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Short Tracker today :- MRW 12%, SBRY 10.01, OCADO 9%, Tesco 0.80% If memory serves, these haven't really changed for the last 6 months - any comments?

Thanks - thing is, Tesco started down this path about a year before MRW & I have read of no litigation against Tesco.

About time we played Hardball with this perfidious Government, who's attitude to DRX, is a continuation of what Cam used to do to porkers in his 'Varsity days...

Don't think there is a read across for Tesco, anyone know any different?

My point exactly. 8 bottles of prosecco, £5 of 40 voucher = 4.66 a bottle, profit zero. I think Lidl are near their peak sales growth & making little profit. As peeps feel better off they will return to the Big4 & passup on the bunfight.

Interesting contrast: doing the criss cross tango at the checkout with our haif-width trollies, when 4 pint carton of milk was dropped, suddenly no room to move at all & slippery. The cheap prosecco was jumbled up with nearly identicaly labeled stuff £2.20p dearer as I sorted a few bottles out I realised the box of 6 at the top was wobbling dangerously just managed to grab it in time before it fell on me! It was all stacked ln boxes in the ailse behind a giant crate. This store is so packed now it seems elf & safety are serious issues. MRW was roomy by comparison, I was getting 2 tins of sweets for £7. Reflected that some MRW stores would suit Lidl if they were expanding., just the right size.

Perhaps a larger size in trousers?

Osbourne has stumped up 2 billion for their vanity Red Nuc. project, to encourage reluctant backers - having said there would be NO subsidy.

It will cost MRW proportionately more than the rest of the Big 4 because they currently pay the least.

Clearly this will hill MRW hardest of the Big4 & the reason why Potts said it will cost them tens of millions.

Nonsense - the contract is clear enough. It is Waitrose who could leave OCADO or re-negotiate a future contract from this month. You might as well suggest employing IBM. IT IS TOO LATE, that is why the 'Deal made in Purgatory', as some have commented. was made.

Fine words butter no parsnips:( Costs HMGOV nothing to raise the MIN.Liv. wage - Most peeps will be WORSE off after tax & NI. MRW's CEO says it will cost them in the tens of millions - so one man's pay rise may be another man's job.

WHOSE Target price? WHY? You are talking twaddle.

Did you mean Sales - as foreign owned companies they do not disclose Profits.

Last one was misleading. Some question the wisdom of using the canny millionares with matching foreheads to talk savings on your shopping:) 140 M stores have been sold for £25 m - a loss of about £30 m from the selloff. 5 retained.

They are to be sold off as a job-lot because the are in CRAP locations. Obvious stumbling block to mega bid.

Rocky: After wasting 62million fiddlng with kiddie stores online - how else could Dolton hope to catch up with rivals who had been Online for decades?

Laughable to pretend Dolton had any other choice than this 20yr prohibitively expensive tie-up. IMO, TSCO is aiming to increase the profitability of it's Online store based business - hence unloading its food store. Ocado has yet to make a profit after years of operation, I believe, tho this may change this year thanks to Dolton's pricey deal.

- is when you have to cut off the arm (convieniance stores, only Big 4 growth area) to save the patient... All Dolton's big ideas now reversed except Gold brick Ocado...

ASDA & MRW losing more Market Share than Tesco - latest news. Fruity, did you buy just before the M Store firesale announcement??