// Tesco is reportedly considering closing fresh food counters as part of a new cost-cutting drive
// The supermarket giant is currently the only Big 4 grocer to still offer fresh food counters
Tesco is considering axing its remaining butcher and fishmonger counters in 279 stores as shopper interest in them wanes amid the cost of living crisis.
The grocery giant is currently the only member Big 4 member to still offer fresh food counters which sell deli products in 279 of its stores and the news comes after it closed over 300 fresh food counters back in January, citing a change in customer habits.
More closures could lead to hundreds of further job losses, on top of the hundreds already axed in the last round of cuts.
A Tesco spokesman declined to comment on the claim.
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This week Tesco found itself in hot water and is now facing a lawsuit over allegations that a group of factory workers in Thailand are facing 99-hour weeks on low pay to make jeans for the supermarket’s F&F fashion brand.
A group of 130 former workers at VK Garment Factory are suing the grocer and auditing specialists Intertek for “alleged negligence and unjust enrichment”.
The workers produced jeans, denim jackets and other clothing for Tesco’s F&F brand for its Thai branch between 2017 and 2020.
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