{"id":19404,"date":"2013-01-10T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T08:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/tesco-sees-sales-1-8-over-festive-period-070749239--finance.html"},"modified":"2013-01-10T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T08:51:59","slug":"tesco-sees-sales-up-1-8-over-festive-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/tesco-sees-sales-up-1-8-over-festive-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco Sees Sales Up 1.8% Over Festive Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Supermarket giant Tesco has seen UK like-for-like sales in the six weeks to January 5 rise by 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>It was the strongest rate of growth for Britain&#8217;s biggest supermarket chain in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Online food sales saw growth of 18% in the period, with more than 500,000 food orders placed in the week before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Philip Clarke said: &#8220;I am pleased with our performance over the important Christmas and New Year period in the UK, which reflects the progress we are making in improving our offer for customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The festive period has been exceedingly competitive for Britain&#8217;s supermarket chain, and while discounter Aldi reported sales up 30% in the run-up to Christmas, Morrisons declined by 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Morrisons weakness over the period was partially blamed on a lack of convenience stores but especially on a lack of online options.<\/p>\n<p>Tesco also confirmed that Chris Bush was being appointed as UK managing director.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bush has been an employee of the firm for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clarke has temporarily led both the whole Tesco group and UK business for nine months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More follows&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket giant Tesco has seen UK like-for-like sales in the six weeks to January 5 rise by 1.8%.<br \/>\nIt was the strongest rate of growth for Britain&#8217;s biggest supermarket chain in three years.<br \/>\nOnline food sales saw growth of 18% in the period, with mor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}