Tesco says cutting bakery jobs

Britain's biggest retailer, supermarket group Tesco, said Tuesday it was cutting more than 1,800 jobs at its in-store bakeries following a drop in demand for its bread loaves.

"Customers are buying fewer traditional loaves of bread and are increasingly looking for a wider range of options, with sales of wraps, bagels and flatbreads growing," Tesco said in a statement, adding that it planned to axe 1,816 jobs across stores.

Tesco, which employs around 340,000 people across its stores in the UK and Ireland, added Tuesday that it would "continue to offer scratch baking in 257 stores".