday, citing sources...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Casino, Retail, supermarket, Tesco

• Britain's Tesco sees record profits break 2.0-billion-pounds barrier

  - 2005-04-12

  LONDON AFP — Tesco, the country's biggest supermarket chain, posted record annual results, with underlying pre-tax profits breaking the 2.0-billion-pound barrier for the first time in British retail history. Tesco's underlying profit, which exclude certain one-off costs, climbed 20.5 percent to 2.029 billion pounds (2.956 billion euros, 3.840 billion...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, barrier, supermarket, Tesco

• Trot of bother as pony raids supermarket

  - 2005-01-28

  LONDON AFP — Shoppers at one British supermarket were astonished to find a pony alongside them browsing the shelves, a report said. The Daily Express said Saturday that customers at a Cardiff branch of Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, were joined by a stray Shetland pony which had escaped...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, aisle, supermarket, Tesco

• Food Lion pulls out of Thailand.

  - 2004-08-06

  Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 6--Having lost billions of baht in seven years of trying to establish a presence in Thailand's hotly contested retail market, the Belgian supermarket group Food Lion LLC has thrown in the towel, closing all...

  Tags: Bangkok Post, Fax, FINANCE, Investment, Retail, Strategy, supermarket, Tesco, Thailand

• Driver runs off after crash

  - 2004-07-20

  A driver was seen running away after crashing a car on the ring road in Huddersfield. The Toyota Celica hit railings at Northgate, near the Tesco supermarket, at 11.30pm on Saturday. The driver, a young Asian man, was seen fleeing towards Fartown. Police are still trying to trace him.

  Tags: supermarket, Tesco, Toyota Motor Corp.

• British supermarket giant Tesco sees sales jump

  - 2004-06-18

  LONDON AFP ? Tesco announced a 12.3-percent jump in first-quarter sales as it won market share at home and enjoyed strong growth abroad. In a trading update, Britain's biggest supermarket group reported a 11.1-percent increase in sales in Britain in the 12 weeks to May 22 from the same...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, SALES, supermarket, Tesco

• Auction lifts lid on biscuit tin scandal

  - 2004-04-16

  LONDON AFP ? A decorative biscuit tin picturing a couple having sex in bushes during a formal tea party, which a mischievous artist tried to sneak onto British supermarket shelves, is to be sold at auction, it was announced. The 1970s design was created for British biscuit manufacturers Huntley...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, auction, Palmer, supermarket, Tesco