Tesco Announced A Record Loss Of £6.4 Billion So Obviously People Are Making Jokes

    The results are the worst in the company's 96-year history.

    Supermarket giant Tesco has today announced a loss of £6.4 billion, one of the largest in UK corporate history.

    The supermarket chain revealed on Wednesday that its trading profit was £1.4 billion, down significantly from the previous year's £3.3 billion.

    The news of Tesco's loss appeared to catch one BBC editor off guard.

    Excellent reporting by the BBC news app on Tesco's losses this morning... X-rated losses, perhaps?

    And obviously, there were a lot of jokes being made on Twitter.

    I think #Tesco have just made #Greece feel good about themselves for the first time in years.

    Bought a melon in #Tesco last year and scanned it through the self-service checkout as a banana so I can't help but feel partly responsible.

    I guess #Tesco will now understand what it is like to run a home on a tight budget

    Someone at #Tesco really needs to sit on the naughty step and think about what they've done.

    Ahh such a shame about #tesco naahhttt!

    And one joke was made over and over again.

    So, for the record, Every Little - doesn’t help… #Tesco

    £6.38 billion. Wow. #everylittlehelps is possibly the most ironic slogan ever 😂😂😂 #Tesco

    Some Twitter users were putting the massive losses in perspective.

    Tesco's £6.37bn loss in numbers: that's 53,109,888 cases of Tesco finest champagne, or enough to fill 96 Olympic swimming pools

    Tesco's loss is also equivalent to 33.5 billion tins of carrots.

    We're talking #Tesco's £6.4 billion annual loss, that's enough to buy this private island near Thailand 58,000 times!

    That #Tesco loss in perspective: £202 per second. Impressive.

    And some people knew exactly what had gone wrong.

    I attribute all of Tesco's £6bn loss to how amazing the bakery section is in Cardiff Lidl #Tesco