Kirkcaldy Tesco closes its doors for the last time

Tesco in Kirkcaldy has closed its doors for the final time with the loss of 189 jobs.

A small crowd gathered outside the superstore to watch as the doors closed at 6pm on Saturday.

Many of the shelves were becoming bare by the time the store closed, but staff some of whom have found other jobs or have been relocated to other stores managed to keep smiling, whilst customers throughout the day shook staff members’ hands and wished them well.

As staff waved their goodbyes through the windows at customers waving back from outside, one pensioner said:”This is such a sad loss. It was a such a friendly place to do your shopping.”

Tesco Chief Executive Dave Lewis announced in January that the company’s overall performance as a business had “fallen significantly short” of where executives would want it to be and that to protect the future of the business in the UK it would close 43 unprofitable stores.

It was weeks later, on January 28, that Mr Lewis confirmed the Kirkcaldy superstore was one of the 43 it planned to close.