Tesco shoppers who order before 9am can now pick up their groceries from midday onwards. This extends an existing service that sees customers order by 1pm for pick up from 4pm, and will be available from more than 300 sites across the UK, Monday to Saturday. The move comes as more of the supermarket’s shoppers… Read more »
The supermarket giant has made its PayQwiq service available in every UK store, including its Extra, Metro and Express formats, following “positive feedback” from shoppers during an initial trial.
Tesco is testing contactless, paperless receipts in two stores in Harlow, Essex, sending them to the user’s Tesco app instead, as the retailer looks to make its whole check out process more digital.
Tesco has outlined its plans to improve its customers’ experience across sales channels, as it reported a rise in sales but a 28 per cent drop in pre-tax profits in its half year results.
Tesco has upped its delivery offer with the introduction of same-day click and collect.
Tesco released its latest trading statement admitting that online sales growth had slowed in the first quarter of its financial year, compared to the same time last year. Like for like sales however continued to grow.
Tesco has announced an agreement to sell its Harris + Hoole coffee shops, less than four years after investing in the launch of the business and a few months after taking full control.
Amazon it is to offer its Prime members same-day deliveries on a range of 130,000 fresh and frozen grocery items, adding another threat to the already beleaguered grocery market.
Tesco has said it is working towards a single online platform for its customers, as it unveiled a return to profit and to sales growth. The supermarket said it had been important to invest in its customer offer in order to become more competitive in “a challenging, deflationary and uncertain market.”
Tesco is to cut 24-hour trading in 76 of its 400 all night trading stores, as growth in ecommerce has diminished the need for such services.
November 27th saw the Ecommerce Club’s first Working Lunch in Dublin. Andy Beale, New Retail Systems Manger, Tesco Plc was kind enough to join us in an exploration of strategic roadmaps for the development of retail platforms.
Aldi has announced it plans to launch online shopping in 2016, taking on Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons in ecommerce, as the discount supermarket reported record UK sales.