Exact date confirmed for closure of major supermarket's remaining cafes this month
- Sainsbury's will close its remaining 61 in-store cafes on April 11 as part of a major shake up.
- The decision to close cafes stems from lower footfall and the increasing popularity of hybrid cafe-food halls.
- Sainsbury's announced the planned closures in January, also impacting patisserie, rotisserie, and pizza counters.
- A spokesperson said the closures were a 'difficult decision', while CEO Simon Roberts cited a 'challenging cost environment'.
- These closures form part of a cost-cutting strategy to save £1 billion annually, potentially resulting in 3,000 job losses.
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Sainsbury's closing 61 supermarket cafes in days with full list of branches shutting - Birmingham Live
The decision to close Sainsbury's in-store cafes was taken in an attempt to cut the supermarket's spending by £1 billion per year in a "particularly challenging cost environment"
Sainsbury's confirms exact date for 61 in-store cafe closures
A major British supermarket has confirmed the exact date that it will close dozens of in-store cafes across the UK.Sainsbury's first announced the shock closures earlier this year in January, just a few months after the Labour Chancellor announced her ill-received October Budget, ridden with tax rises. Now, the cafes' doors are due to shut on April 11, as the chain takes an axe to its much-loved patisserie, bakery, rotisserie and pizza counters …
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