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LONDON (Reuters) -Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, forecast a further increase in profit in its new financial year as strong demand and new customers helped it to post an 11% jump in 2023/24. The supermarket group,which has a 27.3% share of Britain's grocery market, up 40 basis points on the year, also said inflationary pressures had "lessened substantially" and it was seeing signs of improving consumer sentiment. "Customers are choosing to shop more at Tesco, which is reflected in growing market share as they respond to the improvements we've made to the valu...

The supermarket giant said it benefited from a return to volume growth in the UK and Ireland in the second half of the year.

European equities opened higher on Wednesday, as investors shook off nerves ahead of a key inflation reading from the US. The FTSE 100 index opened up 46.08 points, 0.6%, at 7,980.87. The FTSE 250...

Angry shoppers have accused Tesco of putting up prices to boost profits and say the supermarket giant should have cut prices to help families struggling to put food on the table.

Pre-tax profits at Tesco approached £2.3bn during the 12 months to 24 February 2024, its preliminary results have revealed.