britains largest supermarket tesco on monday said it will create an additional 16000 permanent jobs to support the exceptional growth in its online business and may even increase the number of roles as the lockdown boosted its sales the supermarket expects the majority of these roles to be filled by colleagues who joined on a temporary basis at the start of the covid19 pandemic but who now want to stay with the business permanently the company said tesco said the roles will include 10000 pickers to assemble customer orders and 3000 drivers to deliver them along with a variety of other roles in stores and distribution centres advt at a time when companies including highstreet retailers hotels and airlines have laid off tens of thousands of workers to cut costs uk supermarkets have had to take on additional staff to deal with more demand for deliveries and groceries at home discount supermarket chains aldi and lidl said last month they will create an additional 1200 and 1000 jobs respectively this year in the uk as the two companies continue to open more stores and drive market share gains ahold delhaize nv a major operator of supermarket chains in the united states and europe said earlier this month that its brands hired more than 45000 employees globally in the second quarter british grocery sales had surged during the pandemic but slowed down in the 12 weeks ended aug 9 as shopping habits eased back towards normality after months of lockdown according to market researcher kantar reuters published on aug 25 2020 at 0106 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app retailer departmental store grocery sales hiring grocery retail jobs coronavirus tesco pandemic homenewstesco to create 16000 more permanent jobs in online boom