Every little village helps ... Tesco has drawn up plans for four developmentsTHEY sell everything from baked beans to baths - and now Tesco want to put a roof over your head.
Britain's biggest supermarket chain have drawn up plans for four "mini villages" in and around London.
The developments will each include a Tesco store as well as hundreds of new homes.
One project in Woolwich, south-east London, includes plans for a supermarket, library, civic centre and 900 homes - all masterminded by Tesco's development arm, Spen Hill.
Other schemes are planned for Streatham, Bromley-by-Bow and Dartford, Kent.
Tesco already take ?1 in nearly every ?7 spent on the UK's High Streets.
But the latest plans mean shoppers could soon buy a Tesco home, with a Tesco mortgage and stock it full of furniture from Tesco's catalogue arm.
Superstore ... how Tesco faresEvery little helps.
However, the superstore's latest move has been slammed by Left wing think-tank The New Economics Foundation (NEF).
NEF researcher Josh Ryan-Collins claimed Tesco could soon be more powerful than the GOVERNMENT given the personal information it would hold. He said: "The one way supermarkets can ensure they get planning permission is to offer these sweeteners. It has got to the point where someone needs to make a decision about how far they're prepared to let Tesco go."
Tesco are the undoubted business success story of the past 15 years.
From being smaller than Sainsbury's, they now rake in ?62.5BILLION of cash at their tills in 14 countries every year.
They have a ?1billion clothing business in the UK and flog CDs, films and furniture.
They have also moved into telecoms with Tesco Mobile and are now gearing up to attack the banks. Tesco Bank already offers personal loans, savings accounts and credit cards. And this autumn it will offer mortgages for the first time.

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