Poundland, Europe’s leading single price discount operator, has reported full-year sales growth of 13.3% to £997.8m, driven by new store openings and mature stores. The group opened 70 net new stores in the year to 30 March 2014, taking the year end store number
Morrisons has reported a 7.1% decline in like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, for the 13 weeks to 4 May 2014. Total sales fell by 4.2%. But the supermarket and analysts claim the retailer’s recent price cuts – Morrisons aims to take on discount
For the first time, over half the country shopped in either Aldi or Lidl during the past 12 weeks, the latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel reveal. Data for the 12 weeks ending 8 December 2013 show 50.1% of all
US discount retailer, Family Dollar, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Checkpoint Systems to deploy Checkpoint’s EVOLVE P10 ECO electronic article surveillance (EAS) solutions in all of its existing and future stores. The rollout in Family Dollar’s existing 7,900 stores is
Discount retailer, Poundworld is targeting independent retailers, e-Bay sellers and market traders, with the launch of a discount wholesale website, www.discount-wholesale.co.uk. Launching this week, Poundworld claims the website will help Britain’s small retailers succeed in their business ventures by offering the
In his regular column for Retail Times, Simon Chinn, lead consultant at retail research agency, Conlumino, reviews the new U Express LM format in France, which marries the U Express convenience chain of Systeme U with the discount ranges of
