Morrisons to close 132 McColl's stores putting jobs at risk

Morrisons says it plans to adjacent 132 of its loss-making McColl's convenience stores, putting 1,300 jobs astatine risk.

Workers who could beryllium made redundant volition beryllium offered jobs elsewhere successful the business, the supermarket concatenation said.

The determination comes aft Morrisons agreed to bargain the McColl's concatenation retired of medication successful May.

Morrisons present plans to person each its remaining McColl's stores into Morrisons Daily shops arsenic it tries to instrumentality the concatenation to growth.

There are presently 1,164 McColl's stores trading, 286 of which run nether the Morrisons Daily brand.

Morrisons said each of the stores acceptable to adjacent had been "loss-making for immoderate time" and "no realistic prospect" of recovering soon.

The bulk volition beryllium closed "in an orderly manner implicit the remainder of the year", it added.