<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c0cc6a97-62ff-4c3a-acde-d27a80cf91e1/B7AB7A5D-78C8-424C-84CF-9BF40A061B3A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/" href="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.voucheralerts.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/"><P>The UK is still in the middle of a recession which has seen consumers look for more and more ways to <A href="http://voucheralerts.co.uk/">save money</A> and cut back on their expenditure. This need to cut back had cause a huge rise in 2008 of the popularity of discount supermarkets such as Lidl and Aldi where Aldi grew by 26% but now although these supermarkets are still growing at an above average rate, Waitrose has surprisingly shown the biggest growth of 10.2%.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/"><P class="MsoNormal">Waitrose is known for being a high end supermarket and this growth wasn’t expected by many however their introduction of an Essentials range and the conversion of some stores that they have taken over has seen their growth increase and their position in the sector increase.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/"><P class="MsoNormal">The top 4 supermarkets all continued to grow but <A href="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/r/tesco.com/">Tesco</A> saw some of their market share eaten way which has stimulated them into doubling their Clubcard discount. To try and claw back customer loyalty.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.voucheralerts.co.uk/img/1C48B975-EDEA-48AA-A0ED-0915F269E9FD" alt="Waitrose surprise leaders" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voucheralerts.co.uk/news/3010/waitrose-surprises-by-being-top-performer/"><P class="wp-caption-text">Waitrose surprise leaders</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B7AB7A5D-78C8-424C-84CF-9BF40A061B3A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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