{"id":14171,"date":"2019-07-19T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2019-07-19T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:21:25","slug":"waitrose-to-cut-seven-more-stores-putting-700-jobs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/waitrose-to-cut-seven-more-stores-putting-700-jobs-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitrose to cut seven more stores putting 700 jobs at risk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waitrose plans to close seven more stores as it goes through its second run of store reductions this year. This means 700 jobs will be at risk. Three of its supermarkets have already been sold to Lidl as cut price supermarkets are becoming increasingly popular.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-14173\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_571474204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_571474204.jpg 1369w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_571474204-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_571474204-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_571474204-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/shutterstock_571474204-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The stores closing are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bromley in London<\/li>\n<li>Oadby in Leicestershire<\/li>\n<li>Wollaton in Nottinghamshire<\/li>\n<li>Sandhurst<\/li>\n<li>Marlow<\/li>\n<li>Stevenage<\/li>\n<li>Waterside near Heathrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company will now start consultation with the 677 employees who are affected. The employees will have options including potential redeployment within the group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Gifford, Waitrose\u2019s director of shop trade, said:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>We haven\u2019t taken this decision lightly but we have to do what\u2019s right for the business as a whole. Thanks to the hard work of all our partners we\u2019re making good progress and Waitrose &amp; Partners is on track for profit growth this year but, despite the best efforts of everyone involved, we haven\u2019t been able to find a way to make these shops profitable in the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waitrose plans to close seven more stores as it goes through its second run of store reductions this year. This means 700 jobs will be at risk. Three of its supermarkets have already been sold to Lidl as cut price supermarkets are becoming increasingly popular. The stores closing are: Bromley in London Oadby in Leicestershire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1447,1446,101,1445],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-businesses","tag-supermarkets","tag-uk","tag-waitrose"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14175,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions\/14175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}