Editing Tesco (section)

==Former operations==
===Tesco Home 'n' Wear===
In the 1960s, Tesco set up a non-food division, Tesco Home 'n' Wear, headed by [[Leslie Porter]]. It had stand-alone shops and departments in larger shops, and from 1975 a distribution centre in [[Milton Keynes]]. Although Tesco continued to stock non-food items the stand-alone shops were closed and the name was no longer in use when Tesco Extra was launched.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Sarah|last=Ryle|title=The Making of Tesco: A Story of British Shopping|publisher=Random House|year=2013|isbn=9781448127474|pages=58;74;208}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|first1=Robert|last1=Mason|first2=Barry|last2=Evans|title=The Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco|publisher=Kogan Page|year=2015|isbn=9780749472085|page=32}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/11th-july-1975/55/tesco-plans-for-the-eighties|first=John|last=Darker|title=Tesco plans for the Eighties|journal=Commercial Motor|date=11 July 1975|page=55|access-date=1 July 2017|archive-date=19 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119124353/http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/11th-july-1975/55/tesco-plans-for-the-eighties|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Tesco Homeplus===
In May 2005, Tesco announced a trial non-food only format near [[Manchester]] and [[Aberdeen]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Prynn|first1=Jonathan|title=New Tesco shops that don't sell food|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/new-tesco-stores-that-dont-sell-food-7203321.html|access-date=20 September 2015|work=Evening Standard|date=31 May 2005|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925111029/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/new-tesco-stores-that-dont-sell-food-7203321.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the first shop opened in October 2005. The shops offered all of Tesco's ranges except food in warehouse-style units in retail parks. Tesco introduced the format as only 20% of its customers had access to a Tesco Extra, and the company was restricted in how many of its superstores it could convert into Extras and how quickly it could do so. Large units for non-food retailing are much more readily available. The format was not Tesco's first non-food-only venture in the UK. Until the late 1990s/early 2000s there were several non-food Tesco shops around the country including Scarborough and Yate. Although not in a warehouse-style format, the shops were located on high streets and shopping centres and stocked similar items to Homeplus shops. In both cases, this was because another part of the shopping centre had a Tesco Superstore that stocked food items only. By 2014, the number of Homeplus shops in the United Kingdom had reached 12; the newest shop opened in Chester in July 2009. In 2012 it was reported that Tesco was looking to close the business to focus on groceries.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tesco 'set to wind up Home Plus'|url=http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/01/23/tesco-set-to-wind-up-home-plus/|access-date=22 January 2015|work=AOL Money|date=23 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123011516/http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/01/23/tesco-set-to-wind-up-home-plus/|archive-date=23 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Tesco closed six Homeplus shops on 15 March 2015,<ref name="43-closures">{{cite news |date=28 January 2015 |title=Tesco names 43 UK store closures |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31023136 |access-date=28 January 2015 |archive-date=28 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128125114/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31023136 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the remaining six shops closed on 27 June 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tesco to close last six UK Homeplus stores with loss of 450 jobs|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/12/tesco-homeplus-last-six-store-closures-uk-450-jobs|access-date=26 August 2015|agency=Reuters|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 May 2015|archive-date=10 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810173658/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/12/tesco-homeplus-last-six-store-closures-uk-450-jobs|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Tesco Metro ===
[[File:Tesco Metro, Jesmond - geograph.org.uk - 5160084.jpg|thumb|Tesco Metro in [[Jesmond]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], England, 2016]]
Tesco Metro shops were sized between Tesco superstores and Tesco Express shops, averaging {{convert|11000|sqft|m2|order=flip}}. They were mainly located in town centres and other urban locations<ref>{{cite web|date=12 January 2011|title=New Tesco Metro in Bournemouth is set to open|url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8785383.Inside_Bournemouth_s_new_Tesco_Metro___but_what_do_you_think_/|access-date=14 April 2017|work=Bournemouth Echo|archive-date=15 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415012818/http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8785383.Inside_Bournemouth_s_new_Tesco_Metro___but_what_do_you_think_/|url-status=live}}</ref> and were designed to accommodate larger weekly shops as well as top-up shopping.<ref name="Grocer-MetroClosure">{{cite news|last1=Quinn|first1=ian|date=18 May 2021|title=Tesco scraps Metro format blaming shift in customer habits|work=The Grover|url=https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/tesco/tesco-scraps-metro-format-blaming-shift-in-customer-habits/656183.article|access-date=18 May 2021|archive-date=18 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518165421/https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/tesco/tesco-scraps-metro-format-blaming-shift-in-customer-habits/656183.article|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2021, Tesco announced the brand would be retired as only 31% of customers were using the stores for larger shops. 89 locations converted to the Tesco Express format while the remaining 58 adopted the standard superstore format.<ref name="Grocer-MetroClosure" />

===Dobbies Garden Centres===
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[[File:Dobbies Garden Centre, Lasswade - geograph.org.uk - 428608.jpg|thumb|Dobbies Garden Centre in [[Lasswade]], Scotland, 2007]]

[[Dobbies Garden Centres|Dobbies]] is a chain of garden centres across Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland. Tesco completed its acquisition of Dobbies in 2008, and the company continued to trade under its own brand, from its own head office in Melville, near [[Edinburgh]]. On 17 June 2016, Tesco sold the company on to a group of investors led by Midlothian Capital Partners and Hattington Capital for £217&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36557115|title=Tesco sells Dobbies Garden Centres for £217m|date=17 June 2016|access-date=18 June 2016|publisher=BBC|archive-date=18 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618000640/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36557115|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Harris + Hoole===
{{main|Harris + Hoole}}
In 2012, Tesco invested in a new coffee shop chain, named Harris + Hoole after coffee-loving characters in [[Samuel Pepys]]' diary.<ref>{{cite news |last=Neate |first=Rupert |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/aug/08/tesco-coffee-shops-harris-hoole |title=Tesco's coffee shop chain to go under Harris and Hoole banner |work=The Guardian |access-date=18 April 2013 |location=London |date=8 August 2012 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928140909/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/aug/08/tesco-coffee-shops-harris-hoole |url-status=live }}</ref> Tesco took full ownership of the business from its founders Nick, Andrew and Laura Tolley in February 2016,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Davey|first1=James|title=Tesco takes full control of Harris+Hoole coffee chain|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-tesco-harris-hoole-idUKKCN0VJ1JY|access-date=13 April 2016|work=Reuters|date=10 February 2016|archive-date=23 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423203929/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-tesco-harris-hoole-idUKKCN0VJ1JY|url-status=dead}}</ref> and agreed in June 2016 to sell it to [[Caffè Nero]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tesco sheds Harris & Hoole coffee shops|url=http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/06/23/tesco-sheds-harris-hoole-coffee-shops/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/06/23/tesco-sheds-harris-hoole-coffee-shops/ |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|access-date=18 July 2016|work=Financial Times|date=23 June 2016}}</ref>

===Giraffe===
[[Giraffe Restaurants|Giraffe]] is a restaurant chain in the United Kingdom which Tesco purchased in March 2013 as part of a strategy of making use of excess space in its shops. Tesco sold the chain to [[Boparan Holdings]] in June 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tesco sells Giraffe restaurant chain and Turkish business|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36496884|access-date=10 June 2016|work=BBC News|date=10 June 2016|archive-date=10 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610100507/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36496884|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Euphorium Bakery===
Euphorium Bakery opened a concession in Tesco's [[Kensington]] shop in 2012, and in 2013 Tesco bought a stake in the business. It purchased the remaining stake in April 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Smolen|first1=Bronya|title=Exclusive: Tesco buys Euphorium Bakery|url=http://bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/14162/exclusive:_tesco_buys_euphorium_bakery.html|access-date=3 January 2017|work=Bakery Info|date=14 April 2015|archive-date=4 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104091000/http://bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/14162/exclusive:_tesco_buys_euphorium_bakery.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2016, Tesco sold Euphorium's high street shops and factory in [[Islington]] to Soho Coffee, and its factory in [[Weybridge]] to [[Samworth Brothers]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tesco sells Euphorium bakery business|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37193914|access-date=3 January 2017|work=BBC News|date=26 August 2016|archive-date=6 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106090506/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37193914|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Jack's===
[[File:Jack's Chatteris interior.jpg|thumb|Jack's supermarket in [[Chatteris]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England, the first store using this brand to open in September 2018]]
{{main|Jack's (store)}}
In 2018, Tesco launched a separate budget chain, [[Jack's (store)|Jack's]], to compete with Lidl and Aldi; the first store opened in [[Chatteris]], [[Cambridgeshire]] in September 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/19/tesco-opens-jacks-first-discount-store-battle-lidl-aldi|title=Tesco opens discount store Jack's to take on Lidl and Aldi|first=Sarah|last=Butler|date=19 September 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=19 September 2018|archive-date=19 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919080104/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/19/tesco-opens-jacks-first-discount-store-battle-lidl-aldi|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2022 Tesco announced it would be shutting down its Jack's stores, with stores either being closed or converted to Tesco Superstores.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 January 2022 |title=Tesco to shut down its Jack's discount stores |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60208462 |access-date=14 March 2022 |archive-date=14 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314141412/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60208462 |url-status=live }}</ref>