Editing Tesco (section)

===Market share===
According to [[Kantar Worldpanel]], Tesco's share of the UK groceries market in the 12 weeks to 26 January 2025 was 28.5%, up from 27.8% in the 12 weeks to 28 January 2024.<ref name="KantarMarch23">{{Cite web |last=Louis |first=Yasmeen |date=2025-02-04 |title=Lidl and Ocado thrive as Asda's market share slumps |url=https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2025/02/04/lidl-ocado-thrive-asdas-slump/ |access-date=2025-02-12 |language=en-US}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto"
! Supermarket
! Market share<br />January 2025
! +/- from<br />January 2024
|- style="background:#ff9;"
|| Tesco
|| 28.5%
|| {{Increase}} 0.7%
|-
| [[Sainsbury's]]
| 15.9%
| {{Increase}} 0.2%
|-
| [[Asda]]
| 12.6%
| {{decrease}} 1.0%
|-
| [[Morrisons]]
| 8.6%
| {{decrease}} 0.2%
|-
| [[Aldi]]
| 10.2%
| {{increase}} 0.1%
|-
| [[Lidl]]
| 7.2%
| {{increase}} 0.3%
|}

In terms of the wider UK retail market, Tesco sales account for around one pound in every ten spent in British shops.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davey |first=James |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-tesco-idUKBRE83H07H20120418 |title=Tesco curbs UK expansion to focus on revival |work=Reuters (UK) |date=18 April 2012 |access-date=18 April 2013 |archive-date=6 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806194152/https://www.reuters.com/?edition-redirect=uk |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2007 it was reported that its share was even larger, with one pound in every seven spent going to Tesco.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wallop |first=Harry |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1548742/1-in-every-seven-now-spent-in-Tesco.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1548742/1-in-every-seven-now-spent-in-Tesco.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=£1 in every seven now spent in Tesco |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=16 April 2007 |access-date=18 April 2013 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 2006, [[Inverness]] was branded as "Tescotown",<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4618972.stm |work=BBC News |title=Tesco accused of 'near monopoly' |date=17 January 2006 |access-date=13 March 2006 |archive-date=29 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629210610/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4618972.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.tescotown.co.uk/| title = Inverness: Tescotown| access-date = 13 March 2006| archive-date = 2 April 2006| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060402213325/http://tescotown.co.uk/| url-status = live}}</ref> because well over 50p in every £1 spent on food is believed to be spent in its three Tesco shops.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1676049,00.html |first=Lorna |last=Martin |work=The Observer |location=London |title=The supermarket that ate a town |date=1 January 2006 |access-date=13 March 2006 |archive-date=9 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909192611/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1676049,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2014 competition from other retailers led to a fall in Tesco's market share to 28.7%; this was the lowest level in a decade.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/23/tesco-timeline-the-highs-and-lows |title=Tesco timeline - the highs and lows of the UK's biggest retailer |last=Butler |first=Sarah |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=21 March 2015 |archive-date=16 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116171656/http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/23/tesco-timeline-the-highs-and-lows |url-status=live }}</ref>