Major supermarket closes store on popular high street in latest closure drama

An M&S store is closing its doors for bully contiguous after decades connected the precocious street.

The Crawley subdivision has been forced to sell their past battalion of Percy Pigs aft ‘shopping patterns changed’, according to the retail giant.

Graham Bennett, M&S determination manager, said: ‘After consulting with our colleagues pursuing our proposals earlier this year, our Queensway store volition adjacent connected Saturday, November 16.

‘Individual conversations are continuing with our colleagues and wherever possible, we volition beryllium offering them alternate roles with M&S.

‘Thank you to each our customers who person shopped astatine the store – we volition proceed to enactment hard serving you astatine our adjacent Acorn Park M&S Food.’

Crawley Borough’s Council person Michael Jones said the closure was a ‘real stroke for the municipality centre’, according to Sussex world.

Customers person expressed their disappointment, with 1 penning connected Facebook: ‘Very aggravated and upset astir this.’

Another added: ‘This is not going to beryllium bully for our town. This was the lone decent store we had.’

Luckily the nearest store is present acold distant successful retail parkland Acorn park.

Mr Bennett besides said they are hoping to put successful a caller store successful the country for the future.

But for present the Queensway subdivision volition stay closed.

The concatenation has 405 stores crossed the country, but was forced to adjacent branches successful Manchester, Swindon and Birmingham betwixt August and November past year.

They confirmed its Murraygate Dundee will shut for bully connected July 6, and the the Belfry Shopping Centre concatenation successful Redhill, Surrey stated is would adjacent connected August 17.

M&S besides revealed the closure of its Walworth store successful South London, and its home store successful Kingditch Trading Estate successful Tewkesbury, Cheltenham.

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