United Kingdom · Company filings
Where Tesco’s store network grew in its 2025 reporting year
Tesco reported 5,040 group locations including franchises at its 2025 year-end, up from 4,942. Its UK count excluding franchises rose by 43, while UK One Stop franchises increased by 37.
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2024 year-end
Shared scale · 0 stores to 3,829 stores
2025 year-end
Shared scale · 0 stores to 3,829 stores
The comparison follows the same network categories at each year-end.
Openings and closures explain the net change
The group reported 145 openings and 47 closures or disposals when it included franchises. That produced a net gain of 98 locations. The year-end columns show the resulting footprint at each reporting date. Source 1
The largest market included several store networks
Tesco counted 3,829 UK locations excluding franchises at the 2025 year-end. Its table includes Tesco stores, company-operated One Stop stores and Booker in that number. The separate franchise row lists another 354 UK One Stop locations. Source 1
Slovakia supplied most of Central Europe’s net gain
The Czech Republic reported three openings and three closures or disposals outside its franchises. Hungary added one location and Slovakia added ten. That brought the three markets’ combined reported count excluding franchises to 561. Source 1
Store count describes locations, while area describes space
Tesco publishes a separate selling-space table. A convenience outlet, a wholesaler and a large supermarket can count as one location each while occupying very different amounts of space. The table here tracks locations and how the count changed. Source 1