60|Retail News|December 2018|www.retailnews.ie
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Top Year for Tesco Ireland 2018 was a busy year for Tesco Ireland, with a number of initiatives helping the retailer to stand out from its competitors. 2018 was a busy year for Tesco Ireland, with continued focus on serving Ireland’s shoppers a little better every day, under the guidance of newly appointed Chief Executive, Kari Daniels. Tesco Ireland continues to invest in its store portfolio and this year created 175 jobs at the brand new Tesco Extra store in Liffey Valley, bringing their total number of Irish stores to 151. The new Tesco Liffey Valley store offers customers the best shopping experience, with an extensive range of quality fresh Irish foods, an impressive F&F footprint, as well as a dedicated Tesco Mobile store and complementary services with Grafton Barber, Costa Coffee and Holland & Barrett. Providing a totally new and enhanced type of shopping experience for customers in the area, the new Liffey Valley store is a highly carbon-efficient design, which includes in-built energysaving measures, advanced lighting, heating and cooling systems and waste recycling facilities. Tesco Ireland is also continuing to invest in the roll-out of its store refresh programme across the country. Leading the Way in Grocery Home Shopping Tesco continues to offer the most extensive grocery home shopping service; with over 87% population coverage, they have seen double digit growth in orders year-on-year. Tesco Ireland prides itself on the fact that it is always looking to make the shopping experience simpler and easier for customers. At Tesco, they believe that even the little things make all the difference so in October 2018, they launched a new initiative offering free deliveries for over-65s when they shop online. The new initiative was launched to coincide with International
To celebrate the launch of Cedric teddy bears on sale in Tesco stores for €5 in aid of Temple Street from December 1, a special team of Tesco elves made a surprise visit to Temple Street to make sure that every little Temple Street hero was given their very own Cedric teddy bear. Pictured is Anthony Iannucci (centre), aged 11, with Tesco colleagues Lar Mooney, Aileen Keogh, Clair O’Donnell, Liz Barlow and Sophie Ryan. Day of Older Persons, which seeks to support full and effective participation of older persons in the community, and was supported by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and Age Action Ireland. This extension of its home delivery service helps older members of their community avail of free delivery of their weekly shopping. This will be highly beneficial, especially as we enter the
colder months, ensuring that older members of the community get the very best food in the manner most convenient to them. These deliveries will operate across Ireland six days a week from 3pm-7pm, Monday-Saturday, subject to a minimum spend of €50. Tesco’s dedicated customer service team will be available on Freephone 1800 248 123 to help process online orders over the telephone.