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Category Archives: Wal-Mart
Grocery Market Shares in the UK 2020
In July of each year I have recorded the Grcery Market Share of leading retailers in Great Britain as shown by Kantar data. This has been going on since 1997 and I have mentioned this series in this blog before … Continue reading
Posted in Asda, Cooperative Group, Cooperatives, Covid19, Discounters, Food Retailing, Home Delivery, Independents, Internet shopping, Kantar, Lidl, Localisation, Lockdown, Market Shares, Ocado, Online Retailing, Retail Change, Retail Sales, Retailers, Retailing, Tesco, Uncategorized, Wal-Mart
Tagged Aldi, Asda, Co-operatives, Concentration Ratio, Covid-19, Food retailing, Home Delivery, independents, internet retailing, Kantar Worldpanel, Lidl, Lockdown, Market share, Ocado, Tesco, UK Grocery
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“We’re in the Money”
A couple of weeks have gone by since the notion of a merger of Asda and Sainsbury began to be debated in the media. During that time I wondered whether to add to the coverage via this blog or to … Continue reading
Posted in Asda, Booker, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Consumers, Food Retailing, Government, Mergers, Policy, Retail Change, Retailers, Retailing, Sainsbury, Store Closures, Suppliers, Tesco, Wal-Mart
Tagged Asda, Booker, CMA, Competition, FOI, Job Losses, Market share, Retail, Sainsbury, Store Closures, Tesco, Wal-Mart
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FOI on the High Street
I must have been one of the very first people to use the Freedom of Information Act, submitting my request to the Cabinet Office on the very first day possible. OK, it took me several years and a ruling from … Continue reading
Posted in Government, High Streets, Mary Portas, Town Centres, Wal-Mart
Tagged FOI, High Streets, Portas, Town Centres, Wal-Mart
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It was 50 years ago today …
… that Sam Walton opened his first store in the chain that became Wal-Mart. On the 2nd July 1962, Wal-Mart store #1 opened in Rogers, Arkansas. This was not Sam Walton’s first foray into retailing – indeed he had been … Continue reading
Posted in History, Retailers, Wal-Mart
Tagged 50 years, Arkansas, History, Wal-Mart. Opening
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