Posts under ‘retail’

As with the British Empire, TJ Hooker, Premiership football at Southampton and the use of children as chimneysweeps, all good things must come to an end.
 
So it is with a heavy heart that I must reveal this as my final Walmart blog here at Planet Retail before I move on to pastures new. Although [...]

Three apologies to kick off this week’s post:
 
1)     Sorry for not posting for a few weeks
2)     Sorry for banging on about my trip to Canada again
3)     Sorry for my new subtle attempts to boost the visitor numbers to this blog*
 
I promise that this will be my final mention of my trip to Canada, as I [...]

As a chain-smoking pot-bellied character with appalling teeth and skin, I’m the last person that has any right to be spouting opinions on health & beauty, but I shall proceed to do so anyway. Part three of the scintillating series chronicling my grand tour of the great and good of Canadian retail sees me casting [...]

The latest eagerly awaited instalment in the award-winning series ‘shops what fat boy went to in Canada’ concerns itself with all things grocery. I’ve been to Canada a few times on business and have seen quite a few grocery outlets in a fairly piecemeal fashion, but my recent odyssey was the first chance I’ve had [...]

My humblest apologies for lack of updates over the last two weeks, but I’ve been enjoying a trip to Canada. And if I’d publicly announced that in advance on a blog, then I’m sure some nefarious bastards would have been round to steal my car, strip the lead off my roof and vandalise the miniature [...]

Continuing my near perfect track record of being out of the country/office when Walmart does anything remotely exciting, Asda announced last week plans to acquire the 193-strong Netto discount chain in the UK from Dansk Supermarked. The transaction will enable Asda to convert the 8,000 square foot stores into Asda branded supermarkets offering approximately 10,000 [...]

The most upsetting thing in Walmart’s quarterly results this week was the confirmation that Walmart Puerto Rico has been moved out of the International division and into the US organisation. Great news for Walmart, I’m sure, but a monumental pain in the backside as far as my giant Walmart spreadsheet is concerned. The spreadsheet, which [...]

A report this week by the excellent journalist and fellow Walmart obsessive Jonathan Birchall at the Financial Times (and apologies in advance for borrowing heavily from the article) states that Eduardo Castro-Wright, the head of Walmart’s US operations, argues that, even with more than 3,000 stores, the retailer has still not run out of room [...]

Asda has this week launched the Asda Price Guarantee – “a cast-iron” promise to shoppers that it cannot, and will not, be beaten on price.

If shoppers can purchase a basket of eight or more comparable products cheaper elsewhere, the retailer will give them the difference, plus a penny more. According to the [...]

After last week’s dismal showing in terms of providing a blog, and in light of the fact that the vengeful volcano gods mean that I’m not attending two conferences in Berlin this week but instead merely sitting at my desk playing online chess and watching Matt Le Tissier goals on Youtube, here’s a real blog.
 
The [...]