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Author: Leigh Sparks
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Category Archives: Hypermarkets
The Future of Work in Retailing? Just Walk Out
There has been quite a lot of attention in the last few days on the Amazon Go unit in Seattle being opened to the public. Much has focused on whether this is the end of retail work and how fast … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon Go, Asda, Automation, BRC, Consumers, Contactless, Convenience stores, Employees, Employment, Food Retailing, Hypermarkets, management, Retail Change, Retailers, Sainsbury, Self-Scanning, Tesco, Urban, WH Smith
Tagged Amazon Go, Asda, BRC, Consumers, Contactless, Employees, Full-time, Just Walk Out, management, Retail Employment, Retail work, Sainsbury, Self-checkouts, technology, Tesco, WH Smith
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It’s Tesco Again
I do not know whether to apologise or not for returning to the topic of Tesco – my last post on this generated some really interesting observations – given the acres of news and social media that has been devoted … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Consumer Change, Convenience stores, Hypermarkets, Internet shopping, Online Retailing, Tesco
Tagged Convenience, Hypermarkets, Online, Profit, SFO, Tesco, Trading
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Turmoil at Tesco
Wow, Just Wow. It is almost beyond belief, and there may be more to come yet. I’ve written about the trials and tribulations of Tesco before (here and here for example), but have generally taken the view that a crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Grimsey, Competition, Food Retailing, Hypermarkets, Market Shares, Online Retailing, Profits, Tesco
Tagged Crisis, Market share, Profits, Retailing, Suppliers, Tesco
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50 Years and Counting (Down)?
One of the many problems of getting older is that more and more anniversaries seem to come along and the numbers associated with them get ever more troubling. Next year for example my University will have been announced formally for … Continue reading
Posted in Carrefour, Food Retailing, Hypermarkets, Retail History, Retailing, Wales
Tagged 50 years, Anniversary, Carrefour, France, Hypermarkets, Superstores
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