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TESCO HAS ANNOUNCED that it will be creating 200 jobs in Ireland in the next year.
The announcement was made today and involves the opening of seven new stores and six mobile phone shops across the country.
Some 80 new jobs will be created before Christmas as part of the company’s €70 million capital investment progarmme for 2013. This includes 48 jobs with the opening of five new Express stores in Douglas Road in Cork and College Green, Dorset Street, Leonards Corner and Glasnevin Avenue in Dublin.
The company is also recruiting 18 third-level graduates based in stores around the country and at its head office in Dun Laoghaire.
A further 120 new jobs will come with the opening of new stores in Dundalk and Honeypark (Dun Laoghaire) next year. Construction work on these stores is now well underway.
Minister Simon Coveney welcomed the announcement today saying that the food sector “is showing resilience and dynamism”.
Tesco Ireland’s CEO Philip J Clarke said that these permanent new jobs “will help boost local economic activity at a difficult time for the Irish economy”.
The stores at Finglas and Douglas are due to open this week.
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Meanwhile they cut our hours
Glad I’m not the only staff member pissed at seein this!!!!!
Breaking news. 200 jobs will be lost to local stores in the areas that Tesco are moving into
A lot of the jobs in Tesco’s are only 20 hours a week. They say that they have created 200 jobs but in fact they are employing people on half the hours of a full time employee to make figure look good. Split twenty hours over 5-6 days and for some people working in the shops they spend more time getting to and from work than they spend in work.
And I believe some are “internship” so the state pays their wages
Correct Margaret. In the branch where my mother works they make announcements about these jobs but don’t tell the full picture. 13 week contract and when all the politicians pats on the back are finished they then let them go. No fanfare about this though.
Every job tesco creates two are lost in the local economy. Tesco like Wlamart destroy local businesses
I think local councils also have a big helping hand in destroying local businesses.
Have you any links or reference to prove this? Please post it
You don’t need links. Just drive into a small town in rural area and see how much they charge you for parking, and how long you can stay in that parking slot before being asked to move on. You also might want to search for an article on here last week on how much the parking industry is worth to the country. I rest my case
Simon bang on with councils killing small businesses with council tax. Rents sti too high also. So when Tesco moves in the little man has no chance
Yup. And people on here bating about don’t shop at tescos boycott them. When it should be local government and councils that should be encouraging local businesses to thrive. They know that small business can solve the unemployment problem in this country, yet still try to squeeze as much out of them and don’t care about the repercussions.
Such a pity they can’t bake nice bread.
That’s what Lidl’s onsite bakery is for… mmmmm,, the smell of fresh bread when you walk in there. MMMMMMM
When I lived in London Tesco took over every suitable business in the area, pushing out long established Artisan Food stores and other local business. Within a couple of Years what was a beautiful area was awash with Tesco and Tesco express . They might bring jobs, but at what cost to the local economy ?
Please name a “beautiful area” where this happened – Hampstead, Ealing, Kensington ? I know London very well and find your comment very hard to believe.
Happened in Peckham.
No Problem, I lived in Notting Hill for 10 years and Kensington for 6. I walked through Holland Park every day. The following Tesco’s spring to mind. Portobello Road Metro, Notting Hill Gate, Holland Park, Bayswater, North Kensington, Warwick Road Superstore, Kensington Old Brompton express,South Kensington Express, Fulham Road Express, Chelsea Express, Kensington High Street Metro.
If you know London so well then you will know how close together these are. Hope that clarifies things for you.
Tesco metro on Portobello road is a dump, it has not had any major effect on the retail landscape around it, if a retailer can’t survive in a place with the footfall Portobello road has, they are in the wrong game.
You forgot the one just up from The Royal Hospital (Chelsea Pensioners) think its actually called Royal Hospital Road
Every little helps
No.. every Lidl helps. ;-)
Everyone of these tesco express shops is closing down the local family owned shop next to it and other shops in the area, soon the only place to shop will be tesco, they do create jobs but more people lose their jobs in the area the shops opened, lets start a campaign , nobody shop in tesco express! Support your local shop and stop putting money in this company because all their profits leave this country , tesco out !
Just to point out though, that tesco (and is has been proven ) buy more irish grown products than other shops like Dunnes and supervalu. Tesco’s are a convenience shop, and as i have pointed out in a post above, the local councils do not help with parking fee’s. I got caught not so long ago with going to the dentist. I could only pay for a 1 hour slot and was required to move on after that one hour. Unfortunately for me my dentist appointment took 1 hour 15 mins. As I was returning to the car the the parking man was in the process of writing out my ticket. What was i supposed to do?
Brush your teeth more regularly
I wonder how many of them are actually internships passed as jobs just to look good on statistics …
Tesco Express opened in the town my family live in in England. Co Op and Lidl have survived one local butcher, one green grocer, one bakers all closed down. That’s been in the last year. A pub which had an off licence attached has closed down the off licence.
Tesco express opened just over 18 months, coincidence.
The Tesco Express shops are plain greed.
The proposed Dorset St shop I can see from my door, there are 2 other Tescos within 5 mins walk onr in Phibsboro and one on Upper Drumcodra Road plus large one in Fingla 5 minute drive.
Too many in such a confined space. Centra and Spar may last but the Greengrocers, Bakers and Butchers are in for a hard time. 2 off licences have already closed how long will the last one survive against Tesco
Local butchers are a rip off too.Went into one early a while back and watched yer man in the back feeding beef hearts into the mincer, never again.
at least they were beef hearts and not horse hearts. :-)
Applications can be made via http://www.jobbridge.ie
Always looks good to have more jobs in the country, however with Tesco there’s always a catch. I’m very sceptical of them due to their backing of jobsbridge and the system in the UK. (which is basically slavery) I’d prefer more details on who’s losing hours and the wages the new staff would be on before I’d consider it good news.
Tesco – killing the hearts of our towns
– bankrupting small suppliers
– 200 jobs created on low wage
– 0 hours contracts
– 200 jobs today – 6 months from now up to 120 jobs gone !
Tesco the curse of Irish retail!
Local shops are a rip-off.
Exactly my local shop has a sign saying use us or lose us, I decided I’d pick up a 6 pack of beer which has 7.50 RRP all over the packaging and they are charging 8.99, considering one of these new tescos is opening a stones throw from this shop it looks like we’ll be losing them
They cut hours because they can and with the Monty saved can build these stores.Tesco are no daw daws.fingers on the pulse at all times
Anyone know what the rate of pay is in Tesco?
between €8 to €10 as far as I know
Retail sales assistant
€17,394 – €28,050
Team Leader, General
€19,374 – €36,838
Retail Store Manager
€28,671 – €77,593
Deputy General Manager
€18,535 – €40,036
Dont know where your getting them figures from because i wish i got that per year!certainly is nowhere near €17,394!
I got them from the Tesco website. This is what they advertised.
10% staff discount aswell
I heard a stat recently that for every store they open there is a net loss of 70 jobs in the local community.
I hear it was 70,000 jobs lost.
I stand corrected, tesco contirbution to the irish economy is valued at €2.7 BILLION and its no longer €117 million in exports from 2010 but €705.8 million today,how many non direct jobs is that worth against your local shop that rips off its customers with over pricing. So keep the moaning coming about tesco destroying the local economys!!!
14000 people working in their Stores alone in Ireland , every little helps.
you get club card points for that statement
While I’m all for supporting local, I can’t see why people would give out about Tesco creating jobs when there are thousands of people in Ireland struggling right now. Surely 200 people being able to put food in their children’s bellies, keep a roof over their heads is more important? Not to mention the fact that work give people a sense of purpose, of pride. Of being useful, providing. With the amount of young men taking their own lives of late, shouldn’t we be grateful for the chance of some to get away from the brink?
thats great – what about all of the other’s who lose their jobs as there shop shuts down because Tesco use their massive muscle to out-compete them
Whether there’s a Tesco on the door step, or one 10km down the road, it has come to the point where people will shop where they can afford. The luxury of being able to shop in independent stores, with higher prices, is gone. And most independent stores DO have higher prices, as their rates are high, over heads are high etc. Most people just don’t have the money, and would rather travel a bit for a better deal.
Janet,
You are dead right. I posted earlier about shops which had closed down in the UK after Tesco Express opened.
I firmly believe that Tesco opening shops in such close proximity is greed and will cause some of the small local shops to close.
At the same time though I know that I will use the Tesco Express due to it having lower prices.
Some might call me a hypocrite and maybe I am but that’s the way of the world and I’m pretty sure that all those others slagging Tesco down will do the same.
so how do you apply for the jobs?? i am alway sthe tesco website and it always says there are currently no vacancies, I went into a few tesco stores to hand in C.V. they always say we don’t take C.V. anymore apply online
Tesco employ nearly 15,000 thousand in ireland. centra and spar have double the shops,yet people dont harp on about them.! People criticisingTesco,they are the biggest exporter of irish goods,in 2010 it was €177 MILLION alone,who else does this I ask you. If a local shop with 3 staff closes and a tesco opens with 13 staff is that not better.?? They do more for local towns then any other retailer.
no.
monkey boy dont feed the troll
these aren’t 200 “new” jobs for the economy
they will take job from other store forced to close down
There’s a new store underway in Gorey, Wexford at the moment also.
Tesco do not create jobs – they destroy them
so what about the 15000 people they employ in ireland they are worth 2 billion to the economy they are the biggest exporters of irish food to the british economy they have been proven to source more irish produce than super valu dunnes and aldi and lidl where do you get this that the destroy jobs.
Tesco PR!
People complain when prices are too high they also complain when they are too low. It is hard to please everybody.
Well done, E Gilmore, you done it again
You made a lot of job’s there
All your own work there
You done it YOUR WAY
AS IF,,
Why are they just opening new stores in Dublin, what about the rest of the country?
Its a “meeja” conspiracy from dem up in Dublin.
Keepin us poor turf-cuttin weshteners down.
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