Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market: What Others Area Saying; Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Fresh & Easy Manhattan Beach, Southern California, Store Grand Opening

Today's Los Angeles Times on the Manhattan Beach store grand opening: "Fresh & Easy sets up shop a few paces from rival Trader Joe's."

Southern California's South Bay Biz Waves Blog on today's Manhattan Beach Fresh & Easy grand opening event: Fresh & Easy Store Opens in MB

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Fan Blogger Oakmonster on her day at the Fresh & Easy Manhattan Beach grand opening.

TV Tim Mason

CNBC Cable Channel 'Funny Business' host Jane Wells' July 1, 2008 video interview with Tesco Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market CEO Tim Mason. View the video and read what Ms. Wells has to say here.

Fresh & Easy Arizona Market

The Arizona Republic: First new Arizona Fresh & Easy grocery market to open after the three month new store opening break will open in central Phoenix on July 30. Read about it here.

Competitor Notes

Nevada Appeal: Trader Joe's uses farmers' market in Carson City, Nevada (northern Nevada) as a promotional outlet opportunity.

True Crime blogger, Trials and Tribulations blog, tells about the experience of standing next to former Hollywood actor Robert Blake, who was acquited of murdering his wife after a long trial last year, for a prolonged period of time at a Southern California Trader Joe's. Read the story, "Dinner Shopping Beside Robert Blake," here. It's worth a look.