All Grocery Retail articles – Page 9
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Online
Co-op launches £160m expansion plan
Co-op Group has announced plans to open 100 new food stores in 2018 as part of a £160m expansion plan in the UK.
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Insight
Christmas 2017 is less about the hard numbers and more about the bigger picture
Surprisingly strong retail sales figures for November played second fiddle to inflation figures at the end of 2017. Plenty of ‘shock horror’ sentiment that inflation hit a six year high of 3.1% in November, precious little of the fact that retail sales grew by 4.6% despite a very demanding year-on-year ...
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Online
Supermarket REIT secures £50m Scottish Tesco Extra
Supermarket Income REIT has acquired a Tesco Extra supermarket in North Lanarkshire from Legal General for £50m.
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Insight
Grocery retailing no longer the 'ugly duckling' of property
I read with interest Simon Creasey’s report on the implications Amazon’s recent move into bricks mortar . It is just one example of how the past few weeks have shown the grocery market’s reputation as a fast-moving, fiercely competitive sector is well and truly deserved
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Insight
Amazon is less slayer and more saviour of food retail property
When Amazon announced its intention to acquire top-end American grocery chain Whole Food Markets (WFM) for just $14bn (£10.7bn) last month, the facial expressions of a lot of real estate magnates with a presence in the retail space would have been interesting to see.
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Markets
Amazon’s move into bricks and mortar spooks supermarkets
When online retail behemoth Amazon announced that it had bought organic food chain Whole Foods Market for $13.7bn (£10.6bn) last month, it sent shock waves through the financial markets.
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Information
Boom in retail parks anchored by grocery discounters
The number of out-of-town (OOT) retail schemes anchored by discount grocery retailers has rocketed in recent years, Savills research reveals.
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Markets
Supermarket chains forced to hone their juggling skills
It’s official: the supermarket space race is finally over. Figures published by the Local Data Company (LDC) last month showed the number of stores operated by the ‘big four’ grocery chains fell in 2016 - the first such decline since the LDC started tracking them in 2008.