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÷ David Potts was 14 when he got his first job at a greengrocer ÷ He left school at 16 after failing all five O-levels ÷ Potts, right, got a job as a shelf-stacker at Tesco in 1973 ÷ Aged 24, he became Tesco’s youngest store manager ÷ He eventually ran Tesco in Ireland and then Asia ÷ He left in 2011 after failing to land the top job ÷ In March 2015 he became chief executive of Morrisons ÷ The supermarket’s shares are up 30pc since he joined ÷ Now 61, Potts has two sons, Dan and George, and a partner, Jane