MORRISONS has announced a key change to its Bromsgrove store under plans to cut cafes, florists and meat counters.
The supermarket giant has confirmed it will be closing the cafe at the Buntsford Industrial Park store.
This comes as part of plans to close 52 Cafes, all 18 Market Kitchens, 17 Convenience stores, 13 florists, 35 meat counters, 35 fish counters and four pharmacies across the country.
It is expected the cuts will be roled out over the next few months.
Morrisons said the majority of colleagues affected by these changes are expected to be deployed in suitable roles elsewhere in the company.
It added there would be a total of around 365 colleagues at risk of redundancy across the country due to these cuts.
Rami Baitiéh, Chief Executive of Morrisons, said: “The changes we are announcing today are a necessary part of our plans to renew and reinvigorate Morrisons and enable us to focus our investment into the areas that customers really value and that can play a full part in our growth.
“Morrisons Cafés are rightly famous for their great quality well-priced food, their place in the local community and their appealing mix of traditional favourites alongside exciting new dishes.
“In most locations the Morrisons Café has a bright future, but a minority have specific local challenges and in those locations, regrettably, closure and re-allocation of the space is the only sensible option.
“Market Street is a beacon of differentiation for Morrisons and we remain committed to it. But as we modernise we are making some necessary changes to the areas of the model which are simply uneconomic. In some stores where we are closing counters or Cafés, we plan to work with third parties to provide a relevant specialist offer.
“Although these changes are relatively small in the context of the overall scale of the Morrisons business, we do not take lightly the disruption and uncertainty they will cause to some of our colleagues. We will of course take particular care to look after all of them well through the coming changes.”
