Tesco to Create 16,000 Jobs to Strengthen E-Commerce, Expects Rise in Online Sales
August 24 2020 - 8:52AM
Dow Jones News
By Matteo Castia
Tesco PLC said Monday that it will create 16,000 new permanent
roles to support its expanding online business, and that it expects
higher internet-based sales for the year.
The U.K.'s largest grocer by market share said 10,000 of these
positions will be pickers to assemble customer orders. Another
3,000 will be drivers to strengthen deliveries, while the remaining
3,000 will be for a variety of vacancies in stores and distribution
centers, it said.
"The majority of these roles to be filled by colleagues who
joined on a temporary basis at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic,"
Tesco said. It said staff for the remaining posts will be recruited
externally.
E-commerce now accounts for 16% of the group's sales compared
with around 9% before the pandemic, Tesco said.
The company expects this year's online sales to exceed 5.5
billion pounds ($7.2 billion), up from GBP3.3 billion the year
before.
Recruitment across other Tesco business areas continues as
normal, the company said.
Shares at 1220 GMT were up 0.7 pence, or 0.3%, at 228.2
pence.
Write to Matteo Castia at matteo.castia@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 24, 2020 08:37 ET (12:37 GMT)
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