In a typical Gome store, half the floorspace is dedicated to special product displays.

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Specifically, the tablet was spotted in the floorspace occupied by LG's new series of WiFi-connected Thinq appliances sporting an LG home automation skin or app.

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Mr Clark says the store's expansion, which will increase non-food floorspace to more than 2600 sq m (27, 986 sq ft), will put Sainsbury's in direct competition with a number of town centre shops.

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The government reckons the schemes it has approved in the past three years are responsible for creating about 50, 000 jobs, building 2m square metres of industrial and commercial floorspace and bringing about 1, 500 hectares of land back into use.

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