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Yorkie bars can't be replicated, it seems, and nor can Lea and Perrins sauce or, for that matter, Tampax or Coca-Cola. There's an onus here on people getting in and out quickly.

There's an app that lets you tot up your shopping as you go along so you can rush through payment. I reckon you could comfortably amble round the Chatteris shop in 10 minutes, collecting a basket of shopping as you go.

And you will, of course, pass through the central spine of the shop, branded as the "when it's gone, it's gone" area. This was the home for the one-off items, the things that crop up at Aldi or Lidl and entice you.

The punchline to the story of when you went out to buy milk and came back with a tyre-wrench and a heated blanket. In Jack's, there was a dog basket, a Star Wars light tempting , obligatory unicorns, things for mobile phones and so many other things.

To this shopper, it felt a little bit forced and incoherent - but maybe that incoherence is the point. You never know what's going to crop up, or when you might fancy buying a dog basket on impulse. One person's bric-a-brac is another person's bargain.

There are clues to the parentage. The packaging around the fresh vegetables looks similar to the Tesco equivalents, and the descriptions are often identical.

Some of the Jack's products are, clearly, Tesco own-brand equivalents with different labels and a lower price. But mostly, this feels like a different shop. Video: Tesco Watford. Video: What do the customers think? Printer friendly version. Harpers Newsletters Subscribe. Jobs ». Digital Editions. Harpers Wine and Spirit Harpers latest digital edition, plus all archived editions, can be found here. Wine Stars Awards Judged by buyers for buyers, the only wine competition assessing quality, value and design for a rigorous audit of each entry.

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Tesco's first discount store Jack's in Cambridgeshire was packed with shoppers this morning Thurs - with some queuing from 3am. The Chatteris store enjoyed a successful first morning with hundreds pouring through the doors when it opened to the public at 10am. Shoppers, some of whom had been queuing for several hours, were greeted with champagne, bacon sandwiches and cupcakes.

Picture dated September 20th shows the first shoppers in a busy Jack's store in Chatteris Cambs,which opened to the public today. A trolley in a supermarket aisle lined with shelves, London, England, UK. Chinese family shopping inside Tesco supermarket. Aisle shelves displaying packaged dairy produce Songjiang, Shanghai, China. UK, Britain A variety of bottles of fizzy soft drinks sugary for sale on a Tesco supermarket aisle shelves.

While these initiatives could spell the beginning of the end for the supermarket checkout — fuelling fears that automation could eventually eliminate millions of retail jobs — they are seen to be attractive to the time-pressed shoppers who frequent busy city centre stores.

The Express store is also being used to test how shoppers cope in what is fast becoming a cashless world. Debit card payments have now overtaken cash as the most popular form of transaction in the UK for the first time, according to recent banking industry figures. Consumers used their debit cards