For weeks shoppers have been struggling to secure themselves online delivery slots from all of the major UK supermarkets. As a result of coronavirus panic buying and a UK lockdown, shoppers have reported being stuck in cyber queues for hours at a time, with many unable to secure themselves a slot at the end of it.
But now, in some rare positive news, Tesco has announced it is expanding its home delivery and click & collect capacity to around 780,000 slots this week.
That's increase of 120,000 from two weeks ago, and the supermarket has another increase of 100,000 planned. As a result of a large recruitment drive, the supermarket giant says it has added more than 200 new vans and hired another 2,500 drivers and 5,000 store pickers to help