Tesco Share Discussion Threads

[1carus] 28/8/2017 13:33

I have a Lidl and a Tesco opposite each other. I buy from either but in general Tesco more often. I only want to shop once, so unless I am doing a limited shop my default is the one with the most range. The same will be true for shopping at Amazon, wouldn't bother unless I got the whole shopping cart.
Total online grocery sales was about 4% of total sales last time I looked: it will be expensive to put in a chilled/frozen distribution network to cover equivalent single digit sales percentages. The multiples have this for free effectively both at depots and stores.

[cocker] 27/8/2017 19:08

Well said tenpin. Buywell, not really sure that Amazon will indeed hit UK supermarkets as you predict. However, free delivery, cheaper & better quality almost impossible to do in any business. The fact remains most of us still prefer to hand pick what we want.

[tenapen] 27/8/2017 18:42

Were you a sad lemming? The great Lidl Prosecco queue phenomenon causes bafflement in Gloucestershire

[ignoble] 26/8/2017 18:21

I'm thinking that way too
If I wasn't so cautious on the overall direction of Stock Markets , Tesco tempt me
Maybe the guys at the top are smarter than perhaps they have been credit for.

Tough time for any retail though

[cocker] 26/8/2017 17:43

Amazon might take some market share, but it only has to look at Walmart's purchase of Asda to see how hard it is. I believe that given time we might just realise what a shrewd move it was to buy Booker.

[tenapen] 26/8/2017 10:10

The amazon story is 'possibly' a good news story !.

They have the money to sell products at a loss for a long time ! but the fact that they are having to 'slash' their prices tells us the new venture into food retail isn't going well.

As usual the telegraph can not see the good news.

[philanderer] 25/8/2017 13:22

'British supermarkets sent reeling after Amazon slashes prices at Whole Foods'

[vaneric1] 25/8/2017 12:52

Costcutter is one of the groups that's been unloading stores for some time, our locals, one closed down the other taken over by the Co-op adding to the Co-op's near monopoly in the town.

[philanderer] 25/8/2017 10:48

'UK supermarkets slip after Amazon decision to cut prices at Whole Foods'

[philanderer] 25/8/2017 10:04

Yesterday Costcutter, the UK's second largest convenience store chain, joined the fray. Sir Michael Bibby, managing director of Costcutter's owner Bibby Line, said in a letter to franchisees that the group had been "exploring all available opportunities" regarding a possible "collaboration".

It was not clear from Sir Michael's letter whether Costcutter aims to find a buyer or take over another group, or arrange a new supply deal as Morrisons did earlier this month with McColl's.

He said the exploration of other options was a direct response to the Tesco Booker deal.

[cocker] 25/8/2017 08:54

Amazon will hit all, but traditional "you pick it off the shelf ", will stay for some time yet. Albeit in the form of express stores or the bigger super markets. My wife has done on line groceries probably 20 times in the last few years, almost every time she complains of the dates or quality of the food, but rarely from Tesco. Walmart have tried it & as yet have failed, who is to say Amazon won't go the same way.

[shanieboy01] 25/8/2017 08:51

Not amazon. They are not stupid enough to fall for that red herring

[vaneric1] 25/8/2017 08:50

It's doing what it's done for the last several weeks, up Wednesday down Friday as the traders play but the trend is slightly upwards.

[chinese investor] 25/8/2017 08:39

Amazon worries !

[shanieboy01] 25/8/2017 08:02

Stop losses being tested... why

[buywell3] 25/8/2017 07:34

Free delivery to your door too

[philanderer] 24/8/2017 17:38

Thanks graham.


'Tesco, Booker defend tie-up plan, say suppliers will benefit'

[grahamburn] 24/8/2017 11:55

Better detail here

[philanderer] 24/8/2017 11:44

Hilton Food Group, the specialist retail meat packing business headquartered in Cambridgeshire, has signed a long-term supply agreement with Tesco Central Europe to produce fresh food.

[ignoble] 24/8/2017 11:34

I got sickness , upset stomach and a headache from drinking Stella bought in Tesco
Can I claim too ?

[guy_fawkes] 24/8/2017 11:24

We can help you claim for your food poisoning

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[guy_fawkes] 24/8/2017 11:21

The supermarket that unintentionally infected people with a strain of hepatitis has now been identified as Tesco.

Public Health England looked at the shopping habits of 60 people infected with Hepatitis E – or HEV – and found that it was linked to them having eaten sausages and ham from one store, named only as ‘Supermarket X’.

[loganair] 24/8/2017 10:46

Lidl - “Ten million households visited the retailer’s expanding network of stores during the past 12 weeks, with alcohol and fresh produce performing particularly well as the retailer increased sales by 18.9 per cent overall,” said Fraser McKevitt, head of retailer and consumer insight at Kantar.

“Lidl is growing sales 40 per cent faster with families than with households without children. Families tend to buy more items each time they shop, so strong growth with this demographic has helped Lidl to increase its average basket size year on year,” he said.