Editing Tesco (section)

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In the United Kingdom Tesco operates a home shopping service through the [[Tesco.com]] website. In May 1984, in [[Gateshead]], England, Mrs. Jane Snowball used a piece of computer technology called "[[Videotex]]" on her television to purchase groceries from her local Tesco shop in the world's first recorded [[online shopping]] transaction from the home.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24091393|title=Online shopping: The pensioner who pioneered a home shopping revolution|last=Kelly|first=Denise Winterman and Jon|date=16 September 2013|work=BBC News|access-date=24 April 2017|archive-date=17 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717063557/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24091393|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Merrill|first=Jamie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/forget-ebay-and-amazon-it-was-a-gateshead-pensioner-who-started-the-online-shopping-revolution-8816912.html|title=Forget eBay and Amazon. It was a Gateshead pensioner who started the online shopping revolution|date=15 September 2013|work=The Independent|access-date=24 April 2017|archive-date=25 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425115942/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/forget-ebay-and-amazon-it-was-a-gateshead-pensioner-who-started-the-online-shopping-revolution-8816912.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Videotex takes Gateshead Teleshopping into the home |journal=The Incorporated Engineer |date=September 1984 |page=6}}</ref> As of November 2006, Tesco was the only food retailer to make online shopping profitable.<ref>{{Cite news| first = Gaelle| last = Walker| title = Online failing to deliver| work=The Grocer| publisher=William Reed Publications| page = 6|date=11 November 2006}}</ref> Since 2006 Tesco has operated a number of [[dark store]]s dedicated to the fulfilment of online orders of groceries.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/tesco-bids-for-a-virtual-supermarket-sweep-7440069.html|title=Tesco bids for a virtual supermarket sweep|date=24 February 2012|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=17 March 2018|archive-date=18 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318000611/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/tesco-bids-for-a-virtual-supermarket-sweep-7440069.html|url-status=live}}</ref>