Tesco Cuts 1,600 Roles With Shift to Daytime Shelf-Stacking
- News comes as Tesco said it will shut Jack’s discount chain
- Tesco is closing some meat counters as shopping habits shift
A Jack's discount store in Chatteris, U.K.
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Tesco Plc said it’s cutting 1,600 jobs as it revamps how stores operate overnight and shuts its experimental discount chain Jack’s, citing changing shopping habits during the pandemic.
Britain’s largest supermarket chain is shifting overnight stock replenishment to daytime at 85 stores and converting petrol stations to pay-at-pump only at night for 36 locations, according to a statement Tuesday. The changes come just hours after Tesco announced it was closing meat, fish and hot deli counters at 317 stores where they’re in low demand and shutting Jack’s, a low-cost chain with 13 stores.