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    1. jungleboy1234 on

      way too many job cuts being announced across the board in the UK. Given the high unemployment of young people this isnt good at all. Add the AI replacement theory and we got a ticking timebomb about to go off.

      This is all brewing up to make the 2029 election, which is already very adversarial become very very bad indeed.

    2. Pheasant_Plucker84 on

      Cost cutting is just another word for shareholder pay rises.

    3. RaymondBumcheese on

      There’s an Ocado just for you… but not you, we need to streamline operations to maintain shareholder value so pack up your desk.

    4. ExpertSausageHandler on

      Everyone is cutting, something is building and it’s not pretty.

    5. JackStrawWitchita on

      So reading through the news, it’s actually about 660-ish jobs cut in the UK, mostly centred at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Not good news at all for Hatfield.

    6. Ramiren on

      It’s a shame, I can’t comment on what they’re like to work for but as a customer I’ve always found Ocado to be a stress free company to buy from, which is why I’m happy to pay a premium for it. Drivers seem to always be on time in my area, they’re always nice to deal with and they rarely make substitutions or have items missing.

      Hopefully service doesn’t suffer from these cuts because that’s their justification for being more expensive than the competition.

    7. Conscious_Analysis98 on

      Why is the BBC’s picture of someone picking & packing in a warehouse when most of the jobs will cut are at their Hatfield office in tech & support? And almost certainly replaced by AI (Actually India)

    8. somnamna2516 on

      more AI washing: good old c-suite bullshit: ‘we are streamlining our logistic solution delivery pipelines with emergent generative AI technology to further boost productivity and evolve our strategic infrastructure implementation outlook strategies’ sounds far better than ‘our stock has tanked by 95% in 4 years and we need it to go up so we directors can make more money.. sorry not sorry’

    9. Violinist_Particular on

      Last time I spoke to someone in tech working at ocado, they were offshoring everything to either Spain or Poland IIRC.

    10. ArtNo6305 on

      This is just the tech correction after COVID. The tech market was just way over saturated.

    11. Ok_Veterinarian2715 on

      Enshittification step 3 or 4

      1) Get new product to market
      2) Establish brand loyalty through quality, price & service
      3) Vary all three attributes to see what people will stand
      4) REALLY start cost cutting and milk every last penny out of the bastards 
      5) Sell the husk and move on to the next thing

    12. classic123456 on

      Ocado delivered half my order then did nothing to resolve it.

    13. Eclectika on

      afaik, Ocado’s pick and pack is predominantly automated so any cuts will definitely be to their tech support.

      Fwiw, el reg has an article on what companies are doing and it reminds me of back when outsourcing the call centres to India/Philippines etc was a thing and that didn’t end well. The article is a bit of a crock as employers say they can’t get proper resident IT peeps, the locals are too hard to train so they want to bring in cheap labour from abroad.

      It’s more they think they can save money.

      my meh is meh-ing. There is nothing we can do about this except hope the fallout doesn’t hit us all too hard.

      [https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/brit_tech_firms_face_falling](https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/brit_tech_firms_face_falling)

    14. Immediate_Divide9446 on

      I’m not surprised they’re losing money; since they broke with Waitrose and M&S became a major stakeholder, quality and stock levels have been going downhill while prices are now on average higher than shopping online with Waitrose. They don’t even sell the whole M&S food range online. For the first time in 15 years I cancelled my Christmas order and I’m also going to cancel my delivery pass.

      Instead of cutting jobs they should be asking customers why we’re leaving.

    15. Hot-Acanthaceae4084 on

      It’s alarming how these tech and office job cuts are being framed as warehouse automation when the reality is likely a shift to cheaper overseas labor and AI, all while youth unemployment is already a crisis.

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