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Tesco has announced plans to axe up to 9,000 jobs in the United Kingdom as part of the next stage of a vast restructuring programme.
The largest retailer in the UK employs about 300,000 staff out of a total global workforce of 440,000, and said it would try to find new roles for up to half of those affected.
“Overall, we estimate that up to 9,000 Tesco colleague roles could be impacted, however, our expectation is that up to half of these colleagues could be redeployed to other customer-facing roles,” the supermarket said in a statement.
“In our four years of turnaround we’ve made good progress, but the market is challenging and we need to continually adapt to remain competitive,” said Britain and Ireland CEO Jason Tarry.
A spokeswoman for Tesco Ireland said that the changes only related to the company’s activities in the UK.
“Like any business we are always looking at ways to run our business more simply and efficiently so our colleagues can focus on serving customers,” a spokeswoman told TheJournal.ie.
“Whenever we make changes in our business, colleagues are always the first to know.”
Self-service kitchens
Tesco said jobs would go as it planned to shut counters at some stores serving items such as fresh fish, meat and cheeses.
The company also intends to simplify the way it controls stocks of goods, as well as reducing head office numbers and shutting staff canteens for self-service kitchen facilities.
“We expect that around 90 stores will close their counters, with the remaining 700 trading with either a full or flexible counter offer for our customers,” Tesco said in today’s statement.
Tarry added: “We’re making changes to our UK stores and head office to simplify what we do and how we do it, so we’re better able to meet the needs of our customers.”
Tesco’s share price closed down 1.7 percent at 221 pence on London’s FTSE 100 index, which lost 0.9 percent overall.
More than 10,000 jobs have been cut at Tesco since chief executive Dave Lewis took charge in 2014 with the brief to save £1.5 billion (€1.7 billion).
The group rebounded into annual net profit last year on strong sales and restructuring following a net loss of £40 million in 2016/2017, when it was hurt by costs arising from an accounting fiasco.
The company has been dogged in recent years by fierce domestic competition from discounters including Lidl and Aldi, which shoppers flocked to following the global financial crisis.
- © AFP 2019 with reporting from Stephen McDermott
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Seems like this is going to become a regular occurrence, surely these people know exactly what they are doing, legislation is seriously required…………
@Julie: Agree they know what they are doing, but already have laws and legislation regarding the use of drones near airports and other locations. The people doing this just don’t care.
@Julie: as I said in the previous event… they need a mechanism to stop it. It’s already illegal. Ireland has plenty of laws, enforcement is lacking.
@Richard: good drones can’t fly in restricted areas, they literally land. But cheap ones with no GPS can
@Richard: It’s the DAA’s responsibility. They have bird scaring processes on site. Time to start drone watching now.
@Dave Harris: unfortunately cheap clones of brand name drones like DJI are readily available and there are a lot of 5tup1d people around
@Dave Harris: Maybe drones without GPS should be banned or heavily regulated then.
@Tomo: Totally agree, flight safety for commercial airlines far outweighs the ‘amusement’ of toy drone enthusiasts.
Obviously the little guy got a quad off Santa and now for his birthday his delightful family bought him a drone. Took 10 months from Alibaba but arrived just on time .
@Murph11: this is exactly it. The law unabiding citizens of Ireland.
@Murph11: a fresh batch of m0r0ns, allowing the lowest common denominator to dictate. There needs to be more gene splicing with particular people.
Good luck waiting for sleepy Eamo to spring into action
You are surely not expecting Eamon Ryan to do anything are you? You have to wake him up and remind him where he is first.
A major crackdown on these muppets is long overdue. Putting the safety of flights and their passengers at risk is a cowardly act.
Pellet gun. Job done.
@Brian Costigan: Shotgun. More chance of hitting it.
@Brian Costigan: shotgun you mean
Far right nut job no doubt.
I wish media would stop reporting these events, sadly leads to more copycat events.
Shoot them down. People will think twice then
@Kevin O’Brien: they will only buy twice. This would be a badge of honour for the m0r0ns and their drones.
Are they sure it’s not a Chinese Spy balloon. Where are the photos?.
@Padraig: Here is your solution DAA. You can thank me later.
@Padraig: a bargain at just under 11 grand in fairness! Often have had to fork out 15 or 20 grand for one!
I might be off the mark here, but I could see this issue being the fault of airlines pulling out of here altogether if it persists.
@Declan Moran: that’ll never happen. There are drone incidents all over the world, The drone industry will suffer way before the airline industry does.
Why are they not shot down .
Hans, bubby, I’m your white knight,
We need to get them birds of prey that are trained to take them down.
Ask the UN for ground to air missiles or use a pop gun . They can not be that hard to hit. Overthinking this, I think.
Get the American Air force to shoot them down as spying balloons
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