Leroux M. Food Retail Sector Overview. (The Times) Available from: http://www.lloydsbankwholesale.com/insight-and-ideas/food/sector-overview/ [Accessed 25th October 2012]
This article is an item from an online newspaper. It was written by M. Leroux, In this article Leroux provides samples of supermarkets such as, Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, Asda’s and Morrison’s that have matured, inspired and bought confidence to the corporate market. These 4 businesses regulate more than 3 quarters of the market. Leroux briefly indicates that if these supermarkets keep on expanding the market will not be able to sustain. This increase in market could lead to oversupply which then results to price war. This article points out that the expansion of these retail stores can be a negative aspect to the market causing scrutiny with the suppliers, also I believe that the competition between these supermarkets would be stiff and results to many smaller stores closing down.
Julius M. (August 2011) UK food retailer shares looks tastier than thought. (Online) Available from: http://citywire.co.uk/money/uk-food-retailer-shares-look-tastier-than-thought/a516885 [Accessed 21st October 2012]
This is from an online financial newspaper written by Max Julius. The data in this article shows that more Britons are changing to lower-priced stores such as Lidl and Aldi. According to the analysts at Oriel Securities market has been continually reducing the segment over the last 18 months, but belief that the assessment have now found a level at which they are discounting too much bad news. Judging by the way food prices have risen, many shoppers would result to shop in cheaper stores as stated above.
Gladding N. (August 2011) Discounts retail rise in the UK (Online). Available from: http://www.igd.com/index.asp?id=1&fid=1&sid=7&tid=10&cid=2104 [Accessed 26th October 2012]
This is an article written by Nick Gladding as senior business analyst from