Tesco has expanded its Marketplace website, which lists products for sale from third-party sellers.
Tesco Marketplace now stocks more than 300,000 products – up by more than 3,000% from when the website launched in June 2024. Some of the new categories now included on Tesco Marketplace are: large home appliances, art and craft supplies, curtains and blinds, posters and prints, model train sets and collectables.
The website now reads: “Your one-stop shop just got a whole lot bigger, now with over 300,000 products delivered direct by our sellers. From the essentials to the unexpected, we’ve got it all. Why not take a look around?” At its launch, Tesco Marketplace director Peter Filcek told The Grocer it wants shoppers to have a “one-stop shop” for everything they need.
He said: “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.”
Orders are delivered separately from your grocery shop, with marketplace items incurring their own, separate delivery fees. However, you still earn Tesco Clubcard points on all purchases. All the sellers who use Tesco Marketplace are monitored on delivery speed, returns, and delivery success rates.
This isn’t the first time Tesco has had its own online marketplace. In 2006, the retailer launched Tesco Direct, a service which offered non-food items on its website. This lasted until 2018, when it ceased trading as Tesco was unable to find a way to make it profitable. Mr Filcek said of the new marketplace: “We’re now able to meet really quantified customer demand in a way that we could never mobilise a retail supply chain to do. So we’ll go where the customers tell us to go, where the opportunities are.”
It comes after a Tesco shopper flagged a “genius” meal deal option that shoppers may not be aware of. Nathan Lorenzo, a 27-year-old Tesco employee, took to TikTok to reveal you can now choose a soup as your meal deal snack – something which he said is perfect for the cold weather.
He said: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Tesco are now doing – wait for it – soup in the meal deal, and I think this is absolute genius from Tesco because it’s absolutely freezing in the UK right now. And what do you do when you’re cold? You have soup, or something hot!”
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