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  Arts and crafts retailer Hobbycraft has promoted Dominic Jordan from retail operations director to ceo with immediate effect.   Dominic, who joined Hobbycraft in 2012, previously worked at Pets at Home for 12 years, latterly as retail operations director. He succeeds John Colley, who left Hobbycraft last year. Dominic said: …

Thousands of Tesco staff have walked in relay from Land’s End to John O’Groats for charity. The month-long event was held to raise funds for Tesco’s national charity partnership with Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation. More than 4,000 staff from stores, offices and distribution centres across the UK …

Tesco has announced that from August 28 it will stop selling 5p single use carrier bags and will instead only offer 10p Bags for Life. The move follows a successful 10-week trial in Aberdeen, Dundee and Norwich that led to a 25% cut in single-use carrier bag sales. Made from …

Tesco plans to consolidate its Customer Engagement Centres (CEC) into a single, expanded operation in Dundee and close its other CEC in Cardiff. The supermarket chain said the moves will allow it to ‘simplify its operations while continuing to offer a high level of customer service over the phone, by …

Tesco has revealed details of a new pay deal for hourly paid store staff. Hourly rates will increase by 10.5% over the next two years, from the current rate of £7.62 to £8.42 an hour by November 2018. The pay will increase in three stages: from £7.62 to £8.02 in …

Tesco and Dixons Carphone have announced a new partnership which will see two Currys PC World concessions opening within Tesco Extra stores this summer. The first store is scheduled to open in July at Tesco’s Milton Keynes Extra store, followed by a second concession at its Weston Favell Extra store …