Tesco is the biggest supermarket in the UK and is a big success story. They are now very big and powerful and I heard they are expanding into Europe and the US. In the UK they are moving into other areas and are currently looking at setting up an Argos style of shopping in their stores (that might be a secret). My partner works for a construction company who work for Tescos. They have a programme for expanding their stores and are installing mezanine floors to create more floor space, to add more stock to make more money.
It has been said that they use their wealth to buy up land, not to build stores, but to stop competitors from building near their stores.
Despite all the bad stories about tesco and the way they treat their suppliers, how the food is shipped miles and miles, stored in warehouses with gas to keep it fresh, blah, blah, blah - they are so convenient, you can get everything under one roof, you can park, get petrol, etc so people are bound to patronise them, even me.
The online shopping is a real plus for someone like me, I don't have the time or energy to drive across town and fight my way through the retards and to queue for ages then lug it all back to the car and then in through the door. So I sit at my pc at work, order my shopping, order my delivery time and then a chirpy chappy arrives with it all. Well sometimes you get lemons instead of citrus washing liquid but you just ring them up and give them hell and they credit your account with twice the amount so it's not the end of the world. Sometimes I get a bonus bag of crisps or chips - probably someones elses loss I suppose!