Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries
Tesco: Panic In The Aisles
2020 • E49 May 30, 2020 60m
Fiona Phillips reports on how the supermarket chain coped with panic buying at the start of the coronavirus crisis and how the nation's shopping habits have started to change. As the public filled their cupboards with more than £2billion worth of extra groceries, Tesco doubled their share of the growing online market, but shelves being stripped bare and thousands of staff having to self-isolate or being off sick provided an enormous logistical challenge.