Tesco has named the 43 stores it is to close as part of Dave Lewis’s £250m cuts.
The locations of the stores revealed to be closing, of which many are Metro or Express stores, are:
Bearwood Express store
Belvedere Express store
Church Street Ballymena Express store
Heaton Chapel Express store
Heybridge Essex Express store
Houghton Regis Express store
Liverpool Kensington Express store
Longbridge Road Barking Express store
Northfield Birmingham Express store
Raymouth Lane Worksop Express store
Sheffield Manor Express store
South Tottenham High Road Express store
Tredegar Express store
Troon Express store
Walsall Wood Express store
Wealdstone Express store
Whitley Bay Express store
York Road Hartlepool Express store
Bicester Metro store
Bootle Metro store
Caerphilly Metro store
Crossgates Metro store
Devizes Metro store
Grangemouth Metro store
Mexborough Metro store
Morecambe Metro store
Ormskirk Metro store
Runcorn Metro store
Smethwick Metro store
Woodseats Metro store
Bedlington Superstore
Chatham Superstore
Connswater Superstore
Cregagh Road Superstore
Doncaster Superstore
Kirkcaldy Superstore
Wrexham Dodds Lane Superstore
Bristol Cribbs Homeplus
Chelmsford Homeplus
Chester Homeplus
Edinburgh Homeplus
Southampton Homeplus
Staines Homeplus
Tesco CEO Dave Lewis said: “In January I announced that our performance as a business has fallen significantly short of where we would want it to be and that to protect the future of the business in the UK we would close 43 unprofitable stores.
“The decision to close the stores has been exceptionally difficult to take. I recognise it will affect many hard working colleagues, our customers and local communities.
“Our priority is to explain what this announcement means for our colleagues and wherever possible, offer them alternative roles with Tesco. We will continue to serve our customers through other local stores and our dotcom service.”
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