More of our business will be online, delivered and digital. Both brands will also add more local assortments that reflect the diversity of our customers depending on where they live.
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This will reinforce fair value to broaden our appeal to more customers, recognising shoppers are especially cost conscious at the moment. Digital and virtual. Browse marketing analysis of more brands and companies similar to Waitrose. The brand names and other brand information used in the SWOT Analysis section are properties of their respective companies. The companies are not associated with MBA Skool in any way.
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You would probably expect a middle-aged, middle-class academic to do their shopping at Waitrose, and yes, I do. So there was disquiet in our household at the news that Waitrose is planning to close six stores potentially putting jobs at risk. So what prompted this change of heart after considerable expansion over the last few years?
There seem to be a lot of factors in the mix, including a relatively new boss — perhaps wanting to make his mark — and the introduction of the new minimum wage for overs. The company has denied that the latter had prompted it to stop paying Sunday and overtime rates to new shop workers. The company is also now operating in a deeply competitive environment — by which I mean there is just so much more choice of where to shop that perhaps we have reached saturation point in terms of how many supermarkets we actually need?
Indeed Waitrose is not the first major retailer to reconsider store expansion. A couple of years ago Tesco started to rethink its expansion plans and bailed out on some new stores. Back in the previous chief executive of Waitrose had predicted that there would be more large store closures. But this change is more than a cultural shift in how Britons shop.
A more important factor is the acceptance of the German budget supermarkets Aldi and Lidl by all kinds of shopper.
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