Let me repeat myself, then:
"Tesco got into this part of the country by taking over Irwins (about 1960-61).
All the Irwins were rebranded as Tesco.
Irwins had more shops than Tesco needed, so there was a lot of thinning out."
I worked for them at the time.
I don't know much about the subsequent takeovers, or Tesco's activities in other parts of the country.
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