The closures are part of plans by the UK’s largest supermarket group to save £1 billion over three years. It comes almost three years after it shut 200 in-store cafes amid waning demand from shoppers. The latest round of closures is part of a shake-up which will result in the loss of more than 3,000 jobs.
– Cafes will shut at the following locations: Fosse Park, Leicestershire Pontypridd, South Wales Rustington, West Sussex Scarborough, North Yorkshire Penzance, Cornwall Denton, Greater Manchester Wrexham, North Wales Longwater, Norwich, Norfolk Ely, Cambridgeshire Pontllanfraith, South Wales Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire Nantwich, Cheshire Pinhoe Road, Exeter, Devon Pepper Hill – Northfleet, Kent Marshall Lake, Solihull, West Midlands Rhyl, North Wales Lincoln, Lincolnshire Bridgemead, Swindon, Wiltshire Larkfield, Aylesford, Kent Whitchurch Bargates, Shropshire Sedlescombe Road, Hastings, East Sussex Barnstaple, Devon Dewsbury, West Yorkshire Kings Lynn Hardwick, Norfolk Truro, Cornwall Warren Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk Godalming, Surrey Hereford, Herefordshire Chichester, West Sussex Bognor Regis, West Sussex Newport, South Wales Talbot Heath, Dorset Rugby, Warwickshire Cannock, Staffordshire Leek, Staffordshire Winterstoke Road, Bristol Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester Morecambe, Lancashire Darlington, County Durham Monks Cross, Huntington, North Yorkshire Marsh Mills, Plymouth, Devon Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex Durham, County Durham Bamber Bridge, Lancashire Weedon Road, Northampton, East Midlands Hempstead Valley, Kent Hedge End, Hampshire Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Thanet Westwood Cross, Kent Stanway, Colchester, Essex Castle Point, Essex Isle of Wight Keighley, West Yorkshire Swadlincote, Derbyshire Leicester North, East Midlands Wakefield Marsh Way, Wakefield, West Yorkshire Torquay, Devon Waterlooville, Hampshire Macclesfield, Cheshire Harrogate, North Yorkshire Cheadle, Greater Manchester.
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Sainsbury’s: Full list of 61 supermarket cafes set to close
The closures are part of plans by the UK’s largest supermarket group to save £1 billion over three years.