Tesco is Coming to US

[killerbombshell]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/24/news...o_us/index.htm

I'd only ever heard of it through UK Atkineers, but apparently this new competition has bigger retailers (read: Wal-Mart) worried. Can anyone help to illustrate the difference between a Tesco and a regular US supermarket: Walmart, Giant, etc?

[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: Tesco is Coming to US

Looks like they're coming in on the West Coast.

[Heidi3]

Re: Tesco is Coming to US

since it is not in my vocabulary to go in anything called a "mart" I can't help ..there is just way to much stuff in those stores ..it gets too confusing!

[Labarum]

Re: Tesco is Coming to US

Well here is the Tesco UK site

http://www.tesco.com/

UK Supermarket ASDA was talen over by Walmart a couple of years ago - I don't know how much difference it made, but here is the site.

http://www.asda.co.uk/

ASDA is reckoned to be a little cheaper than Tesco and Sainsbury (the other biggy)

http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk

[Labarum]

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I have just seen this BBC report on Tesco and Asda-Walmart

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4637350.stm

[Heidi3]

Re: Tesco is Coming to US

Looks like they're coming in on the West Coast.

well that is good because we need more GIANT stores with a huge amt of stuff in them that is for sure ...Lord knows we only have 8 billion of them now .... can't have too much stuff now can we?

[ciaobella]

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hmmmm when i was in europe i liked tesco.... of course it wasn't as huge a walmart and such, and the ones that i went to (prague and one of the many in the london/maindhead area) only had like clothes, a few notebook type things and then everything you would find in like a super stop and shop....more emphisis on food than walmart.....for those in the uk/europe is the tesco corp as EVIL as walmart?