Tesco offers £1,000 starting bonus for specific job amid staff shortages. (PA) Tesco is offering a £1,000 joining bonus fee to lorry drivers amid staffing pressures on UK supermarkets. The payment, which applies to new starters who join from July 14 until September 30, appears on various advertisements for HGV driver roles on the food retailer’s website. The time-limited offer comes after supermarkets had to reassure customers last week that there was no need to panic buy following pictures of half-empty shelves and reports of temporary shortages. A “perfect storm” of aggravating factors was blamed for the situation, including self-isolating workers and prior staff shortages.
Tesco offers £1,000 starting bonus amid staff shortages
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Tesco is offering a £1,000 joining bonus to lorry drivers who join the company before the end of September amid staffing pressures on the UK’s supermarkets.
The payment, which applies to new starters who join from July 14 until September 30, appears on various advertisements for HGV driver roles on the food retailer’s website.
Potential candidates are told that the role offers the opportunity to be “an ambassador on our roads” where “you’ll play a vital role for our customers and communities, representing Tesco on the highways and byways of the UK”.
Supermarkets have urged customers not to panic buy in response to reports of emptying shelves (Tom Wilkinson/PA)
Wednesday July 28, 2021, 12:01 AM
A woman shops for clothes Credit: PA Archive/PA Images
Shoppers have seen retail prices plunge more sharply this month on the back of summer clothing sales, while food also became cheaper, according to new data.
Shop prices fell by 1.2% year on year in July, according to the latest BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index.
It represented an acceleration in price decreases after deflation of 0.7% in June.
It’s an uncertain time for many households as the economy slowly reopens
Mike Watson, NielsenIQ
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said the slump in prices was partly “due to fierce competition between supermarkets keeping food prices low”.