Editing Tesco (section)

===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>