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Together, they account for more than half of the country's trillion-dollar retail food market.
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Although Tesco already has a 27% share of the food retail market in the UK, it believes it could keep 75% of the Safeway portfolio and avoid any regulatory issues.
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There are, traditionally, certain sectors of the job market, among them food service and retail careers, which see consistently higher quitting rates than others.
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It recently launched four agro-industrial businesses supplying staple products such as milk and maize flour, and its retail-food chain, Mercal, aims to cover 60% of the market.
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At the Lancaster Central Market, Vicky Glosser works the register at an ice cream and salad retail food stand.
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Tesco is already the biggest retailer in the U.K.--with about 30% of the retail market--and one of the largest in the world, selling everything from canned food to clothes to electronics.
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Retail businesses in the consumer staples sector like food, beverages, clothing and electronics are likely to fall behind the broader market in the first half of 2012, according to Barclays.
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