The UK’s biggest supermarket chain Tesco has announced that it will take on 17,000 new employees for the Christmas season to deal with increased numbers of shoppers.

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The new jobs will also include 5,000 permanent positions, adding to the 200,000 people the company already employs.


Tesco aims to have larger-than-ever numbers of people on the shop floor in the run up to Christmas to help customers find what they are looking for, reports BBC online.

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