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Wed 11 Nov 2007US could be super market for Tesco expansionLondon Briefing:From the collapse of the Qatari bid for Sainsbury's on Monday to the publication of the UK Competition Commission's long-awaited report on the supermarket sector a week ago, it has been a tumultuous time for Britain's £123 billion-a-year (€176.4 billion) food retail industry, writes Fiona WalshAcross the Atlantic, UK market leader Tesco is taking on its biggest challenge yet as it makes its first move into the world's most competitive grocery market. The launch of Tesco's Fresh & Easy stores in southern California is the culmination of years of meticulous planning by the group. It is confident it can avoid the fate suffered by so many other UK retailers, including Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's, for whom the American market has proved such a graveyard in recent decades.