Tesco enters local store market in Czech Republic

The retailer Tesco is to compete with smaller grocery shops in the Czech Republic with the opening of "Expres" stores in urban areas. Tesco, which runs 84 shopping centres, supermarkets and hypermarkets in the Czech Republic, is to open its first small shop on Prague's Belehradska on Tuesday. It plans to open ten more local stores in the capital within two years.