Tesco plans to create 2,000 new jobs in Scotland during the current year as it expands its supermarket empire, Britain’s number one grocery chain has revealed.

The UK’s biggest retailer by sales has a staff of more than 25,000 people in Scotland, and is one of the country’s biggest private sector employers. It has about 150 stores north of the border, ranging from small, corner-shop operations to massive superstores that sell a variety of goods as well as food.

Tesco, which operates in the UK, Ireland, France, Eastern Europe, Asia and the United States, also said its newest Scottish supermarket will open in Glasgow’s St Enoch Centre early next month, creating 100 full and part-time jobs.

The company also has a number of other stores in the planning stage, including a controversial superstore and residential development in Glasgow’s Partick district, and intends to modernise older supermarkets.

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