{"id":476,"date":"2005-12-30T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2005-12-30T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:20:00","slug":"disruption-in-the-grocery-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Disruption in the grocery market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article about the rise of Aldi and Lidl.<\/p>\n<p>For me the attraction of Aldi is:-<br \/>Simplicity &#8211; No choice makes for quick shopping.<br \/>High Quality &#8211; because its their only offering the quality has to be good (compare to Tescos Value to Finest ranges).<br \/>Low price &#8211; Easily 1\/3 to 1\/2 of comparable offerings.<br \/>Steady pricing &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><br \/>Fast Checkout<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge UK branch is certainly frequented by a very diverse range of people, millionaires to the poorest.<\/p>\n<p>Its a pity that they are not allowed to expand faster since the UK government doesnt view them as a competitor to Tesco\/Asda\/Sainsbury.  Apparently thas only<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooddeserts.org\/images\/supshare.htm\"> about 2.2% <\/a>of the UK grocery market with 278 stores<\/p>\n<p>La chronique des March\u00e9s en Rupture \/ Disruptive Markets : Hard Discount disruptions: &#8220;http:\/\/marchesenrupture.blogspirit.com\/trackback\/488655&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article about the rise of Aldi and Lidl. For me the attraction of Aldi is:-Simplicity &#8211; No choice makes for quick shopping.High Quality &#8211; because its their only offering the quality has to be good (compare to Tescos Value to Finest ranges).Low price &#8211; Easily 1\/3 to 1\/2 of comparable offerings.Steady pricing &#8211; Fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}