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Waitrose : ウィキペディア英語版
Waitrose

Waitrose is a chain of British supermarkets, which forms the food retail division of Britain's largest employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis Partnership. Its head office is located in Bracknell, Berkshire, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Head Office Location )〕 As of February 2015, Waitrose has 322 branches across the United Kingdom,〔 including 30 "little Waitrose" convenience stores, and a 5% share of the market, making it the sixth-largest grocery retailer in the UK.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Market Share of UK Supermarkets )
Waitrose has been described by such newspapers as ''The Telegraph'' and ''The Guardian'' as having an "upmarket" reputation, although managing director Mark Price suggests this is not the case when its prices are compared to those of rival Tesco.
The company has a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to Queen Elizabeth II and, as of 1 January 2011, to Prince Charles.
== History ==
Founded in 1904 by Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor, Waitrose began as a small grocery store, Waite, Rose & Taylor, in Acton, West London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company History )〕 In 1908, two years after David Taylor had left the business, the name "Waitrose", from the remaining founders' names, was adopted. In 1937, the company, consisting of ten stores and 160 employees, was taken over by the John Lewis Partnership.〔
In 1955, the chain opened its first supermarket in Streatham, London and continued to expand throughout London and the South East of England during the 1960s. In the 1970s, Waitrose opened branches in Hampshire, Bedfordshire, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
In 1981, counter service was introduced for fresh meat, fish and cheese, and in 1983, Waitrose became the first major supermarket chain to sell organic food.
Since 2000, Waitrose has continued its expansion, including purchasing stores from Somerfield, Morrisons, Woolworths, The Co-operative Group and Sandpiper CI, a move which saw the chain move into northern England and Scotland for the first time.
The firm signed a deal with Alliance Boots which allowed Boots to operate branded pharmacies in Waitrose stores and Boots stores to sell Waitrose food products. The partnership between the companies ended in 2012 having been deemed unsuccessful, which led to Boots replacing Waitrose products with items from Irish retailer Musgrave's SuperValu chain.
In October 2011, Waitrose opened a Fulfilment Centre in West London as part of its Waitrose.com Online Delivery Service. This allowed Waitrose to offer an online service to customers in London previously restricted due to its commercial agreement with Ocado.
As of October 2013, Waitrose has 300 stores across the UK.

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