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Squaring the circle | The Big Story: Labour costs

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Sainsbury’s announcement last month (January) that it was to axe more than 3,000 jobs, mainly by closing down its remaining in-store cafés, made headline news, while similar job cuts by Tesco (400) and Morrisons (200) were also picked up in the press. What is less…

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