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Tesco says to close depot, relocate workers
A customer leaves a Tesco store in Hammersmith, west London October 3, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Paul Hackett
LONDON |
LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, plans to close a distribution centre near London where 800 people are employed.
The firm said the depot in Harlow, northeast of the capital, was one of its distribution centres being closed following a strategic review.
It said employees would be offered jobs at other Tesco sites or at two new distribution centres in the south of England where it would created 2,000 jobs.
(Reporting by James Davey and Lorraine Turner; Editing by David Cowell)
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