Tesco Gears Up For Online Fight With Amazon

Monday 20th May

Tesco Gears Up For Online Fight With Amazon

Posted at 6:58AM Monday 04 Mar 2013

Tesco has hired one of Facebook's most senior European executives and is launching a slew of online entertainment stores as it gears up for battle with Amazon.

The supermarket giant is preparing to launch two specialist ebook and music retail websites later this year, alongside the Blinkbox online movie store which it already owns.

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