Tesco's cost-cutting CEO should note simpler may not mean better | Nils Pratley

Rivals that make a virtue of fresh food counters will be delighted by Dave Lewis’s semi-retreatTesco’s staff must shudder every time the chief executive, Dave Lewis, talks about making the business “simpler”. It usually means a few thousand people are about to lose their jobs. In the latest effort to create “a simpler, more sustainable” Tesco, some 9,000 roles will be “impacted”, which is going some even by Lewis’s standards. He is estimated