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Tesco is introducing a new subscription service for customers ordering groceries online.
The Delivery Saver service, which launches nationwide today, offers the supermarket’s online customers the option to pay once and have groceries delivered at no extra cost for either a three-month or a six-month period.
Tesco claims that shoppers signing up for six months could save up to £100 on delivery charges, based on one £6 delivery per week and one extra delivery for a special occasion.
Ken Towle, internet retailing director at Tesco, explained: "We listened to what our customers told us they wanted, and Delivery Saver is the result. It’s simple to use and will save money at a difficult time for many families. Customers can choose from all available delivery slots, so shopping arrives at the most convenient time. Best of all, if you get regular home deliveries it will quickly pay for itself – and the more you use the service, the more you save."
Tesco said the nationwide roll-out of Delivery Saver follows a successful trial with its customers in the South West, covering 37 stores.
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New Tesco delivery scheme helps customers save up to £100 - Talking Retail
Tesco has announced plans to give customers savings of up to £100 on their online food shopping, thanks to a new subscription service for delivery.
Delivery Saver, which has launched nationwide, offers Tesco.com customers across the UK the option to pay once and have groceries delivered at no extra cost for either a three-month or a six-month period.
Shoppers signing up for six months could save up to £100 on delivery charges, based on one £6 delivery per week and one extra delivery for a special occasion.
Ken Towle, internet retailing director at Tesco, said: “We listened to what our customers told us they wanted, and Delivery Saver is the result. It’s simple to use and will save money at a difficult time for many families.
“Customers can choose from all available delivery slots, so shopping arrives at the most convenient time. Best of all, if you get regular home deliveries it will quickly pay for itself – and the more you use the service, the more you save.”
Tesco is the first supermarket to offer this service on a nationwide scale, which is part of the supermarket’s wider investment into its UK business and into online shopping. The supermarket is leading the way in the new era of retailing with innovations that make shopping easier and more convenient for its customers.
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New Morrisons store for Torquay - This is South Devon
SUPERMARKET giant Morrisons has confirmed it plans to open a store in Torquay, creating 200 jobs.
It comes as three or four other major food retailers are said to be measuring up the outskirts of Torbay for hypermarkets.
Morrisons wants to take over the former DIY warehouse (pictured) in Babbacombe Road and turn it into a new Fresh Format food store.
Tesco has already submitted an application for a much larger 7,149 square metre supermarket on Edginswell Business Park on the outskirts of Torquay.
And Sainsbury's are proposing to expand their Ring Road site at Paignton. Though an application has yet to be submitted it is understood it could be as large as their store at the Willows, Torquay.
Steve Parrock (pictured), chief executive of Torbay Development Agency, revealed at the company's first annual meeting that the former Nortel site could also be another location considered for a hypermarket, and there may be other sites as well.
He told the 80 to 100 business people present: "It's quite clear after meeting the major food retailers on a regular basis that there are a number of applications for hyperstores pending out on the Ring Road. The prospects at the moment are that we will have three or four major food retailers building on the Ring Road.
"There could be a real threat and challenge to our traditional town centres which we will need to address.
"The way we are addressing it is to work through our neighbourhood planning forums and to develop strategies with those forums on what they would like to see developed in their town centres and on the approaches to their towns."
Concerning the Brixham Tesco plan, he said they were waiting a new proposal from the company following the public consultation.
Mr Parrock said: "The developer has appointed new architects to bring forward a new design. I would like to see what that design is before passing any further judgement."
Former Torbay mayoral candidate Dennis Brewer asked whether the new Government planning framework would help Torbay defend itself against bids by major food retailers for hypermarkets on the outskirts of the Bay's towns.
Mr Parrock said: "There is no definitive answer. We have to use the toolkit we are given to promotion regeneration where we want it, and to deflect it where we don't want it. The prospects of having a number of food hypermarkets on the Ring Road is something I think Torbay Council and the TDA will spend a lot of time talking about over the next six to 12 months."
He warned that if they were to 'deflect' unwelcome applications Torbay would need deliverable policies in the town centre.
He said: "Our focus needs to be on the neighbourhood planning forums and putting strategies into the core strategy so we know what it is and where it is people want regeneration for the next five, 10 to 15 years."
Morrisons plans to comprehensively refurbish the former Babbacombe Road store. The company is holding a consultation exhibition for the public to view the proposal, prior to submitting a planning application. The exhibition will be held at the Scout Hut, Walls Hill Quarry, Babbacombe Road, on Friday, June 15 from 1pm to 7pm, and Saturday, June 16, 10am to 2pm.
On display will be full details, including plans and computer-generated images, and representatives from Morrisons and the professional team will be on hand to answer questions. Morrisons development executive Robin Langford, said: "We are delighted to have the opportunity to develop a stunning all-new 'Fresh Format' concept store which will create more than 200 local job opportunities. We hope for a good turnout at the event."
Otter Nurseries say they will continue to trade on the site.
Source: www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
Tesco mulls roll out of F&F fashion stores - Marketing Week
Tesco could roll out standalone F&F fashion stores in the UK if the London pop-up trial launched this week is a success, as part of its overarching efforts to boost non-food sales.
The supermarket will assess the enthusiasm for the pop-up shop that launched in London this week to raise awareness of the F&F range to London shoppers and encourage Londoners to use its online clothing site.
Speaking to Marketing Week at the launch of the F&F pop-up shop in Covent Garden Emily Shamma, Tesco Clothing online director, says: “We never say never and things like this [pop-up] show that we’re testing what we can do with the brand. It wouldn’t be in the next couple of months but this is a trial and it helps us understand what we can do, and what customers think of product in different environments.”
“We’ve always been very proud of F&F as a brand but we’re recognising that we can do more with that. It’s a very international brand that’s successful in Europe and Asia so we want to harness our ability to stand as a global fashion brand.”
The supermarket currently has F&F stores in Poland. Czech Republic and Saudi Arabia.
Shamma adds that the pop-up, which only allows shoppers to buy products via iPads connected to its online platform or via smartphones and QR codes, shows how important online is to Tesco for future growth.
“We’ve realised we’re only just scratching the surface of what [online] can do for us. We’re trying to build awareness of the fact that we have a really great online platform across all our businesses including food, clothing and non-food,” she says.
The F&F pop-up also signals Tesco’s openness to testing “brave” new concepts as part of CEO Philip Clarke’s strategy to improve its UK business and make it more relevant for customers.
Shamma says: “You could spend weeks and months worrying whether it’s the right thing to do, but actually what you’ve got to do is go out, trial it, get customer feedback then you’ve got to decide that its not right for you now, or that if you tweak it you could do more with it, or its fantastic and you can roll it out further.
“That’s what trials are about. You’ve got to trial, you’ve got to be brave and do new things then customers will tell you whether they’re working or not.”
Source: www.marketingweek.co.uk
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