Tesco To Cut 1,700 Shop Floor Jobs

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42779698

Just a short time ago, Tesco were opening new stores right, left, and Centre. Now they are cutting staff.

Looks like they are feeling the pinch....perhaps from Lidl and Aldi ?

[Bazile]

Every little helps .
In this case 1700 littles

[Mamyalynne]

Growth in competition coupled with more and more customers shopping online, bound to happen sadly.

[EcclesCake]

From past experience of being served at the checkout by a supervisor if in control of Tesco I too would cut staff. I would then recruit worthy individuals who didn't have to share a brain cell.

[emmie]

maybe, or they are automating so don't need as many people.

[murraymints]

Yup... all supermarkets have taken a bit from ALDI and LIDL I suspect

[murraymints]

Hit ^^

[cassa333]

I don't know what everyone is complaining about. It will all be automated like the Amazon shop in The states. So you won't need any checkout staff.

[hc4361]

Tesco is building a large distribution centre in my area that will solely be for online shopping. It will stock all the goods and have the facilities for loading the vans and cleaning the vans and baskets that they use.
They will be redeploying existing staff and recruiting new staff as pickers, drivers, cleaners etc.
I would be very surprised if this is to be the only such facility in the country so although they are reducing shop floor staff they are increasing staff in other areas.
There is a huge 24 hour Tesco near me and I can see things are changing. They have reduced the floor space given to TVs, computers, washing machines and increased the space for small kitchen applicances, homewares and clothing so they are adapting to the market.

[Bathsheba]

Anyone know what a "compliance officer " does?
Baths
x x x

[EDDIE51]

The large Tesco near me is still advertising for staff.

[EcclesCake]

Checking compliance with process and procedure, perhaps?

[EDDIE51]

https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/compliance-officer
One of the fastest growing job sectors apparently.

[mikey4444]

Bathy....when I worked in the Financial Services industry, a Compliance Officer/Manager was the one whose job it was to make sure that everybody in the Company was abiding by the rules and regulations.

That clearly didn't mean that they stopped millions of PPI plans being sold of course!

[hc4361]

I like Aldi and Lidl and shop in both for certain things (Aldi's cling film cannot be beaten) but everything is prepacked which I hate. I want to buy meat, fish, fruit and veg in the quantities I need, not what the shop dictates.

[ToraToraTora]

I've heard they are merging with UKIP to cut down the number of mikey's obsessional posts!

[Old_Geezer]

"I don't know what everyone is complaining about. It will all be automated like the Amazon shop in The states. So you won't need any checkout staff."

Answered your own puzzlement ?

[237SJ]

Shame for the staff that are losing their jobs. Some people don't seem to care about that.

[New Judge]

"Shame for the staff that are losing their jobs. Some people don't seem to care about that."

See my answers at 09:08 and 12:31 to this question:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1590461-1.html

Strangely my tale involved the same supermarket chain. It is not an isolated incident. I don't really care when staff who treat their customers as an intrusion are asked to seek employment elsewhere.

[237SJ]

Why do you shop there then? You do have a choice.

[New Judge]

Yes I do have a choice and I visit the store very infrequently. It just happens to be my nearest store and I'd go there more frequently if they trained their staff in basic manners. It seems that shops have to provide training in the niceties of life because many of their employees seem incapable of accepting that the shop is there for the convenience of its customers, not as a social club for its staff.