Tesco announces more changes to its online shopping deliveries

Supermarket giant Tesco has announced more changes to its online shopping deliveries.
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Chiefs have announced they are making even more online shopping slots available during lockdown and in a statement, chief executive Dave Lewis said the firm was constantly making changes to adapt to customers’ needs.

He said: “As we go through the sixth week of lockdown, we continue to make changes to the way we serve our customers. It’s not easy, and the changes we’ve made have had a huge impact on how and when you shop.

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“There is one clear area of concern and frustration and in particular on what we’re doing to increase the number of home delivery and Click+Collect slots, as part of our efforts to help vulnerable customers.

Tesco has announced more online delivery slots.Tesco has announced more online delivery slots.
Tesco has announced more online delivery slots.

“To increase our capacity for deliveries and Click+Collect, we’ve closed stores overnight – so that we have more time to prepare orders – and recruited 12,000 new colleagues to pick these orders, and 4,000 new drivers to deliver them.

“As a result, we’ve increased the number of online orders every week from 590,000 in the first week of the crisis, to over 1 million this week. We’ll increase this further to 1.2 million slots in the next two weeks.

“This means that, since the start of the crisis, we will have effectively doubled our online capacity. While this is enough to cover the Government-provided list of people who are clinically vulnerable and don’t have a support network (around 350,000 people), it’s simply not enough for everyone who feels vulnerable at the moment.

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“In the last six weeks, we’ve built a grocery delivery business which is probably the biggest in the world, but we know we need to do more – and we will.

“But we need your help too. If you can shop in-store, or use Click+Collect, please do. This will help us free up more online slots for people who need them most. I’m very grateful to the customers who have done this already.”

“To anyone who has struggled to get a slot, we apologise. Be assured we are doing everything we can to make more online slots available.”

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