SHOPPERS had to evacuate Tesco in Kidderminster after a fire in a bakery oven pumped smoke around the massive superstore.
About 100 customers had to leave the Castle Road store when the electrical fire broke out at about 4.20pm on Monday.
A member of the management team tackled the blaze with a fire extinguisher and firefighters then dealt with what was left of the fire when they arrived.
The store reopened at 7.15pm that evening.
Duty manager, Richard Barnes, said: "We evacuated the site in less than two minutes.
"We decided to set the alarms off to evacuate the store because of the amount of smoke."
Sub-officer Mick Rowlands, of Kidderminster Fire Station, said the plastic coating around electrical wires had caused the store to fill with smoke.
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