While we await news from Sainsbury's, Tesco's and Marks and Spencer later this week, the standout bad news is from Morrisons.
Gone will be an annual ballot of 85, 000 of the union's members on Tesco's pay offer, in which the turnout is below 50%.
Chief executive of Sainsbury's, Justin King, said Tesco's announcement "highlighted how important a detailed knowledge of and involvement in your supply chain is".
"It will have an impact on Wal-Mart's sales but not a dramatic impact, since Tesco's U.S. stores will be more convenience-based, " he said.
"It's never easy to walk away from something, " Tesco's chief executive, Philip Clarke, told the BBC.
The move follows the acquisition last year of blinkbox - recently voted the UK's best online movie service by Channel 5's The Gadget Show - and is the latest step in Tesco's strategy to offer customers new and innovative ways of accessing digital entertainment.
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Tesco's planned DNA checks were welcomed by MPs during a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday morning.
Campaigners have submitted a 2, 500-signature petition opposing Tesco's plans to turn it into a shop.
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Tesco's Christmas figures will be out on Thursday while Sainsbury's will update the markets on Wednesday.
In Tesco's case, a line longer than one shopping unit triggers the opening of another till.
Nomura analyst Matthew Truman said that 2010 would be Tesco's year, and rated the stock a buy.
Supporting Tesco's plans, local resident Sue Crossland told the public meeting that Holmfirth "needed" the proposed store.
Following what is bound to be an efficient production line, "Paris Connections" hits Tesco's shelves in May.
This helped offset supermarket giant Tesco's "disappointing" decision to reduce milk volumes from Wiseman earlier this year.
In particular, it was late in expanding into non-food goods, the source of much of Tesco's growth.
The majority of Tesco's concerns centred on documentation, although a new metal detector has also been installed.
Tesco's plans to redevelop the former Campbell's soup factory in Norfolk could create up to 700 jobs.
Plans to close Tesco's Buckinghamshire distribution centre could put hundreds of jobs at risk, a union has warned.
Tesco's scheme includes building on part of the neighbouring Brewery Field and turning it into a children's playground.
Matt Magee, Tesco's regional corporate affairs manager, said the planned new store would create more than 370 jobs.
But the approach has limits: Tesco's shoppers have taken to complaining if stores are crowded by busy internet packers.
It works by assigning attributes to each of the products on Tesco's shelves.
Sainsbury, which is Tesco's arch-rival in Britain, is also using dedicated warehouses to try to build its Internet sales.
Tesco's outgoing chief executive, Sir Terry Leahy, sniffs that Carrefour raced willy-nilly into emerging markets without a road map.
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"I don't really want Tesco's here because it won't be good for town centre shops such as mine, " he said.
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Tesco's retail director David Potts said that consumers were the first to tell the supermarket how to improve what it does.
Meanwhile, Tesco's sales loss would be "a lot bigger than a million pounds" as a result of the scandal, he said.
Under Tesco's plans, the remainder of Brewery Fields would be turned into a recreational area which would include a playground for children.
Judge Lord Malcolm rejected Tesco's bid for a judicial review of Highland Council's approval in principle of Asda's planned store in Tain.
Tesco's move, preceded by the Co-op's purchase of the Alldays chain earlier this week, has shown that convenience stores are in demand.
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