Gigantic British retailer Tesco will be coming to San Diego this year, including a store at 955 Catalina Blvd. (formerly Albertson’s) in Point Loma and another in Escondido.
The stores will be named “Fresh and Easy” and will have the standard variety of food products, including bakery, dairy, frozen foods, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks and liquor.
The stores will be roughly 15,000 square feet ” about the standard size of an American supermarket.
On the surface, Tesco can be considered the Wal-Mart of Britain because of the variety of products it offers and the number of stores it owns.
Tesco’s products include food, clothes, electronics, financial services, DVD rentals, Internet service, telecoms, budget software and gardening.
Specialty products include: Tesco Value (primarily targeting low-income families), Tesco Brand (geared toward middle-income families), Tesco Finest (aimed at high-income families), Tesco Kids, Healthy Living, organic, Best of Britain (specialty foods from Britain), whole foods (specialty foods from around the world), free form (foods that are without specific ingredients), Tesco Christmas, Cherokee and F&F (clothing line), Technika and Digilogic (electronics) and Tesco Mobile.
Tesco has an assortment of stores. The Tesco Extra stores (68,000 square feet), Tesco Metro (12,000 square feet), which are placed in urban areas of medium-size towns, and Tesco Express (2,100 square feet) are neighborhood convenience stores that offer mainly food and essential items. These are placed in urban areas and residential areas.
Tesco (31,000 square feet) stores are also located in mostly suburban areas of large and medium-size towns. The smallest of the Tesco stores are the One Stop (1,350 square feet) locations. Homeplus is the newest of the company’s store lineups. It is a warehouse-style retailer that sells all of the chain’s products except food.
Tesco’s origins can be traced to London, where it was created in 1919 by Jack Cohen.