Tesco now has more than 20,000 SKUs available from third party sellers on its new online marketplace, representing an increase of more than double the range it had two months ago.
According to The Grocer, around 9,000 products were listed when the website, which offers items from categories such as baby, toys, beauty, homeware, garden, DIY and petcare, launched in early June, however this number has rocketed to over 20,000 since.
At the time of the launch, Tesco marketplace director Peter Filcek said: “We were looking at customer searches on our websites and we found things that we just don’t carry in Tesco [stores] or online, and so that prompted a stream of thinking around what we could do to open up that range, to give customers what they’re looking for because they were genuinely looking for all sorts of things.”
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He has since told the publication that the supermarket giant is “really excited about expanding Marketplace over the next few months”.
The retailer hopes that at full operational scale, the marketplace will provide “a one-stop shop for everything customers need”.
It isn’t the first time the grocer has explored the concept of a marketplace.
In 2012, it launched a marketplace on Tesco Direct. However, due to the loss-making venture was ditched in 2018.
Last year, Sainsbury’s also considered the launch of an online marketplace for high street fashion brands.
