Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The chain’s value offer and rapidly expanding store network in recent years saw it overtake Morrisons to become the UK’s fourth largest supermarket in 2022. H owever, in April it was reported that it was among the supermarkets resorting to selling shops to bring down its significant debts.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The supermarket now has 229 Asda Express stores across the nation and is on track to open 1,000 throughout the UK and Northern Ireland by March. Asda acquired 132 sites from its rival supermarket Co-op last year under a £438m deal. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Coles’ senior design and innovation manager Pete Rose described the project as turning a “tired shop” into an “incredible” one for the Chadstone shopper. Further, the new store provided Coles with a platform to innovate, a key focus for the supermarket giant. Internally, the project involved “a huge amount” of cross-functional support.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2022

Given all the downfalls of getting it wrong, we asked Louise Grimmer, a senior lecturer in marketing at University of Tasmania, and Phoebe Netto, managing director of Pure Public Relations, to weigh in on what makes for a great April Fools’ Day campaign, and whether it’s worth the effort. According to media reports, it’s not.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

Stores Waitrose is set to open its first supermarket in almost 10 years as the upmarket grocer embarks on an expansion of its store network. Waitrose is also looking to refurbish 80 of its existing supermarkets as part of a near £1bn investment into “renewing and refreshing our shops for our customers”, says Bailey.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2024

At its peak, it was the clear greetings card market leader with over 1,000 stores and a presence in almost every major British town, but a n influx of internet rivals alongside the growing popularity of Card Factory’s value offer resulted in the retailer losing its grip on the industry.

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