Tesco is one of the worlds leading international retailers. Since the company first the trading name of Tesco, in the mid 1920s, the group has expanded into different formats, different markets and different sectors. The UKs leading retailer Tesco was floated on the stock exchange in 1947 and in 1995 took over rival Sainsburys position as the UK number one. The principal activity of the group is food retailing, with over 2,000 stores worldwide. Tesco has a long term strategy for growth, based on four key parts: growth in the Core UK business, to expand by growing internationally, to be as strong in non-food as in food and to follow customers into new retailing services. The company launched a home shopping service in 2000, allowing customers to order their shopping online. Tesco is now expanding its convenience stores and overseas into areas such as Taiwan, Malaysia, Poland, the US and Ireland.

Upper graph = 12 month share price with 6 month moving average
Lower graph = 12 month volume (red line = volume average).

lol.

In a sea of blue TSCO red

I suppose it did rise 2.6% yesterday on an otherwise big down day.

Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco (LSE: TSCO.L - news) has reported its worst performance in 20 years with another fall in sales in its half-yearly results.

TSCO v SBRY.

I am going to sell my large holding in tesco .
and boycott the shops along with some other people .
we are fade up of them employing migrants and not locals
as an investor i do not like this as migrants only spend there spare cash
in the pound shops and yes i have done my looking go on a saturday and 6 out of 10 will not speak english . no wonder the company is going bad they are shooting them selves in the foot we need to employ people who spend there wages in this country not send there money out of the UK

Director Andrew Higginson sold 350,000 @403.0 value 1,412.005 maybe he agrees with TANKER, or just doing a spot of early Chrimbo shopping? Still holds 1,502,222

mail today ABEL @COLE i have bought this product and it rots before you use it
it is not very good tasteless and not worth buying

Bit of a punt, interim 06/12 Long @ 383.4 (SB)

Stop moved to 393.4 to lock in + 10

As previously announced on 11 May 2011, Sir Richard Broadbent takes over as Chairman of Tesco Plc from David Reid today.

Stop to 398.4 to lock in + 15

Stop to 403.4 to lock in + 20

Closed @ 406.0 +22.6

Well done - now work the same magic into lloy please.

Thanks kernow, wish I could mate :O)

Limit Buy left @ 412.0 Tgt 420.0 Stop 406.0
Limit Sell left @ 398.0 Tgt 383.0 Stop 406.0 Spred bets.

Confident that you have made the right decision then CC? !!!!!! ;o)

Nope!

Thursday's trading update from Tesco should also give a good insight into what sort of Christmas the supermarkets can expect.