The convenience stores market, which includes Sainsbury's Local and Tesco Express stores, is seeing annual growth of 6%.

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An average store charges 15% more than a supermarket, while a Tesco Express or Sainsbury's Local charges only 3-4% extra.

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Developer Pigeon hopes to start work on the site in May and said a Tesco Express could be open by Christmas.

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The fire service said two Tesco Express stores in Waterlooville had been destroyed by fire in recent years - on Lavender Road in September 2011 and on Grassmere Way in July 2010.

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Police had released footage of Miss Yeates buying a pizza at a Tesco Express near her Clifton home on 17 December, the night she was last seen, which they believed could provide a vital clue.

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Among other innovations, it set up Tesco Express, combining convenience stores and petrol retailing, Tesco Metro, the small, urban stores and a small number of much larger stores on the hypermarket model including its flagship Tesco Kensington store.

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Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Market Stores come closest to that format, but with an average floor space of 42, 000 square feet, they will still be much larger than Tesco's Express format in the U.K., which is 14, 000 square feet and expected to be similar to its upcoming U.S. stores.

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The Daily Express reckons it may just be Tesco worker Helen Dwyer.

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