However, loyalty cards did not expand until 1997, when Tesco Ireland introduced its Clubcard scheme, shortly after its purchase of Power Supermarkets.

The Archimedes won significant market share in the education markets of the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand ; the success of the Archimedes in British schools was due partly to its predecessor the BBC Micro and later to the Computers for Schools scheme organised by the Tesco supermarket chain in association with Acorn, and most students and pupils in these countries in the early 90s were exposed to an Archimedes or A-series computer.

Quinnsworth was remembered for its advertising campaigns featuring its marketing director Maurice Pratt ( later became chief executive of Tesco Ireland ), who would personally introduce new product promotions, ending each advert with the company slogan, " That's Real Value ".

In 1997, " Powers Supermarkets Limited " ( trading as Quinnsworth ) changed its name to " Tesco Ireland Limited ".

Over the next few years, Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices supermarkets were rebranded as Tesco Ireland.

The first store to open under the Tesco Ireland name was in Athlone in 1997.

In 2001, the last Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices stores were rebranded as Tesco Ireland.

* Tesco Ireland

In the late 1990s, the centre underwent a huge renovation and opened its own Tesco Ireland store.

* Tesco Ireland ( Tesco Extra stores )

The county football associations, along with their fellow associations from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland run the Tesco Cup, a tournament for young players sponsored by the supermarket company.

Tesco Ireland had wanted to build a superstore in Lakepoint Retail addition to its current store but the local council turned this down.

Device used as logo for Maynooth village on street signs, tourist information, etc. The town is the main retail and service centre for North Kildare and South Meath, with branches of SuperValu, Tesco Ireland, Aldi and Lidl, as well as a wide variety of non-chain stores.

On 18 January 2007 Tesco Ireland announced plans to demolish its existing store in Maynooth ( the same store having been demolished and rebuilt only seven years previously ) and build a larger shopping centre, anchored by a Tesco Extra store, on a neighbouring site.

More retail units were constructed along with the expansion of the Tesco outlet and thus becoming " one of the Major developments in Ireland ".

Tesco Ireland is the Irish arm of supermarket group Tesco and controls 28 % of the grocery market.

Tesco Ireland currently operates a number of 24 hour stores.

Tesco Ireland was also the name of an earlier chain of stores in the Republic of Ireland acquired by Tesco in the early 1980s.

Tesco Bray, displaying the " white-on-blue " Tesco Ireland logo being phased out

A 2002 example of a Colombian diplomat in London being prosecuted for the manslaughter of a man who mugged his son in a Tesco car park was deemed in the public interest once diplomatic immunity was waived by the Colombian government.

This was essentially a simple expansion of the UK scheme ( see above )-cards for this are physically identical to those used by Tesco in the UK and they can be used in both countries.

In 2004 Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco and alumnus was the last Chancellor of UMIST, and the Vice Chancellor was fittingly a chemical engineer, Prof John Garside.

The album was then leaked on the Tesco website in late August revealing the tracklisting and the name, entitled Take the Crown.

In 2008, Tesco changed supermarket checkout signs reading " Ten items or less " after complaints that it was bad grammar ; it switched to " Up to ten items " rather than " Ten items or fewer " at the suggestion of the Plain English Campaign.

A long battle of words between local activists and local companies and Tesco was eventually solved when the mega retailer obtained planning permission to build a supermarket on Corve Street, but only after agreeing to conform to the architectural demands of the local council.

Retail jobs in the town increased in number in 2006 – 2007 when a new shopping development, including a large supermarket owned by Tesco, clothes store and other retailers, was constructed on a site just south of the town centre which had once been a factory making Clarks shoes and later Doc Martens boots.

Hatch End was also previously home to The Railway public house ; the site on which it once stood is now home to a Tesco Express store.

Ickenham's residents ' association was established in 1924, and it plays an active role within the community ; in recent years the association has been involved in preventing developments by Tesco and Ikea, which in the association's view would have adversely affected the town.

Planning permission was granted in 2005 to demolish a multistorey car park at the south end of the High Street, and replace it with a large Tesco supermarket.

In 2006, further change was on the cards as Tesco proposed to replace the store with a 6-storey building containing affordable flats above a new store.

Their original ground, known as Lower Mead, was located behind the ABC Cinema ( now the Safari Cinema ) on Station Road, prior to its controversial sale to Tesco for retail development.

On 8 November 2010 a new Tesco supermarket was opened, along with new apartments above the store.

The restaurant was never built, but the site is now occupied by a block of modern apartments next to a Tesco Express store and ESSO service station.

He rose to fame after winning the " Sexiest man in County Down " competition when he was just fourteen and has since began modelling for big companies like Asda and Tesco.

Land to the south was developed, and the area is now known as either the Hammonds Ridge estate or Tesco estate due to its proximity to the supermarket, which was built at a similar time.

Tesco were seeking to open a store in the town ; however, this was opposed by many locals and the planning application was rejected.

As this was initially only introduced into selected stores on a trial basis, however, Tesco is able to claim the title for the first nationwide introduction of a loyalty Card, with Clubcard.

The problem was how to distinguish Safeway from Tesco and Sainsbury's, and how to minimise its scale disadvantage.

According to estimates made by the Competition Commission, Tesco was able to negotiate significantly lower prices from its suppliers than Safeway – averaging about 3 per cent on big-selling branded items.

Today, along with Tesco, it is one of the largest employers in the town.

The Tesco Extra store to the west of the town is the largest supermarket in Abingdon and one of the most profitable Tesco stores in the country.

It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world ( with 1, 395 hypermarkets at the end of 2009, the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and third largest in profit after Wal-Mart and Tesco ).

The Tesco store in Cromwell Road was one of three stores ( the other two being in Kent ) chosen to run an initial trial of the Clubcard loyalty card.

In 2008, British food retailer Tesco called Lancashire hotpot one of the most endangered recipes in British cuisine.

In Phase 1 one of the main changes has been the replacement of the existing small Tesco with a large Tesco Extra.

There are two Tesco Express stores in Yate: one on Station Road and one in Brimsham Park.

These were partly demolished in the 1980s to make way for a Tesco Extra supermarket on one side and an office block complex on the other.

The Kingston Shopping Centre, which includes one of the UK's largest Tesco stores, a McDonald's and a Dominos Pizza outlet, is nearby.

Also in April 2011, supermarket giant Tesco submitted plans to build a new store, around a year after their plans to build one in the centre of the town were rejected.

Evidence of these lines can still be seen within the town, including two standalone sections of railway viaduct, one near the Tesco store and the other now carrying a footpath between Springhill Road and the Woodside Park in Upper Auchenback ( known locally as the Jerries ).

There are two fuelling stations in Westhill, one owned by Tesco and one serviced by BP.

Tesco used “ Change for Good ” as advertising, which is trade marked by Unicef for charity usage but is not trademarked for commercial or retail use which prompted the agency to say " it is the first time in Unicef ’ s history that a commercial entity has purposely set out to capitalise on one of our campaigns and subsequently damage an income stream which several of our programmes for children are dependent on ”. They went on to call on the public “ who have children ’ s welfare at heart, to consider carefully who they support when making consumer choices ”.

Ferndown Community Centre is one of the town's main attractions, home of the Barrington Theatre in the main shopping centre at Penny's Walk, which also includes a large Tesco supermarket and the local branch of the county library.

It has a pharmacy, a convenience store, two newsagents / post offices ( one in Springvale, one in old Kings Worthy ), a Tesco Express, a kitchen display shop, a hairdresser, a fishing store, an Indian take-away and a doctor's surgery.

There is one other 99 RON fuel available in the UK, namely Tesco MOMENTUM99.

With another Asda and Morrisons store plus Sainsburys, Tesco and Waitrose stores and several towns nearby, Donnington is one of the best food retail-served suburbs in the country.

Most of the expected facilities one would expect to find in a small town are here, including a supermarket, petrol station and many cafes ( including a Starbucks and a Costa, a Subway, Tesco Express and Budgens ).