Tesco said 1,600 jobs were at risk as it announced a further round of restructuring across its store network.

Britain’s biggest supermarket said it was moving overnight re-stocking to the daytime in 36 large stores and 49 convenience stores.

It is also converting 36 of its petrol stations to become pay-at-pump only sites during overnight hours.

The announcement comes a day after Tesco said it was scrapping its discount store brand Jack’s with the closure of seven stores and loss of around 130 jobs.

It said that the combined result of the announcements would be to put around 1,600 roles at risk of redundancy across the business but that it aimed to offer alternative roles to as many as possible, with 3,000 vacancies currently needing to be filled.

Tesco said the changes to overnight roles came after it found that by moving stock replenishment to daytime trading hours it could ensure more staff were on the shop floor to help customers at peak times.

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