date:Jul 09, 2014
ONOMICS
It has taken Tesco, Europe's second biggest retailer, 17 years to bring its online grocery business close to the industry-leading margins it used to make in its store business.
Tesco made a trading profit of 127 million pounds ($216 million) on online grocery sales of 2.5 billion pounds in 2013, equal to an operating margin of around 5 percent. That beat the 3.7 percent Tesco reported for the group in 2013 - after it was hit by restructuring costs - but came in below group margin at or