Tesco must be applauded for the deal it has struck with US supennarket chain Safeway to export its Internet shopping model. With Safeway adopting the Tesco model of picking goods from stores and abandoning its strategy of using dedicated warehouses for fulfilling online orders, it has signalled that the UK is the recognised world leader in grocery shopping via the Internet.
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MERICA has all too often turned into a graveyard for foreign retailers. But this week a British supermarket chain sped across the Atlantic to teach the Yanks a trick or two. On June 25th Tesco, Britain’s biggest grocer, announced a deal with Safeway, California’s biggest food retailer, to bring its successful Internet shopping service to the United States. Tesco is injecting both its technology and $22m into Grocery
Works, a loss-making online retailer that is majority-owned by Safeway, in return for a 35% stake.
Safeway ditches the warehouse picking system in favour of Tescos store-based system for home delivery
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