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Your guide to the UK supermarkets
online
Not all the supermarkets listed
on this page offer the ability to buy goods online, though
all of them offer informative sites with useful features
such as store locators and product guides. You should
also check on the respective web sites whether grocery
deliveries can be made to your area (this will vary).
Supermarkets...for more information use links below:
Britain's supermarket landscape
has undergone sweeping changes as Morrisons completed
its £3bn ($5.2bn) takeover of rival grocer Safeway.
The move brings to an end one of the most keenly contested
UK acquisition struggles in recent years.
Bradford-based Morrisons sparked a bid battle for Safeway
last year after launching a £2.9bn offer for the
firm.
It claimed victory after the government ruled against
rival supermarket group bids on competition concerns.
New look
Britain's big three supermarket chains - Tesco, Asda and
Sainsbury's - all made counter offers for Safeway, along
with billionaire retail entrepreneur Philip Green.
Morrisons' takeover of Safeway - which will give the grocer
a bigger slice of the market in southern England - increases
the pressure on Sainsbury's for third place in the UK
supermarket rankings.
The enlarged group will operate more than 550 stores,
and plans are already in place to rebrand many of the
larger Safeway stores as Morrisons.
The group is also considering converting nearly 180 medium
size Safeway stores into a "Morrisons Compact"
brand, to challenge the likes of Tesco and Sainsburys
which operate smaller branded town centre outlets. |
