U Select is a chain of

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operated by China Resources Vanguard, originally in partnership with

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. At least one third of the products sold in the store came from overseas supermarket chains. As part of Tesco's decision to cease international product sales due to Brexit, U Select instead started stocking Coles products from December 2021, and also begun stocking

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products from May 2022.

History

On 18 August 2013, China Resources Enterprise's supermarket chain Vanguard and British supermarket Tesco signed a "memorandum of understanding", intending to set up a joint venture interest group in

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and

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, operating hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, liquor stores and cash and carry businesses. China Resources and Tesco are holding an 80% and a 20% share respectively. In April 2015, China Resources opened the first U Select supermarkets, with the first two stores opening on 18 April 2015 in Prince Edward Road West and Bellagio Mall. In June 2015, the third branch opened on Main Street East, Shau Kei Wan. On 17 September 2015, the tenth branch (the second outlet in Kowloon) opened at Hip Wo Street in Cheung Wo Court, Kwun Tong. As of May 2018, there were 37 stores. As of February 2021, there are 67 stores. As of July 2021, there are 75 stores.

Store types

U Select

The original branches of U Select had a blue colour scheme and were originally intended to be a value chain, previously only taking cash and not credit/debit cards.

U Select Food

In June 2019, the first U Select Food was opened in South Horizons, with others opening later. U Select Food outlets had more foreign products (especially food), less non-food products, and used a black colour scheme.

U Select Mini

On 22 April 2021, the first U Select Mini opened on King's Road, a converted VanGO convenience store from the same family. There were only two U Select Mini outlets, both located on Hong Kong Island.

Locations

All the original locations were converted from Vanguard supermarkets with other locations added later:

Hong Kong Island

* 26 stores

Kowloon

* 28 stores

New Territories

* 21 stores

References

External links

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Video promoting U Select's worldwide Tesco product selection
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