New structure change.

[ExSMfloor]

our store manager is on holiday,and no one knows nothing about this,union reps included

More will come out after 12. Happens on this Monday (or the one after) every single
Year. Shouldn't be a surprise

[Night Owl]

Brief to SM today was about further changes & closures of the remaing counters.

[kaled78]

so fish and meat now gone completely in all stores?,or is it store specific?

[Stubbo]

our store manager is on holiday,and no one knows nothing about this,union reps included

More will come out after 12. Happens on this Monday (or the one after) every single
Year. Shouldn't be a surprise

Any news yet?

[BUY TESLA STOCK]

so fish and meat now gone completely in all stores?,or is it store specific?

They can't even get turkeys which aren't rancid at Christmas why would you buy at Tesco's counters.

[madness]

I would say your more experienced managers need to be the Dot com, stock/admin and fresh manager.

The grocery gm and checkouts can be less experienced as yes can be more numbers than the fresh or stock but it is a far less technical job.

The point I was trying to make is that a blanket salary for all TM's wouldn't work as the demands are different store to store, a lot of feathers would be ruffled for example if a dot com extra TM was paid the same as a low taking ss fresh tm. As well as the differences in capability TM from TM.

There's a reason the lowest salaried TM is about 22.5k and their earning potential is circa 55k a year. Disparities like that are there for a reason.

surely you mean 22.5k-35k not 55k. There are not TMs on 55k.

[ExSMfloor]

There aren't many on 35k, the upper hand is about 31, and that's for those long timers

[Tinkerbell1975]

Also been told,  as part of todays announcement, that the hold previously put on the culling of night crews in stores is over and it's now starting up at pace again......

[SpudChucker1970]

Correct.

[fatlad]

No info on our super duper pay rise then 

[wacko2021]

Any info on those effected from todays announcements then? Rather than beating round the bush and dribbling little bits here and there...

[Fair play]

Fish and butcheries to close May 2nd no redundancies

[Mennsa]

Nothing on Bakeries? 

[chris9997]

Also been told,  as part of todays announcement, that the hold previously put on the culling of night crews in stores is over and it's now starting up at pace again......

so who told you this as todays press release does not mention nights

[fatlad]

Where have you seen the press release? Can't find anything anywhere.

[VladPutin]

I would say your more experienced managers need to be the Dot com, stock/admin and fresh manager.

The grocery gm and checkouts can be less experienced as yes can be more numbers than the fresh or stock but it is a far less technical job.

Our dot comedy manager has the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden. Lucky for them, they have a good TL who does most of the real work. Dot comedy manager is like a dot comedy picker: you could train a monkey to do it. 

As for stock control, they're pretty much worthless as far as Fresh departments are concerned. They are helpless to stop the persons at Centre from forcing in stock we don't need and can't sell.

[admin]Choose your words better.[/admin]

[penguin]

I did fresh stock control in the past, was fine when stores had a certain amount of discretion over things, once it all went to the centre things quickly went down hill.

[BUY TESLA STOCK]

Jacks is getting scrapped too using the Tesco founder Jack Cohens name in vain so much for a tribute to him. The local butchers and fishmongers will be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Biscuit tin]

Its the annual newsleak of the end of January cull.

[ExSMfloor]

Has now made national news, not what I was expecting but some changes nonetheless

All jacks stores to close
Fish meat and deli to close (although these were already closed in the vast vast majority of stores)

[whatajoke2019]

Taken from Our Tesco:

Dear colleagues,

We operate in a highly competitive, fast-paced market that is changing rapidly. Over the last two years, as we've responded to the challenges of COVID-19, our business has changed faster than at any other point in our history. Our customers are shopping differently, and many of our colleagues are working differently too.

Last year we launched our new strategic priorities to ensure we can continue to serve our customers in the best way possible and are well-placed for the years ahead. This means we need to continuously look at how we can run our business as simply and efficiently as possible, so we can re-invest in the things that add most value for customers.

Today, we're announcing some changes focused on helping us do this.

Jack's stores
We will be closing seven of our 13 Jack's stores and changing the remaining six to Tesco large stores. Jack's was launched in 2018 to celebrate our centenary and founder, Jack Cohen, and to gain knowledge from running stores with a low-cost operating model.

We have learned a tremendous amount from Jack's and this has helped Tesco become more competitive, more efficient and strengthen the value we offer to customers – including the launch of Aldi Price Match, as well as our popular Fresh 5 fruit and veg discount proposition which we have since launched in businesses across the Group.

As a result, we have consistently attracted new customers to Tesco from our competitors over the last two years and their perception of the value they can find at Tesco has increased significantly. With the learnings from Jack's now fully absorbed into Tesco, the time is right to focus on driving value within our core business.

Thanks to its strong recognition with customers for great quality and value, the Jack's brand will live on, with Jack's-branded products available to independent convenience stores supplied by Booker.

Jack's colleagues working in the six stores that will change to Tesco stores will be automatically offered roles there. For the 130 remaining colleagues across the seven stores which will close and in head office, our priority is to try and find alternative roles at Tesco for all who want to stay with us and we will work individually with each affected colleague to support them during this period of change.

Tesco stores
Customer shopping behaviour has changed considerably over recent years which has led to a decrease in the number of customers using counters on a regular basis in some of our stores. This has made it necessary to review the relevance of each counter within our stores.

In 279 stores where we see local customer demand for meat, fish or hot deli counters, we will continue to offer these services. However, in 317 stores where we see the lowest demand, we will close these counters and repurpose the space to better reflect our customers' needs. There will be no redundancies related to these counter changes, as impacted colleagues will be offered alternative roles.

These are difficult decisions to make, but they are necessary to ensure we can continue to serve customers in the best possible way.

Many thanks,

Jason

I imagine a lot of stores are 'over hours' on their Heat Maps so would like to know how they can offer alternative roles  .

[kaled78]

I guess a lot of the ones that are currently part time counters will close then!,that explains why the made the skills payment seperate,looks like staff are going to get screwed again

[NightAndDay]

I would say your more experienced managers need to be the Dot com, stock/admin and fresh manager.

The grocery gm and checkouts can be less experienced as yes can be more numbers than the fresh or stock but it is a far less technical job.

The point I was trying to make is that a blanket salary for all TM's wouldn't work as the demands are different store to store, a lot of feathers would be ruffled for example if a dot com extra TM was paid the same as a low taking ss fresh tm. As well as the differences in capability TM from TM.

There's a reason the lowest salaried TM is about 22.5k and their earning potential is circa 55k a year. Disparities like that are there for a reason.

surely you mean 22.5k-35k not 55k. There are not TMs on 55k.

Our friend NowAnExManager says he is, along with another claimed handful.

[overworkedexpresslad]

Any news about Express?? .

Seems like t***o don't give a flying F**K about us staff. 

[siuuu]

I was off today but heard from my boss that we are going down from 132 shift leader hours to 109.5. In our store we have 3 full time @ 36.5 hours and one part timer @ 22.5 hours, so we'll effectively lose the part timer. No one to be made redundant but if part timer leaves then they won't be replaced, if full timer leaves then they'll be replaced by how many hours we have left up to 109.5.