Tesco opens in Japan

April 26, 2007 at 10:36 am · Filed under Retail

UK based Tesco opened it’s first store in Japan this week. The store is a small discount supermarket under the name Tesco Express and is located in a suburb of Tokyo. Another two stores are being planned to open later this year. Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world, after US company Wal-Mart and French chain Carrefour. Tesco has stores all across Europe and is steadily opening stores in Asia, in countries such as South Korea, Thailand, China and Malaysia.

2 Comments »

  1. Jeff Ashcroft said,

    May 5, 2007 @ 11:41 pm

    Hello,

    Speaking of Wal-Mart, they have now tied their RFID initiative to their expanding environmental programs.

    See this article for more details…
    http://supplychainnetwork.com/?p=91

    TESCO is now beginning to go head to head with Wal-Mart in the United States as well.

    Cheers

    Jeff Ashcroft

  2. Shalini Bahadur said,

    May 6, 2007 @ 12:01 am

    Thanks for the info, Jeff. Your site is a great resource and I have bookmarked it.

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