Morrisons has announced plans to shut down 17 convenience stores, 52 cafes and over a hundred other in-store services.
The supermarket chain also plans to cut 18 market kitchens, 13 florists, 35 meat counters, 35 fish counters and four pharmacies in the next few months.
The changes put 396 Morrisons employees at risk of redundancy, the company has said.
It stressed a significant majority of their affected colleagues will be deployed elsewhere in the company.
Seventeen Morrisons Daily stores, which are smaller stores with extended hours and focused on local convenience.
The supermarket chain employs 95,000 people alongside its 1600 Morrisons Dailys and 500 supermarkets.
Morrisons said these closures are a reaction to ‘significant cost increases’.
The 174 store, counter and services cut were viewed as the least useful or valuable for customers.
Full list of 17 Morrisons Dailys to close
Gorleston Lowestoft Road
Peebles 3-5 Old Town
Shenfield 214 Hutton Road
Poole Waterloo Estate
Tonbridge Higham Lane Est
Romsey The Cornmarket
Stewarton Lainshaw Street
Selsdon Featherbed Lane
Haxby Village
Great Barr Queslett R
Whickham Oakfield Road
Worle
Goring-By-Sea Strand Para
Woking Westfield Road
Wokingham 40 Peach Street
Exeter 51 Sidwell Street
Bath Moorland Road
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.’
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