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Marritt Close, CHATTERIS, PE16 6PJ

The new roundabout leads to the newly built Tesco but the £22 million development has been mothballed. Tesco are reviewing their plans after falling market share, falling profits and a huge accountancy 'issue' of overstating profits. It may still open but by not employing any staff it gives them time to decide what is the best plan for the site. See http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/03/tesco-expansion-policy-hold-chatteris-ghost-store for more details.

This is the pedestrian link under Fenland way between Chatteris and the store, but the store has been mothballed.

The store is built, the cycle path and underpass made but only the cycle path is open. See http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/03/tesco-expansion-policy-hold-chatteris-ghost-store

The store has been mothballed. See http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/03/tesco-expansion-policy-hold-chatteris-ghost-store for more details.

A real sign of the times. This £22 million development will not be opened as planned as Tesco review their plans after falling market share, falling profits and a huge accountancy 'issue' of overstating profits. It may still open but by not employing any staff it gives them time to decide what is the best plan for the site. See http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/03/tesco-expansion-policy-hold-chatteris-ghost-store for more details.

Some years ago Tesco intended to open a standard size Tesco supermarket on the current edge of Chatteris. But tough trading conditions meant a rethink and so the store never opened but was put in mothballs. Then last year in order to compete with Lidl, Aldi & other discounters, Tesco decided to run their own discount chain using the brand name Jack's. This was the name of their founder Jack Cohen. The store building at Chatteris was partly utilised as the first Jack's store, opening on the 19th September 2018. Part of the building, the left end, is let to Poundstretcher, a discount store, and part of the building, the right end, is currently (June 2019) available to let. Since this Jack's store opened another nine or so have opened but it seems, at present, that only about five more are planned. The new idea is that the most popular Jack's lines will be sold in a large number of Tesco supermarkets. Whether this will be a successful move against the discounters remains to be seen. Both Aldi & Lidl have hundreds of stores in the UK and are still opening more.

A new brand for Tesco to compete with low cost stores, Aldi and Lidl especially. The shop takes about half of what was originally built as a Tesco store but never opened, see Image

Now a pointless roundabout as the store has been mothballed and the second exit also currently leads to nowhere.