Bag of spuds, a loaf, & Britney please

As a further step towards total world domination Tesco is to face off with another mega company, Apple.

You local grocery giant is to start to offer a download service for Digital music.
set to launch next month.

Tesco’s music download service will initially offer in excess of three million tracks to teen boy band fans and aging rockers. One and a half million tracks will be DRM, free MP3. The remainder will be available only through Windows, but the company claims that these will also become DRM-free at some point.

The big question in the music business will be, is Tesco the company to finally break Apples iTunes near total monopoly of the music download market? The company also intends to move quickly into movies and game downloads, as well as popular UK and US, TV shows.

Tesco would not yet confirm how much these downloads will cost music fans, but the companies reputation is built on being competitively priced, in all the various business markets it operates in.