Tesco is planning to establish its own distribution network to serve its online customers so that it does not have to rely on third-party providers.
The company, which is Britain’s fourth biggest online retailer in the country, according to research by Interactive Media in Retail Group, has already opened its first Tesco.com store in Croydon, Surrey.
DSG has said it does not know whether electrical retailers will even exist on high streets in 10 years, partly because of the pressures that lower prices put on fixed costs of bricks-and-mortar shops.
References: Financial Times 25/05/06 page 2
