Magnetic strips are rarely used in British stores anymore, and the same is largely true in Continental Europe.
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That said, there have been signs in the past year that Tesco's costly investment to improve service and stock in British stores has stabilised the business.
The crown claimed there had been negligence on the part of British Home Stores staff.
Simona Walters, a former accountant from Italy, opened Dolci Follie last November after finding the service in British lingerie stores frustrating.
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But the court heard from staff at British Home Stores who said they did not give Mr McCann any permission to carry out the work there.
Undaunted, Green set his sights on British Home Stores, the country's fifth-largest retail chain: 156 outlets with 4.4 million square feet of space stocked with everything from housewares to bridesmaids' dresses.
In the last four years the 52-year-old clothier has rehabilitated two retail operations: British Home Stores (now known as BHS), a 76-year-old chain of department stores, and Arcadia Group, owner of popular outfitters like Topshop and Topman.
Kingfisher, a British chain of home improvement stores, is a potential target, she thinks.
The two other U.S. credit rating agencies, Experian, a subsidiary of British retail conglomerate Great Universal Stores, and TransUnion, a subsidiary of the privately held Marmon Group controlled by Chicago's Pritzker family, offer similar monitoring services.
And while Tesco may still the dominant player in the U.K., with one in every 8 British pounds spent in its stores, sniping from antitrust regulators and increasingly stiff competition means Leahy is now looking to cut reliance on his own turf.
Philip Clarke said Tesco had also introduced a new testing process and that from July all chicken sold in its UK stores would be from British farms.
The companies' sales news confirms figures from the British Retail Consortium, showing high street stores enjoyed a booming Christmas.
The US venture has proved difficult for the British supermarket chain - none of its nearly 300 stores have made a profit.
Mr. Browett, a British executive, was hired to run Apple's retail stores after a months-long search that considered a large number of candidates.
That same year in Vancouver, British Columbia, several iPad shoppers at Future Shop and Best Buy stores said they opened the Apple packaging to find plastic bags filled with modeling clay.
Findus said Thursday it had withdrawn its lasagna -- labeled with the British spelling, "lasagne" -- from UK stores Monday as a precaution after its French supplier, Comigel, raised concerns about the type of meat used.
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Bleak warnings have sounded from such broad-based supermarket groups as Carrefour in France and Metro in Germany, from Federated Department Stores in America and from specialists such as Dixons, a British electronics chain.
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By comparison, Tesco, a British supermarket chain, set up an online grocery business fulfilling orders more cheaply from the shelves of its existing stores.
"More is not necessarily better...some vitamins and minerals can be toxic in high doses, " particularly the fat-soluble ones which the body stores like Vitamins A, D, E and K, explained Claire Williamson, Nutrition Scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation.
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