The Lemon Fool

· UK & ROI: Strong Christmas benefiting from an increasingly competitive offer for customers

o UK & ROI Christmas LFL sales +2.6%, outperforming market in UK in both volume and value terms

- Quality and value perception1 both up significantly year-on-year: +3.5pts and +4.5pts respectively
- Market outperformance in all key categories: food, clothing and general merchandise

o UK & ROI 3Q LFL sales +1.9% reflecting transition to new own brands and subsequent resetting of mix in UK
- 'Exclusively at Tesco' roll-out 95% complete by end-3Q, with 82% of customers buying into the range

o Booker delivering strong growth (LFL excl. tobacco: 3Q 10.7%; Christmas 8.2%); contract wins last year annualise early in Christmas period

Horsey wrote:Looks good - so expect SP to fall 3.5% on open

idpickering wrote:

· UK & ROI: Strong Christmas benefiting from an increasingly competitive offer for customers

o UK & ROI Christmas LFL sales +2.6%, outperforming market in UK in both volume and value terms

- Quality and value perception1 both up significantly year-on-year: +3.5pts and +4.5pts respectively
- Market outperformance in all key categories: food, clothing and general merchandise

o UK & ROI 3Q LFL sales +1.9% reflecting transition to new own brands and subsequent resetting of mix in UK
- 'Exclusively at Tesco' roll-out 95% complete by end-3Q, with 82% of customers buying into the range

o Booker delivering strong growth (LFL excl. tobacco: 3Q 10.7%; Christmas 8.2%); contract wins last year annualise early in Christmas period

https://www.investegate.co.uk/tesco-plc ... 00076835M/

idpickering wrote:

Horsey wrote:Looks good - so expect SP to fall 3.5% on open

Maybe so? FTSE futures are down 0.5%. Up here in Orkney we’re a captive audience as we only have Tesco and Lidl. I must admit I preferred Sainsbury’s for our weekly shop in our previous gaff in Nottinghamshire. As it is, Tesco up nearly 3% on opening.

Ian.