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...warehouses....
...But discretion was at last the better part of valour for two US buyout groups vying for Wm Morrison....
...It also limits grocers’ ability to attract the promotional spending and rebates from consumer goods suppliers that are a key part of supermarket economics. Here lies the opportunity....
...“Digital technology has now penetrated every part of our lives.”...
...The first Amazon Fresh supermarket opened last September in an upmarket part of Los Angeles....
...The petrol station billionaires buying Asda are planning to sell the supermarket’s garages to their own EG Group, arrange a sale and lease back of its warehouses and raise £3.5bn in debt to fund the transaction...
...At the back end, Reliance will fulfil orders for shops from its own warehouses....
...supermarkets across the world in spite of the obvious risks....
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...Not all parts of the business, which employs more than 3,000 people across five continents, have had an easy time, though....
...help them better organise routes and warehouses....
...Since May, it has unveiled a series of initiatives to strengthen its hand in ecommerce, the grocery industry’s next battleground....
...Ocado, which began the new millennium as an upmarket online grocer, added close to £1bn to its market value this week after convincing Casino, a French supermarket group, to build a robotic warehouse similar...
...industry....
...Kroger, one of the world’s biggest supermarket chains, had 9.2 per cent wiped from its share price to $22.29....
...But in other industries, some companies are using the crisis as an opportunity for expansion....
...For example, Nigeria, which is not part of Mr Krummenacher’s remit, is estimated to have 8m people in its middle class....
...When Game ultimately opened its Kenyan doors last week, they revealed something more akin to a wholesalers’ warehouse than a flashy modern supermarket....
...By 1990, Mr Stemberg’s disruptive bright idea had spawned dozens of lookalike office supply warehouses....
...and warehouse clubs....
...“We believe Ocado may be able to sell part of its technology and not the entire business,” said HSBC....
...He chose not to return and considered joining the anti-apartheid armed struggle, but instead started work in a supermarket warehouse....
...They analyse data showing that nearly nine in 10 jobs in the Chinese textile industry are provided by medium-sized or large firms, giving them an advantage in export markets....
...Costco, the supermarket warehouse club, reported a 6 per cent rise in August sales....
...Elsewhere, supermarkets have also muscled into the group’s core market of items such as DVDs, which still accounted for 45 per cent of HMV’s sales at the start of the year....
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