Another major supermarket axes hundreds of jobs in major shake up [Video]

ANOTHER supermarket has announced it will axe hundreds of jobs in a major shake up.

Morrisons said it would cut 200 staff, making it the second supermarket to confirm job cuts today.

Roles in customer service, employee engagement and payroll are all understood to be impacted, according to a report in The Grocer.

It comes just hours after Sainsbury’s said it would cut 3,000 head office staff roles and also axe all remaining patisserie, bakery, rotisserie and pizza counters in its bigger branches.

A spokeswoman for Morrisons said it carried out a “review of its people structure” to ensure it is “offering stores and sites a timely and consistent service”.

“We are therefore proposing to remove the roles of regional people manager, store people manager and case specialist from our structure, meaning colleagues in these roles are being placed at risk of redundancy.”

“The new structure will consist of a number …