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Europe's Posts Build e-Commerce Services
Europe’s post offices are trying to leverage their mail-delivery and other services to make a mark on the Internet. With their combination of delivery networks and banking services, post offices across Europe are uniquely positioned to be key e-commerce players. And many are moving to add Internet-based services.
Read MoreSafeway (US) to use Tesco e-commerce system
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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 (US) buys Tesco e-system
Safeway ditches the warehouse picking system in favour of Tescos store-based system for home delivery
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