Another major supermarket has announced hundreds of job layoffs after Sainsbury’s said yesterday it would cut 3,000 head office staff roles.
Morrisons have said they will cut 200 staff in a major company shake-up.
The roles at risk are understood to be in customer service, employee engagement and payroll.
There are currently 497 Morrisons stores across the UK which see a total of over 11-million customers per week.
A spokesperson for Morrisons said the company carried out a ‘review of its people structure’ to make sure it is ‘offering stores and sites and timely and consistent service’.
They added: ‘We are therefore proposing to remove the roles of regional people manager, store people manager and case specialist from our structure, meaning colleagues in these roles are being placed at risk of redundancy.
‘The new structure will consist of a number of new central roles to support our supermarkets directly along with central HR support and additional employee relations roles.
‘Before any final decisions are taken, we will undertake a minimum 45-day consultation process.’
Another major supermarket has announced hundreds of job layoffs after Sainsbury’s said yesterday it would cut 3,000 head office staff roles
Morrisons have said they will cut 200 staff member in a major company shake up
It comes after the supermarket giant said it would be scaling back operations at its Rathbones bakery in November, halting the production of specialist bakery products and making less produce.
A £2.5billion deal in January 2024 saw the company sell off 337 off its petrol stations to help pay down debts.
Morrisons was overtaken by Aldi as the Britain’s fourth biggest supermarket chain almost three years ago.
It comes after Sainsbury’s yesterday announced it is closing all of its remaining in-store cafes as part of a major overhaul which will also see 3,000 jobs axed.
Simon Roberts, chief executive of the supermarket group, said the company was making the cuts as it attempts to slash spending by a £1billion a year in the face of a ‘particularly challenging cost environment’.
This is despite the supermarket chain recently announcing its ‘biggest ever’ Christmas trading period and predicting profits would likely be between £1.01 billion and £1.06 billion for the whole of 2025.
The job losses mean the current 148,000-strong workforce by will be reduced by 2 per cent and all of the 61 remaining cafes will be closed.
Sainsbury’s has announced it will cut more than 3,000 jobs and plans to shut its remaining in-store cafes as part of a major overhaul
Simon Roberts, chief executive of the supermarket group, said he was making the cuts as part of the company’s attempts to slash spending by a £1billion a year
Mr Roberts claimed Sainsbury’s shoppers did not use their cafes regularly anymore, whereas in-store food halls and concessions run by their ‘specialist partners’ had grown in popularity.
As part of the shake up, the retailer will also close its remaining patisserie, hot food and pizza counters in-store and shift the most popular items from there into regular shopping aisles.
The supermarket boss added: ‘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 decisions we are announcing today are essential to ensure we continue to drive forward our momentum but have also meant some difficult choices impacting our dedicated colleagues in a number of parts of our business.’
