Tesco to reveal sales performance as cost of living still in focus
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Tesco’s pricing and efforts to stop customers switching to discount rivals will be in the spotlight again as the supermarket giant updates shareholders next week. Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “Tesco’s razor-sharp focus on keeping prices down is helping it fend off rival discounters, which should bode well for its half-year numbers. “Expanding the Aldi price match promotion has also been paying off, enabling Tesco to retain shoppers’ loyalty and discourage them from going elsewhere and investors will want to see this trend continuing.” Over the first quarter of its financial year, Tesco reported like-for-like sales growth of 8.2% against a year earlier, with a 9% increase in the UK.