Sentence examples for dark stores from inspiring English sources
But while Tesco has six dark stores, Sainsbury's is only just opening its first.
Asda opened a dot.com distribution site in Nottingham last spring, adding to dark stores in Leeds and Enfield.
Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Waitrose all have plans to open new dark stores over the coming year or two.
Tesco now has five "dark stores", where employees assemble customers' online orders, to serve its web business.
The UK's biggest online grocer opened two dark stores in 2013 and has previously said it is scouting for further sites in Birmingham and Manchester.
Around 1.8m sq ft of warehouse space is devoted to dark stores, but that is set to increase as online shopping transforms the retail sector.
In Hanger Lane, west London, Waitrose operates a dark store in an old John Lewis carpet warehouse.
Some will become "dark store" warehouse spaces to serve internet customers.
Tesco is expected to open its seventh dark store in Didcot, Oxfordshire, later this year.
Well, there's a new future now: the "dark store", the supermarket that we never see at all.
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