Slow growth takes shine off Tesco budget chain Jack's a year on

Supermarket giant opened just 10 discount chain stores, with job cuts and sales of £24mWhen Tesco unveiled its discount chain Jack’s a year ago hopes were high it could pose a serious threat to Aldi and Lidl. A year on fewer stores than expected have opened with recent job losses raising questions about its success.At the media circus that greeted the first store in the small Cambridgeshire town of Chatteris in September 2018, Tesco boss Dave Lewis said 10-15 Jack’s stories wou