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Numbers I found vary but Tesco has around 3500 stores in the UK alone alongside other chains they have a hand in. They also have a large online presence, click and collect operations, estates, data collection schemes and a whole logistics network to operate. I'd have actually thought it would be higher than ~11 VMs per store.


That works out to ~11 computers/licenses per store, which sounds a tad high but also very easy to do if you let new system accrete over time and factor in the need for offline operations and redundancy across regions.


The cashier register is probably running on a vmware.




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