2009 was a relatively quiet year for the major food retailers, insofar as any year could be said to be so for companies that are so large and so dominant not just in their own sector, but in UK retailing as a whole.After the campaign of vilification in the media in 2007 and the Competition Commission report that, on the whole, gave the market leaders a clean bill of ...
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Aldi Stores Ltd (UK)
Asda Group
Co-operative Group (Food)
Iceland Foods
J Sainsbury
Marks & Spencer (Food)
Schwarz Group (UK)
SPAR International
Tesco
Waitrose
Wm Morrison Group
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18th August 2011
"Real-terms negative growth in food retail is expected to remain in the medium term. Given these circumstances, promotions will have to remain central to retailers’ activities, despite recent claims that the level of discounting is unsustainable." 
31st May 2011
"Retailers cannot count on traditional, conventional shopping habits, and need to respond to changing consumer behaviour by offering greater appeal to small-basket, selective shoppers."
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Online shopping is growing fast, but it still only accounts for 3.7% of all food retailers sales and 85% of sales go through the sites of the market leaders. But 8.5 million people (17%) say they buy online at least occasionally, far too large a number for any food retailers to ignore, so all of the majors must stay in the market if only to protect their market share.
