date:Dec 21, 2012
h Easy opened amid much fanfare five years ago and there are about 200 stores in southern California and Nevada.
But Tesco's plans were far more ambitious. Within weeks of the first store opening, in Hemet, east of Los Angeles, Fresh Easy bosses were voicing ambitions to have 1,000 stores across California and then taking Fresh Easy to the east coast.
The retailer built a vast warehouse, complete with America's biggest expanse of solar panels to help power it, and a food factory next door t