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...The airline had initially signed up to a stock merger with Frontier Group, a similar deep discounter like Spirit....
...I wonder if having a bigger supermarket competitor squaring off against Walmart and other big box discounters might actually make the market healthier, but I don’t know how you figure this out in advance...
...Eventually, they would tire of holding cumbersome, zero-interest cash, and put it to use. Velocity would rise again. And in the 1960s and 1970s, several measures of velocity did indeed look stable....
...The discounter, which started life in Germany in the 1960s, also appears to have succeeded where other foreign rivals failed....
...During the 1980s, low interest rates and a stock market bubble fuelled a Japanese buying spree of trophy US assets like the Pebble Beach golf course, Columbia Records, Firestone Tire and InterContinental...
...Letter in response to this article: Overseas M&A forms backbone of Japan Inc / From Kiminori Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan...
...And on the margin, supermarkets are losing share, but again not much given how much they usually lose [to big discounters] in downturns....
...Among the early adopters are IBM, Danone USA and Pirelli Tire North America....
...Morrisons has lost grocery market share this year, especially to discounters Aldi and Lidl, which have encroached heavily on its northern heartlands and also target value-conscious shoppers....
...The remainder comes from the retailing of health and beauty products and personal care staples, a market that has grown increasingly competitive as supermarkets and discounters have expanded their ranges...
...But markets will eventually tire of waiting. (Ethan Wu) One good read Ah, youth....
...Supermarkets and “variety discounters” such as B&M and Home Bargains have been undercutting it on staples such as deodorant, shaving products and toiletries, while online rivals and department stores are...
...Boots has tightened pricing and improved its popular loyalty scheme to curtail market share losses to supermarkets and variety discounters....
...More are now shopping at discounters, from Walmart to Aldi and Lidl. They also favour the ordinary and familiar over the experimental....
...Walgreens once again said that Boots had taken market share from other retailers such as supermarkets, department stores and discounters, which compete vigorously with Boots in areas such as personal goods...
...Although I am a gift-giving monopolist, it will always be day one at Santa Inc....
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...CD&R claims experience of UK retail with both B&M, the pile-’em-high discounter, and a collection of petrol station convenience shops....
...That looks closer to US discounters. Sales at stores that remained open in the last quarter of calendar 2020 were up 5.5 per cent, which augers well for growth....
...The cornerstone buys from major institutional investors and boost to the $1bn Fix Price initially sought at a $6bn valuation reflects confidence in its discounter model at a time when Russia’s slumping economy...
...The target struggles to fend off discounters. Couche-Tard proudly boasts an average return on capital employed of 15.4 per cent since 2011. Paying a premium for Carrefour would put that under strain....
...Grocery is a low-margin business and discounters Aldi and Lidl have further squeezed the sector....
...Pepco’s sales are likely to exceed £3bn in the current financial year, meaning that in revenue terms it is not far behind B&M, the listed discounter that joined the FTSE 100 last year....
...The combined group would have been the third-biggest retailer globally after Walmart and Schwarz Group, which owns German discounter Lidl....
...companies with very different formats and geographical footprints into a retailing giant worth more than $50bn and the third-largest grocer globally behind Walmart and Schwarz Group, which owns German discounter...
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