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According to the survey of Kantar Worldpanel, 15% of the households in France do their groceries in drive-thru stores. In November 2011, the proportion was half this.

Every package in every store has it. We are so used to it that we barely notice it. Bar Code was invented by N. Joseph Woodland in 1949 and dominated retail market all over the world. The project started in 1948 after a request from retailer to find technology to encode information about his products and quickly became Woodlands obsession.

Last month Friedrich Fuchs, head of Lidl France announced in Paris a new strategy to more than 3000 managers of the brand. The retailer is planning to offer more leading brands, in-store bakery, more space for fresh products. The changes are supposed to be implemented immediately and should be completed within 3 years. The plan is to get out from the hard-discount model without becoming a traditional retailer.

Here is an interesting article on how Tesco increased its sales by 130 per cent in three months in South Korea