Major supermarket announces it will shut 17 stores in days

Morrisons Daily branches in Exeter, Tonbridge and Worle among those affected

By HARVEY DORSET

Updated: 14:11 BST, 8 April 2025

Morrisons’ closure of 17 stores across the country is set to take place in just a matter of days, it has been revealed.

Of those set to be shuttered, 16 will be closed on Wednesday 16 April, with one branch in Haxby, North Yorkshire, to be closed on 14 May, according to reporting from The Sun.

The stores set to close are all Morrisons Daily branches, 11 of which have post offices which are also set to close. The post offices will be shit between 9 April and 14 May.

Those closing include branches in Exeter, Tonbridge and Worle.

Morrisons Daily locations operate as convenience stores, with extended opening hours.

The supermarket announced the closures of the 17 convenience stores last month, also announcing that it will shut 52 of its cafes, placing 365 jobs at risk.

Closures: Morrisons said it will shutter 16 of its Morissons Daily stores on 16 April

Which stores are set to close?

Lowestoft Road, Gorleston – 16 April
3-5 Old Town, Peebles – 16 April
214 Hutton Road, Shenfield – 16 April
Waterloo Estate, Poole – 16 April
Higham Lane Estate, Tonbridge – 16 April
The Cornmarket, Romsey – 16 April
Lainshaw Street, Stewarton – 16 April
Featherbed Lane, Selsdon – 16 April
19 The Village, Haxby – 14 May
Queslett Road, Great Barr – 16 April
Oakfield Road, Whickham – 16 April
Queensway, Worle – 16 April
Strand Parade, Goring-By-Sea – 16 April
Westfield Road, Woking – 16 April
40 Peach Street, Wokingham – 16 April
51 Sidwell Street, Exeter – 16 April
Moorland Road, Bath – 16 April

The chain will also ditch 35 meat counters, 35 fish counters, four pharmacies and all 18 of its market kitchen food courts.

The supermarket chain, which employs 95,000 people in its supermarkets and a further 1,600 at its Morrison’s Daily stores, has been suffering in recent years, having lost a large chunk of its market share.

Morrisons now commands just 8.5 per cent of the market.

Last month, the chain announced it has boosted its medium-term savings target to £1billion.

Morrisons made £56million in cost savings in the three months to 26 January, and said it will deliver the remainder of its initial £700billion cost savings target in the second quarter.

The costs savings come as a result of an ‘avalanche of costs’ that chief executive Rami Baitiéh warned will partly arise from changes to National Insurance contributions and the minimum wage.

The supermarket told the Sun: ‘Morrisons has made the difficult decision to close some Morrisons Daily stores, some of which contain Post Offices.

‘We fully recognise the inconvenience this will cause for our customers and apologise for the short notification as these branches close between 9 April and 14 May.’

Announcing the closures last month, Baitiéh 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.’

Major supermarket announces it will shut 17 stores in days

Which stores are set to close?

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