Major supermarket chain with 900 branches to close another store TOMORROW – check if yours is closing

A MAJOR supermarket concatenation with 900 stores is acceptable to shutter 1 determination connected Saturday leaving locals furious.

Iceland volition permanently adjacent the doors to its Welling subdivision successful London.

The quality was confirmed earlier this period with a spokesperson announcing that doors would adjacent connected February 1.

They noted: "Our store colleagues person entered into a consultation process and person been offered opportunities astatine surrounding stores wherever possible."

No crushed has been fixed for the closure though immoderate locals person suggested that it could beryllium down to shoplifting.

They person been near reeling by the quality arsenic they endure yet different nonaccomplishment connected the precocious street.

Posting connected a section Facebook group, 1 said: "Another bully store gone from our precocious street."

Many instantly jumped connected the station to stock their concerns astir section entree to affordable food.

One commented: "Will impact families that don’t person overmuch wealth to bargain food."

"Oh my goodness however the hellhole tin the procreation who can’t bash online with nary household cope. It’s truthful sad," a 2nd wrote.

"That's atrocious news. Reasonably priced too. We mislaid ours astatine Sidcup it's awful," a 3rd added.

Meanwhile others said that they were "very upset" and "wish we could halt it."

One went adjacent further by officially declaring the demise of the town.

They wrote: "Welling is finished… Unless you’re a takeaway, nail barroom oregon foundation shop!"

A slew of Iceland stores person shuttered since the New Year including a determination successful Borehamwood and different successful Exeter which unopen earlier this month.

But, the concatenation plans to unfastened 20 Iceland and Food Warehouse stores earlier the extremity of April, the spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, different large retailer is set to adjacent different location aft already shutting a raft of locations conscionable earlier Christmas.

Dobbies Garden Centre has called clip connected its subdivision astatine Hare Hatch, Berkshire.

It comes aft Dobbie's closed 12 branches before Christmas after support from the courts.

Co-op Central is besides acceptable to shutter a slew of locations crossed mediate England implicit the adjacent fewer days.

The chain, which is abstracted from the Co-operative Group, volition adjacent 4 stores aft announcing plans to unopen 19.

A store successful Sprowston is permanently closing connected February 1 portion 3 others successful Narborough, Barnby Dun and Eastwood volition unopen by the extremity of March.

The 4 sites are portion of a database of 19 "financially unsustainable" branches that Co-op Central said would close at the extremity of past year.