New £27m Tesco to create 80 jobs
Wednesday 27th July 2011, 3:00PM BST.
Eighty new jobs will be created when construction of a £27million Tesco superstore is completed later this year.
Work on the store at Burnt Tree Island on the Dudley-Sandwell border, started in March and the building is rapidly taking shape, with the sales floor already completed.
Bosses claim there will be more than 80 fresh vacancies at the store, expected to be open before Christmas. It is likely to bring the grand total of workers at the supermarket to 380.
When the store shut in January, 120 staff remained on site at a temporary branch and 180 were sent to work at supermarkets across the West Midlands.
Talks are taking place with staff to ensure they want to return by December.
But some workers fear they will be asked to take a reduction in hours, up to two hours a week, to accommodate the new positions and changes to how the store operates.
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Fabulous news. Yet again Tesco are taking over the world. The new building on the Burnt Tree Island is a disgrace. Why do they feel the need to build such monsters of a building which impact the local community and smaller local businesses? A typical money grabbing business with an obession to take over the country with the white and blue trademark eyesores. They even pay the local council a large sum of ridiculous money to pay contractors to finish roadworks near to the store to ensure better access to their store. Tesco, you have no values and your ethics are cheap. The sooner people see through your lies the better. Shame on you.
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sarah i said the same thing but the express did not print my comment. Its a disgrace another tesco selling items that smaller shops sell in the area , they stay open all hours can afford the staff while the small shops suffer, and yes they pay the council to be able to build in that area. No wonder shops are closing all the time. If you buy a telly from them do they know how to use it no they dont.
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to both above get real burnt tree was a nightmare for years it needed sorting out and if tescos have payed some money to the council to get better access then good on them we now have a better road system there and as for the building of the new store i think it looks better than the old one i would like to ask where they shop and where they live and if they give a monkeys about the future of the area there is no future in the small shops they are to dear now the future is bright with big companys investing large sums of money in the area might bring in more big names
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I for one think it’s good. Often, as a kid, we would drive to Burnt Tree tesco as a day out because of it’s size – which would lead us to then walk around Dudley. It’s not as if there wasn’t a Tesco already, it’s hardly them “taking over the world” when all they’re taking over is their own store again.
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Jeez, there we go, more British people knocking the success of a great company.
They are doing incredibly well, why is that? BECAUSE THEY ARE PROVIDING WHAT PEOPLE WANT!
If people wanted to shop at smaller shops, they would, no one forces customers in to Tesco!
Also, we now have a better road system, excellent! They are creating an EXTRA 80 jobs at that one store alone, also excellent!
Tesco make profit – they therefore pay tax – huge amounts of it – excellent for our government and country, the people they employ pay tax, also excellent.
Companies succeed because they deliver, just because Tesco deliver better than anyone else do not bash them! Instead model them, think how you can adopt what they do to become successful too. Unfortunately, the majority of British people would rather just bash the success. Very sad.
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