Tesco and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to agree to buy stores off the Co-operative group (Co-op) so its purchase of Somerfield can go ahead.
It is understood Tesco will take 15 venues and Waitrose 13.
Regulator the Office of Fair Trading said the Co-op must sell 26 stores before the acquisition is finalised to ease competition concerns, according to Property Week.
In total the co-op must ultimately sell 126 stores under the terms of the deal.
Last week it was reported that Morrisons plans to buy 38 stores off the Co-op.
And Somerfield today revealed that it posted like-for-like sales growth of 5.4% in the six months to the start of November.
