Tesco is Britain’s biggest retailer, operating grocery businesses in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Tesco has grown to more than 3,000 stores in its core British market, operating across a number of concepts including its Extra hypermarkets, superstores and smaller Express and convenience formats, as well as online via Tesco.com. In addition to its core grocery business, Tesco owns the F&F clothing label. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Tesco and the grocery sector.
Supermarket giant Tesco has launched a “large scale” trial of a new AI assistant, designed to “lighten the load for customers” when it comes to meal planning.
As the cost of paid social marketing rises, we’ve teamed up with Sprout Social to show you the retailer social media posts with the highest earned media value (EMV). In other words, what the brand exposure of a post is worth in cash.
Like-for-like grocery inflation held at 4.3% for the second month in a row, Worldpanel by Numerator said, though financial anxiety is running high in the UK.
With the sector staggering from one crisis to the next over the last six years of ‘permacrisis’, Retail Week looks at whether many retailers and brands have simply forgotten the fundamentals of the business.
Tesco has invested more than £200m in an above-average pay increase of 5.1% for store colleagues, starting from March 29.
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