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X5 Retail Group Opens 11,500th Store In Russia

Russian retailer X5 Retail Group has announced the opening of its 11,500th store, a Karusel hypermarket located in the city of Samara. With an area...

E.Leclerc Retains Leadership Position, As Carrefour Narrows Gap

E.Leclerc’s position as France’s leading grocer has been cut back slightly, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel market share data for the...

Asda Sees Like-For-Like Sales Up 1.1% In Third Quarter

UK retailer Asda has posted a 1.1% increase in like-for-like sales in the third quarter of its financial year, with net sales rising 3.6%. The results,...

Wal-Mart Growth Hits Post-Recession High As It Chases Amazon

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. delivered its strongest U.S. sales gain in more than eight years, helping it keep pace with rival Amazon.com Inc. as the crucial holid...

Poland’s Eurocash Group Posts 7% Growth In Q3 Sales

Poland-based Eurocash Group has said that its consolidated net sales for the third quarter of 2017 stood at PLN 6.2 billion (€1.47 billion), which rep...

Sonae MC Sees Like-For-Like Sales Stable In Q3

Sonae MC, Portuguese operator Sonae’s food retail division, posted a like-for-like sales increase of 0.1% in the third quarter of the year, with like...

Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time

For the past year, Amazon employees have been test driving Amazon Go, an experimental convenience store in downtown Seattle. The idea is to let consumers w...

Scottish Minimum-Unit-Pricing Decision ‘A Sad Day For Internal Market’

Spirits Europe, a representative group for the European alcoholic spirits sector, has said that today’s decision by the Scottish Supreme Court to giv...