Is it still a major land-banker? The big s'mkts are getting into residential development but this is mainly above land they already use for retail, like the store and the car park. However the era of giant sheds seems in the UK anyway to have given way to smaller local stores, as people shop more last-minute, in smaller lots as they live in smaller homes, and online. Its overseas stores are still mainly large ones. A large store would be ca. 10,000 sq m, or 0.01 sq km, in area. Tesco has 3,400 UK stores, many of which are of course small Expresses, plus a further 3,409 non UK stores, total 6,809. Allowing for the car parks at the larger stores, the large HO they have, maybe we could say approximately, Tesco owns 70 - 100 sq km of land?

Of course of we allow for the farmers it effectively 'owns', rather like the UK's former 'economic colonies' such as Argentina, Tesco has a commercial grip on many hundreds of sq km of farms, then Tesco gets rather big indeed.

Dr Hillary J. Shaw
www.fooddeserts.org



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From: Judith Watson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, Apr 30, 2018 11:34 am
Subject: RE: Tesco, the world's 6th smallest country

Can you estimate its land holdings just from the stores etc? Or does it also engage in land-banking? 

Judith
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [CRIT-GEOG-[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Hillary Shaw [0000004f24593c23-dmarc-[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 April 2018 11:28
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Subject: Tesco, the world's 6th smallest country

Asda-Sainsbury may be huge, but Tesco's global land holdings, if it were a country, with its 6,800+ stores, car parks, distribution centres, head office etc etc, would probably be larger than the Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino (= 61 sq km). Approaching the size of Leichtenstein, 160 sq km).

UK Store chain numbers over time here
http://fooddeserts.org/images/suptimeTesco.htm
http://fooddeserts.org/images/suptimeNonTesco.htm

Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8QE
www.fooddeserts.org


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