Tesco is limiting customers to just one item of essential goods each across many of its Express stores. The supermarket chain has imposed the new regulation on products such as milk, bread, eggs and toilet roll. It comes as shoppers continue to panic buy for more supplies during the coronavirus lockdown. Tesco is limiting customers … Read more
Police were drafted in to guard shops yesterday as queues again formed at stores around the country. The measures were thought to be aimed at countering panic buying and making sure shoppers kept the right distance from each other. Officers kept watch outside Lidl and Sainsbury’s stores at a shopping centre in Stratford, east London. … Read more
Young are urged to shop in-store and make food last longer so elderly can use supermarkets’ overloaded online delivery service as Ocado chairman tells stockpilers ‘show restraint, nobody will starve’ amid coronavirus lockdown Tesco CEO Dave Lewis has written to customers about shopping during the crisis He has urged young and healthy people to shop … Read more
Wetherspoons boss forced into U-turn after telling staff to go and get a job at Tesco because he couldn’t afford to pay them By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 25 March 2020 Wetherspoons was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over staff pay after close … Read more
A heartbroken son has begged people to stay indoors and obey social distancing after his mother, 87, died from coronavirus after shopping in Asda, amid fears that supermarkets could become superspreaders of the killer illness. Shoppers were pictured squeezing together at supermarkets up and down the country this morning, ignoring social distancing rules from the … Read more
Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has told his 40,000 staff to work at Tesco during the coronavirus lockdown, after furious workers revealed they wouldn’t be getting their salaries until the end of April The popular pub chain was forced to close after Boris Johnson ordered people to stay at home in the battle against the killer … Read more
NHS workers across the country have been left in tears after shop workers greeted them with applause and flowers at UK supermarkets during a dedicated shopping hour for key workers amid coronavirus panic buying. Supermarkets up and down the country including Tesco and Sainsbury’s enforced a shopping hour just for key workers last week after … Read more
The boss of Britain’s largest retailer has pleaded with panicbuyers to search their conscience and ask themselves: ‘Do I need everything in my trolley?’ Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis called for calm as store shelves were yesterday stripped bare again and massive queues formed outside stores across the UK. Pleading with shoppers to pause for … Read more
Tesco’s chief executive Dave Lewis It’s been a tough week for the whole country. No one is untouched. No one immune to challenges we face as a country. Covid-19 is bringing huge changes to the way we live and work. Sadly, we are closer to the beginning of all this than the end, but it’s … Read more
The government today scolded ‘shameful’ panic-buyers and pleaded with the frenzied shoppers to consider more vulnerable people before emptying the nation’s supermarkets. The coronavirus death toll in the UK has hit 233 as a further 53 people died in England alone in the worst 24 hours yet. Environment Secretary George Eustice told people to ‘calm … Read more