2,500 apply for 140 jobs
Tuesday 23rd June 2009, 12:00PM BST.
The new Tesco store being built along side the Llangollen canal in Ellesmere. Picture: Ken Done
More than 2,500 people applied to work at a new Tesco store in north Shropshire, which is due to open later this year creating 140 jobs.
Bosses today revealed the figure – which means an average of 17 people applied for each job – as they said the new store in Ellesmere will open a week ahead of schedule.
The new supermarket on the town’s Wharf site is now on track to open on July 27, a week before the planned opening on August 3.
The superstore, which will sell mainly food items, is being built as part of a major redevelopment scheme on the Wharf area, which will also see a restaurant and housing created.
Today Emma Booth, from Tesco, said the store had created 140 full and part-time jobs in total, but most positions had been filled, and more than 2,500 people had applied to work at the store.
She said the store would be aiming to become part of the community.
Councillor Brian Knight, Ellesmere’s mayor, said he was delighted the store was opening early. He said: “It is good news, obviously as a town council we have supported the Tesco store for it to come in and I’d like to see it all open and up and running, and everyone will enjoy shopping in there.
“I have had a number of people ask me the question when is it going to open because the dates keep changing, so the sooner it opens the better.”
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It’s good to hear of new businesses anywhere in this declining economic climate and new jobs is another bonus. Let’s hope that this new Tesco is better staffed and better stocked than the somewhat pathetic one we have here in Telford.
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And how long before Tesco kills off the existing stores in Ellesmere?
What price 140 jobs when businesses are closed down by the corporate greed that is Tesco?
Ellesmere has many fine thriving shops, use them not Tesco, or in a few years time they will be gone.
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