27 Nov 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Supermarket chain Safeway is pulling the plug on its online operations because it wants...online and have it delivered to their homes.
Separately, in April this year the store launched its Collect service across eight stores in England and Scotland, which allowed customers to do their shopping online and pick it up later from stores.
However, the wine service stopped in August when ...
25 Jun 2001
| by Louise Banbury
LONDON - Tesco has announced plans to expand its online retailing operation in the US through a...Under the terms of the agreement, Tesco will buy 35% of Safeway's online shopping business ...
under the Safeway brand within six months. Tesco said it would set up and manage the online business based on its current store-based home-shopping model. The original Groceryworks venture came up against ...
14 Dec 2004
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Some of the country's biggest online supermarket shopping services are being questioned...charged online were higher than in their stores.
Other allegations made are that supermarkets use online shopping to offload products that are close to their sell-by dates, and that there are problems ...
it was examining supermarket pricing online, but said that, because it was an ongoing process, it would not name ...
25 Jul 2000
| by Camilla Palmer
shopping service within the next year, following a deal which gives it a 40% stake in online consortium...LONDON (Brand Republic) - The John Lewis Partnership says its Waitrose supermarket division will roll out an internet shopping service within the next year, following a deal which gives it a 40% stake in online consortium Last Mile Solutions.
John Lewis has invested 35m in LMS, which will develop ...
23 Aug 2000
Tesco plans to offer its online shopping service in Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand....LONDON (Brand Republic) - Tesco plans to offer its online shopping service in Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand.
However, the company is evaluating whether there are enough internet users in these areas before committing to a schedule.
Tesco has 24 retail stores in Thailand, but only two stores in South ...
13 Aug 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - Tesco is to expand its growing online shopping operation into South Korea, where...The online shopping operation in Korea will follow the same model employed by Tesco in the UK ...
of broadband internet access and the high number of Koreans who shop online.
It is estimated that around 20% of South Koreans buy their groceries online, compared with a small fraction in the UK.
...
20 Sep 2010
| by John Reynolds
Ocado, the online shopping company, is to launch its own-label food range later this year....The online retailer, which recently listed on the stock market to great fanfare, is planning to start with around 200 own-label lines.
Currently, Ocado has a deal with Waitrose to sell its goods, which prevents commercial partnerships with other supermarkets.
The own-label products will run ...
23 Apr 1998
| by LYNNE ROBERTS
Thresher Wine Shop is the latest retailer to join LineOne s online
shopping mall. The Thresher...Thresher Wine Shop is the latest retailer to join LineOne s online
shopping mall. The Thresher Wine Shop site can be found at
thresher.LineOne.net.
...
27 Dec 2010
| by Staff
Online retailers enjoyed a welcome boost following a December blighted by weather...Traditional High Street brands dominated the UK's top 20 most visited retail outlets, in figures from Experian Hitwise, joined by online giants including eBay, Amazon and iTunes.
Hitwise recorded ...
stores and shopping centres across the UK yesterday alone.
The British Retail Consortium estimates 5 ...
25 Nov 2003
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Sainsbury's will push its online shopping service, Sainsbury's to You, for the first time...Slatter, head of online marketing for Sainsbury's, said: "This is the first time we have advertised online shopping nationally. We hope the ad will encourage more shoppers to shop online and make shopping ...