Tesco has officially launched a new online marketplace, currently containing some 9,000 third-party products including toys, homeware, garden, DIY and pet care.
Originally reported by The Grocer, the new marketplace will make Tesco ‘a one stop shop for everything customers need’.
The platform currently hosts around 17 sellers, which are joined by an initial selection of brands including Charles Bentley, Diageo, Tefal, Tommee Tippee and Silentnight.
The marketplace’s third-party products are listed alongside Tesco groceries on its website and app, but are fulfilled directly by the supplier.
“Ultimately it all boils down to wanting to give our customers access to more than we carry,” Peter Filcek, Tesco marketplace director, told The Grocer. “We were looking at customer searches on our websites and we found things that we just don’t carry in Tesco [stores] or online, and so that prompted a stream of thinking around what we could do to open up that range, to give customers what they’re looking for because they were genuinely looking for all sorts of things.”
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