date:May 04, 2014
This morning upmarket British supermarket chain Waitrose revealed that its sales rose by 6.5% in the first quarter, as it continued its trend of outperforming larger rivals.
Employee-owned Waitrose, which is part of the John Lewis Partnership, is outperforming all of the UK's 'big four' - Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - with only discounters Aldi and Lidl doing better.
According to researcher Kantar Worldpanel, Waitrose's market share in the UK currently stands at 5% making it the co