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Supermarkets branch out to car insurance

September 20, 2007 by admin  
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Over recent years supermarket giants in the UK have branched out enormously and in addition to offering groceries and household goods many have also been offering a wide range of financial products, such as loans, credit cards, insurance products and even banking facilities.

According to a recent report, Tesco has now gone a step further and has launched a price comparison website for those looking for deals on car insurance in the UK.

There are already a rising number of price comparison websites in operation for car insurance, and Tesco will be joining this long line of comparison sites with its news venture Tesco Compare.com, which has been launched in conjunction with the Royal Bank of Scotland. The site will be launched in mid-September, but consumers should be aware that there will be a limited number of insurance companies that are used in the comparison, which totals around twenty in all.

As has been the trend in other sectors, this move by Tesco could result in other supermarket giants also setting up similar sites, which means that the huge number of price comparison sites could balloon even further in the near future. As with other price comparison sites customers will be able to enter their details into the Tesco website in order to search for the best deal on car insurance, but this will be from between the companies listed by Tesco.

Amongst the insurance companies that will be listed are some RBS ones, including Churchill, and consumers are reminded that because of the limited number of insurance companies that will be listed there could be better deals available from other insurance companies that are not listed on the Tesco site. 

Tom Smith
20th September 2007

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