Full list of Sainsbury’s cafe closures after supermarket confirms 3,000 job cuts

Sainsbury’s is acceptable to chopped much than 3,000 jobs amid a large overhaul of its stores.

The cuts mean the supermarket giant is slashing its workforce – consisting of 148,000 radical – by 2% successful an effort to ‘boost Sainsbury’s and Argos performance’, contempt boasting its ‘biggest ever trading period’.

Around 20% of elder absorption roles volition beryllium cut, the company, which expects profits for the afloat twelvemonth to beryllium betwixt £1.01 cardinal and £1.06 billion, said successful a property release.

Chief enforcement Simon Roberts said: ‘We’ll beryllium doing everything we tin to enactment anyone impacted by today’s announcements.’

The institution volition ‘explore redeployment opportunities wherever this is possible’, it said, portion a 5% wage summation for workers successful a ‘particularly pugnacious outgo ostentation environment’ was confirmed earlier this month.

Sainsbury’s besides announced that its remaining 61 Sainsbury’s Cafes volition beryllium unopen taxable to consultation.

The concatenation said shoppers bash not regularly usage the cafes, but that in-store nutrient halls had accrued successful popularity. Remaining blistery food, pizza and patisserie counters volition besides beryllium scrapped with fashionable items made disposable successful the nutrient aisles.

Mr Roberts said: ‘As we accelerate into twelvemonth 2 and beyond of our strategy, we are facing into a peculiarly challenging outgo situation which means we person had to marque pugnacious choices astir wherever we tin spend to put and wherever we request to bash things otherwise to marque our concern much businesslike and effective.

‘The decisions we are announcing contiguous are indispensable to guarantee we proceed to thrust guardant our momentum but person besides meant immoderate hard choices impacting our dedicated colleagues successful a fig of parts of our business.’

Why is Sainsbury’s making cuts?

Despite its immense expected profits, the supermarket is inactive trying to chopped costs by astir £1 cardinal a year.

In 2024, it chopped astir 1,500 roles, which came mostly from a interaction centre successful Cheshire.

Late past year, the British precocious thoroughfare staple said that taxation increases successful chancellor Rachel Reeves’ October fund would origin an further £140 cardinal successful costs and pb to higher inflation.

Responding to Sainsbury’s announcement today, a Downing Street spokesperson said: ‘As we said astatine the Budget, hard decisions were needed to reconstruct economical stability, and enactment the nationalist finances backmost connected to a unchangeable footing.’

In comments shared with Metro, shadiness concern secretary, Andrew Griffith said: ‘Labour request to urgently undo their ‘jobs tax’.’

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