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A significant UK grocery store has revealed the precise date its cafes will shut and it’s days away. Sainsbury’s will shut 61 of its in-store grocery store cafes on Friday, April 11, the corporate has stated. The overhaul will see 3,000 jobs reduce. The resolution to shut Sainsbury’s in-store cafes was taken in an try to chop the grocery store’s spending by £1 billion per yr in a “particularly challenging cost environment”, chief govt of the grocery store group Simon Roberts has stated.

Roberts stated that the in-store cafes weren’t visited by prospects as regulary as they was and that there has as a substitute been a development in reputation in meals halls and concessions run by their “specialist partners”. The deliberate closure of the cafes was first introduced in January. In a latest assertion, a spokesperson for the grocery store stated: “In January, we shared the difficult decision that our remaining Sainsbury’s cafes would be closing and this will take place on April 11.

The statement continued: “We are sorry for any disappointment this may increasingly trigger. Our shops proceed to assist the purchasers and communities they serve in a variety of the way, together with by way of fundraising, volunteering and donations to good causes.

“We’re exploring future opportunities for the space and will keep our colleagues and customers updated.”

Meanwhile, Roberts stated: “As we accelerate into year two and beyond of our strategy, we are facing into a particularly challenging cost environment which means we have had to make tough choices about where we can afford to invest and where we need to do things differently to make our business more efficient and effective.

“The selections we’re asserting immediately are important to make sure we proceed to drive ahead our momentum however have additionally meant some tough selections impacting our devoted colleagues in quite a few components of our enterprise.”

However, there are plans for the cafes to be replaced by franchise eateries such as Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Starbucks.

The news comes despite the supermarket, which has more than 1,400 stores in the UK, recently announced its “largest ever” Christmas buying and selling interval with predicted earnings being over £1 billion.

Sainbiry’s workfore might be diminished by 2 %. It additionally plans to shut its remaining patisserie, sizzling meals and pizza counters in-store and transfer fashionable objects from these areas to grocery store cabinets.

The remaining Sainsbury’s in-store cafes which are closing are:

• Was Park
• Pontypridd
• Rustington
• Scarborough
• Penzance
• Denton
• Wrexham
• Longwater
• Ely
• Pontllal
• Emersons Green
• Nantwich
• Pinhoe Road
• Pepper Hill – Northfleet
• Marshall Lake
• Rhyl
• Lincoln
• Bridgemead
• Larkfield
• Whitchurch Bargates
• Sedlescombe Road
• Barnstaple
• Dewsbury
• Kings Lynn Hardwick
• Truro
• Warren Heath
• Godalming
• Hereford
• Chichester
• Bognor Regis
• Newport
• Talbot Heath
• Rugby
• Cannock
• Leek
• Winterstoke Road
• Hazel Grove
• Morecambe
• Darlington
• Monks Cross
• Marsh Mills
• Springfield
• Durham
• Bamber Bridge
• Weedon Road
• Hempstead Valley
• Hedge End
• Bury St Edmunds
• Thanet Westwood Cross
• Stanway
• Castle Point
• Isle of Wight
• Keighley
• Swadlincote
• Leicester North
• Wakefield Marsh Way
• Torquay
• Waterlooville
• Macclesfield
• Harrogate
• Cheadle