"Dimitri" > wrote in message
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> Tesco, the UK supermarket group, is to focus the operations of its new US
> "Fresh & Easy" small supermarkets around a "customer assistant" whose role
> reflects a shift away from traditional approaches to US food store
> staffing.
>
> <snip>
>
> Tesco is expected to open its first stores in southern California, Arizona
> and Nevada in the fourth quarter of this year. It has secured more than
> 100 sites, and is also now securing sites in northern California around
> San Jose, Sacramento and Oakland.
>
> Read more he
>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9909e0d6-33c...0779fd2ac.html
>
>
> Dimitri

I find it interesting that here in the US we complain about imported goods,
buying Japanese cars, but we welcome foreign ownership of our food
distribution network.