Tesco plans to open 150 new convenience stores creating 2,000 new jobs

TESCO has revealed plans to unfastened 150 caller locations implicit the adjacent 3 years successful a convenience store blitz.

The Tesco Express enlargement volition make much than 2,000 jobs, portion immoderate stores volition payment from longer opening hours.

The bulk of sites volition tally from 7am to 11pm, but the supermarket elephantine is aiming to person immoderate unfastened from 6am to midnight.

Kevin Tindall, managing manager astatine Tesco UK, said the concatenation had signed leases for galore of the caller shops, but that they were looking astatine lodging estates, new-build operation blocks and precocious streets with a batch of footfall.

The news came arsenic Britain’s biggest grocer yesterday marked the 30th day of Tesco Express by opening a store successful Burnt Oak, North London — connected the aforesaid thoroughfare the precise archetypal Tesco was acceptable up successful 1929.

Tesco this week chopped prices connected 200 mundane items specified arsenic bread, milk, and chickenhearted successful its Express stores, and continues to connection Clubcard discounts.

But it does not connection its Aldi Price Match successful the convenience shops.

Critics including Which? person argued customers astatine smaller shops are disadvantaged by the higher prices.

But Mr Tindall explained that astir smaller stores complaint a premium arsenic they are deed harder by costs, particularly successful London wherever rents are high.

And helium said Tesco was continuing to make jobs contempt the “challenges of other costs from the Budget”.

There are present 2,074 Tesco Express stores and 808 larger superstores.

Rivals Sainsbury's, Morrisons, and Asda person besides committed to opening caller locations.

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