The distance is about the same. Lidl has a car park, but the criterion is "walking distance".
Maybe Iceland has stuff which is not available elsewhere? ISTR that Bejam had quite a few exclusive lines.
I suppose I'll just have to stroll up the road and find out :-)
Wrong, and on so many levels.
You really don't understand the UK retail market, do you?
You are Alison Hopkins (or whatever her name was) AICMFF namedropping pub bores.
Since that is your response to everybody who disagrees with you, I don't feel inclined to read your posts any more.
They don't own the sites. The parent company does, though. So M&S are now renting the sites from the parent company in many cases.[1]
In the cases where they didn't own the building, neither company has made anything from the disposals.
FWIW, true like for like sales and profits are still up, even if you strip out the stores they disposed of.
[1] During the Baugur takeover, one of Baugur's property companies bought all the leases / properties from both companies. When Iceland and Booker de-merged, Bauger held onto the property portfolio and now charges Booker and Iceland rent on them. Any disposals only make money for Baugur, not for Iceland or Booker.
So, so wrong.
Try again.
ITYM Doch.
Ca suffit.
How on earth can you say that several thousand individually owned shops are failing?
Buenos noches. :)
It's easy.Just press the "send" button.
It's a very easy way of promoting a rumour.
How would you expect the issue of your being out of pocket for fuel and for time to be handled? Would you simply let it go and incur the loss?
Replacement of the product is a given.
If I go to a store to buy a product, I expect it to be as advertised and of good quality. I expect to have to get myself to the store and back. That is a reasonable transaction.
If the product is faulty, then in addition to the above I have to use time (cost) and fuel (cost) to get it replaced. That only takes me to the point of how it should have been in the first place. Quite reasonably, the store, if they have the responsibility should not expect me to incur extra cost to arrive at the point where I would have been had the goods been OK in the first place.
Compensation would imply something over and above this. If the store wishes to do that, then they are acting very smartly, especially if they provide vouchers because I will spend more time there and perhaps buy something else.
Perhaps your former supermarket never thought in these terms?
Sorry, old chap, I'm just not getting your banter. Could you try it a bit slower?
I agree.
The point is to decide on which criteria are important and to select on that basis.
Let's see now.
Somerfield are not in the premium market. That we know.
They are not in the mass market either. What does that leave? Yes, the discount market.
I'm sure you're a bright chap and all, but your reading comprehension sucks.
You've forgotten at least one other market.
Because it's virtually impossible with individually owned stores to achieve meaningful sales growth.
As a result even Tesco has eclipsed on the local store level.
Go on....
Neighbourhood convenience store? If so, that's Aldi's prime (achievable) market.
That he may be, but he's got you sussed bang to rights.
We upset her a bit, bless.
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