Hypermarket Tesco Flagship Store.(Newcastle, England)(Brief Article)

NEWCASTLE, England -- Anyone who is familiar with retailing in the United Kingdom and is acquainted with the Tesco hypermarket in this industrial and mining city in the north of England knows as well that this is Tesco's flagship, the culmination of the retailer's efforts to develop and perfect a hypermarket in the U.K.

Tesco's year-old (it opened last November) 130,000-square-foot (100,000 square feet of selling space), freestanding Newcastle Extra store boasts all that is new and much that is exciting at Tesco: the nonfood segment's array of general merchandise catego