US food retailers ponder downsizing
By: Ben Cooper | 26 September 2008
Wal-Mart is following the lead set by Tesco by testing a smaller, neighbourhood supermarket concept in the US, and the retail giant is not the only grocer to be moving in this direction. Ben Cooper reports.
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Wal-Mart is following the lead set by Tesco by testing a smaller, neighbourhood supermarket concept in the US, and the retail giant is not the only grocer to be moving in this direction. Ben Cooper reports.
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