StaThat Oban’s Tesco store are waiting to find out if their jobs are safe following an announcement this week that the supermarket giant is to cut thousands of roles.
As part of a major shake-up of in-store departments, Tesco also confirmed 90 stores across the UK will close their deli, meat and fish counters, while around 200 staff significanteens, which have been run by outside companies since 2017, are also at risk of closure. When asked by The Oban Times if the town’s store would be aThected, Tesco’s head off ce said no details of stores have yet been revealed but will be once staff have been spoken to.
A spokesman said: ‘Overall, we estimate up to 9,000 Tesco colleague roles could be impacted, however, our expectation is that up to half of these could be redeployed to other customer-facing roles.