BREAKING: Morrisons to close four pharmacies

Supermarket giant Morrisons has revealed plans to close four of its pharmacies following a "wide-ranging review".

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"Costs...are significantly out of line with usage, volumes or value customers place"

Morrisons today (March 24) announced that it is “proposing a number of changes over the next few months”, including the closure of four pharmacies.

It said that “a wide-ranging review identified a number of areas where the costs of operations are significantly out of line with usage, volumes or the value that customers place on them”.

Read more: Revealed: Which Morrisons pharmacy locations are closing?

The supermarket also set out plans to close 52 cafés, all 18 of its “market kitchens”, 17 convenience stores, 13 florists, 35 meat counters and 35 fish counters.

It said that while the “significant majority” of staff affected are “expected to be deployed in suitable roles elsewhere in Morrisons”, a total of “around 365 colleagues” are at risk of redundancy.

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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