Local brands even lead sales in a few categories, says Andy Roberts, the head of Pick n Pay's operation in Zambia.Farther from South Africa it is trickier to keep stores fully stocked.
Other former Tesco executives including John Browett, now boss of Monsoon, Richard Brasher, now head of Pick n Pay stores in South Africa, and Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk, are not thought to have ruled themselves out.
It is likely, however, that Nikephoros was originally sent to Italy already before that, at the head of a picked detachment of troops from Charsianon, which Theophanes Continuatus records as part of Maxentios' expeditionary force.
Take for example Ryan Jaunzemis, a 35-year-old man who eschewed college in the 90s to pursue a career based on the fledgling footwear and still makes time to use them despite his responsibilities as the head of a pick-up artist lair in Vegas.
It boasted an immensely sophisticated mechanism that enabled the little fellow to lower its head to pick up grains of corn and, in due course, to expel its digested meal.
The Guardian and Observer's head of consumer, Jill Insley, picked up the consumer journalist of the year award.
Arthur Levitt, then the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, picked Mr. Zarb, and it may fall on William H. Donaldson, the S.E.C. chairman, to find the right person now.
From this list, one was randomly invited to participate by the sealed envelopes method (this is a method of avoiding bias in selecting participants: the sealed envelope contains the numbers of family members, from which the head of the household picks one randomly).
"But now we cannot attack the judiciary or the Council of Guardians either," says one of Shargh's editors, referring to Iran's 12-strong body, the most powerful in the land, composed of six clergy appointed by the supreme leader and six others picked by the head of the judiciary, himself picked by the leader.
The head of the authority can pick judges, including replacements for those just forced into retirement, and has a nine-year mandate.
Donald Macleod is principal of the Free Church College, Edinburgh It is hard to get inside the head of anyone who would pick Iraq for their holiday.
