Restructuring: UK’s Sainsbury’s to cut up to 400 jobs

A spokesman for the grocer says it is removing 400 price controllers from its operation

LONDON: Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second largest supermarket group, is to cut up to 400 jobs in a restructuring of its store operations, it said on Friday. A spokesman for the grocer said it was removing 400 price controllers from its operation. Price controllers check that prices displayed on supermarket shelves are correct. Their role will in future be carried out by other staff. All of Britain’s big four supermarkets- Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons- are seeking efficiency savings to finance price cuts so they can better compete with discounters Aldi and Lidl, who have won market share in recent years. The affected Sainsbury’s workers, who have now entered a 45-day period of consultation, will be offered roles elsewhere in Sainsbury’s or redundancy. Sainsbury’s is also cutting night shifts in 140 stores, requiring 4,000 employees to move to either early morning or late evening shifts.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2017.

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