When I last reviewed the Tesco wine offer, the company was in the midst of turmoil resulting from the combined fallout of severe competition in the UK marketplace, declining sales, drastically tumbling profits and brand-damaging negative publicity. Tesco had just announced a settlement with US authorities, regarding various legal...
Tesco autumn 2017 – better than expected
Friday 20 October 2017
Andy Howard MW kicks off his autumn series reviewing the current wine offerings from UK supermarkets with a report on a pretty mixed bag at Tesco. See also his articles on See his earlier articles on Marks & Spencer, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and the Co-op.
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