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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

RARE PHOTOS: Tesco to close jack s discount chain of shops - The Real Truth

Products are seen at a branch of Jack's in Chatteris
Jack’s was created to win back shoppers from Aldi and Lidl. Photograph: Chris Radburn/Reuters

Tesco is closing its Jack’s discount chain, created to win back shoppers from Aldi and Lidl, less than four years after it was launched.

Britain’s biggest grocer opened the first Jack’s stores – named after the supermarket’s founder, Jack Cohen – in September 2018, in Chatteris in Cambridgeshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire, with a promise to be “the cheapest in town”.

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