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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

But Messieurs Barnes and Heini, joint managing directors of Aldi UK, have added more fresh products and up-market lines at prices 15-20% below those of regular UK supermarkets. Hard discounters aim for twice the volume with the same fixed costs so they can make the same returns at half the gross margin.

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