Glasgow city centre Tesco will create 100 new jobs

 

© Evening Times Originally published: 19/2/2010

Tesco is opening a supermarket in the St Enoch Centre.

A hundred full and part jobs will be created at the new Tesco Metro, store which will be located beneath the newly-expanded Boots store in the Centre facing on to St Enoch Square.

The centre’s general manager Susan Nicol said: “Our success in attracting Tesco is fantastic news for St Enoch, for the city centre and for the local community. The Tesco Metro concept is ideally suited to our location and adds another new dimension to our redeveloped mall.

“It’s also fantastic news in terms of the new jobs that the store will create for the city, adding to those which have already resulted from our redevelopment programme.”

Tesco have not set a date for the opening, but St Enoch bosses say it will be before the end of the year,

Tesco Corporate Affairs Manager Tony McElroy, said: “We are really pleased to be investing in the St Enoch centre. Our new store will create around 100 jobs with recruitment starting in the coming months.

“Our new store highlights the commitment by Tesco to job creation in Glasgow.”

As previously reported in the Evening Times, another branch of the supermarket opens today in the former Woolworths unit in Byres Road.

The jobs created by Tesco come on top of 700 new retail sales posts announced as part of the Centre’s St Enoch Working initiative.

This is fantastic news for St Enoch and the local community St Enoch Centre’s general manager Susan Nicol
Tesco will be part of the second phase of expansion at the centre.

Meanwhile, a new supermarket is to be unveiled on Glasgow’s South Side next week.

Haldanes will open on Tuesday in the Shawlands Arcade.

As reported in the Evening Times last year, the store will replace the Somerfield outlet, which is closing due to competition rules.

The Co-op took over the Somerfield chain in February last year in a £1.5 billion deal, but has since been told by the Office of Fair Trading to sell off more than 130 stores.

All 32 Somerfield staff will work at the new store – the ninth Haldanes outlet in Scotland.

Company Chairman Arthur Harris, said: ‘This deal is great news for Shawlands because it guarantees the future of the store and will give people in the community a refreshing new shopping experience.

“Customer reaction at the other shops we have up and running has been one of surprise at our pricing policy because the perception of a new brand is that prices go up. Haldanes is living proof that this does not have to be the case.”

A key policy of Haldanes is to source more than a third of its products locally.