Tesco to lay off 4,500 workers with Metro’s restructuring

British supermarket chain Tesco is cutting about 4,500 jobs from its Metro stores, in order to improve the efficiency of a format that is increasingly used by customers daily – rather than for a traditional weekly shop.

Tesco told: the changes in its 153 Metro stores – medium-sized shops located on shopping streets and by railway stations – will allow it to shift stock more quickly to the shelves and cut the time it was held in the store room.