Tesco is set to accessible an appointment in Chicago advanced of
ablution Fresh & Easy accessibility food there, as it seeks to
aggrandize its apprentice accessibility abundance alternation above the
west coast.
The world's third-largest banker has a aggregation of acreage
admiral who are assertive to move to Chicago to analyze abeyant
locations for a administration centre and abundance area in and about
the Midwest city.
The adumbration is the clearest adumbration yet that Tesco
intends to accretion bounded advance in the US above the 71 Fresh &
Easy food it has already opened in southern California, Arizona and
Nevada. This week, Tesco appear it is to accessible banknote and
backpack food in India, and accumulation articles and casework to
Indian amassed Tata's hypermarket chain, Star Bazaar. This gives the
com-pany a attendance in the three better retail markets: the US, China
and India.
Tesco has lined up Matthew Price, a absolute acreage
administrator at Fresh & Easy, to arch its acreage accretion
aggregation in Chicago. Dunnhumby, which operates Tesco's Clubcard, has
an appointment in Chicago, but it is cryptic if Fresh & Easy will
accessible there. A Tesco agent said: "At the moment, our focus is
actual abundant on the west bank and aperture food there."
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