Sentence examples for supermarket operation from inspiring English sources

Instead of trying to revolutionize the mundane chore of grocery shopping with a high-tech approach relying on expensive centralized warehouses, Tesco simply added a modest online delivery service to its traditional supermarket operation.

The former boss of the B&Q DIY chain and Sainsbury's US operations, David Bremner will oversee the UK supermarket operations, although Mr Adriano will remain in the chief executive's role.

Last Friday, embattled chief executive Dino Adriano announced his intention to relinquish day-to-day responsibility for the supermarket operations, which account for more than 90% of the group's turnover.

In the hundreds of pages of documents published to give details of the £1.5bn rescue of the bank, which is being forced to give up its mutual ownership under pressure from two US hedge funds, the group outlined the importance of the dividend it pays out to its seven million members before Christmas on its supermarket operations.

Besides Schwab, leading supermarket operations include those of Fidelity Investments, Waterhouse Securities, Jack White, Muriel Siebert, Quick & Reilly, Scudder, Dreyfus and National Discount Brokers.

One U.K. media report suggested Wal-Mart's Wild had extensive experience of running troubled supermarket operations.

The world's third-largest retailer Ahold said it planned to sell its South American supermarket operations to cut its huge debt pile, after an accounting scandal blew up early this year.

Shares in Ahold, a Dutch supermarket operator with large American operations, recently tumbled after investors took fright at the company's attempt to gloss over an unflattering American accounting treatment in favour of the European one.Jumpy investors are quick to assume the worst at present, partly thanks to this confusion among accounting systems.

By 1939, there were 4,982 supermarkets in operation.

The biggest cava producers ship millions of bottles each year; it's not easy to know how long they've been sitting on shelves, especially in large, supermarket-style operations.

"There has been a deluge of flooding in that part of Spain and they have got blocked roads, flooded dispatch facilities and mobile rigs for picking as well as crops that have been washed away," said Anthony Gardiner of G's, a major supplier to the supermarkets with operations in the UK and Spain.