Tesco has announced a shake up which puts around 2,100 jobs at risk across the country.

The company - with a major store on the outskirts of Ashby - plans to re-organise management and close hot counters and delis.

It will introduce 1,800 new shift leader positions in these stores - but will therefore reduce the number of lead and team manager roles.

The supermarket said it will also realign its manager roles to ensure they are all of equal size and complexity, "focusing on overall store performance and supporting colleagues to serve their customers and communities".

Tesco said: "We are supporting colleagues - impacted by these changes - who will have the option of moving into shift leader vacancies with financial support or taking redundancy."

Meanwhile, the grocer will axe all counters and hot delis from February 26, with Tesco saying the spaces set to be repurposed "to better reflect our customers' needs".

Tesco said it has seen "a significant decrease in demand for our counters over the last few years", and added that its customers no longer say they are a significant reason for them to shop with the supermarket.

The majority of stores no longer operate any counters - but there are some in the Ashby branch.

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Tesco said all affected colleagues will be offered alternatives roles in-store, adding: "where we can work with a third party to offer a counter experience in-store, we will continue to do so."

Tesco has a large store in Ashby de la Zouch. Photo: Instantstreetview.com

In addition to the proposed changes, Tesco said there are a small number of other localised changes across the business, including the closure of eight pharmacies, where there are other pharmacies within one mile of a store, moving overnight roles to the daytime in 12 stores and reducing hours within some Post Offices.

It is also removing a small number of roles in different functions of Head Office and closing the Tesco Maintenance National Operating Centre (NOC) in Milton Keynes.

A statement added: "Taking into account all the localised changes, we expect this to impact around 350 roles across the business.

"Our priority is to support colleagues impacted by these changes and we will enter a consultation process with USDAW on these proposals.

"We currently have around 2,000 vacancies across our business, in addition to the more than 1,800 new Shift Leader roles we will be introducing to stores."

Tesco UK chief executive Jason Tarry said: "These are difficult decisions to make, but they are necessary to ensure we remain focused on delivering value for our customers wherever we can, as well as ensuring our store offer reflects what our customers value the most.

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"Our priority is to support those colleagues impacted and help find alternative roles within our business from the vacancies and newly created roles we have available."