The Co-op have just completed a £570,000 overhaul of the former Forbes café and bakery on the Great North Road, Muir Of Ord, Ross-shire. This Wednesday (7th December, 2011) saw the doors of the new 180 square metre store open for the first time along with the creation of 19 job vacancies. The shop still…
Asda are nearing completion of their refurbishment of the former Co-op store at 25 Church Road, Tiptree, Essex. The supermarket is due to open on Monday, 28th November, 2011 and there will be 64 new job vacancies created. This is over and above the 40 posts being occupied by the Co-op employees who will be…
Somerfield are to close their store on Marine Road, Pensarn, Abergele, Conwy at the end of business on Saturday, 26th November. As a result, all 7 full-time and 16 part-time employees will face redundancy. The Co-op, who own Somerfield, say that poor trading performance has necessitated the closure of the supermarket. They have promised to try…
Co-op Travel and Thomas Cook, as part of their joint venture, are making approximately 300 staff redundant from their offices around the country. The statutory consultation period has begun for affected staff as Co-op Travel and Midlands Co-op Travel look to cut the number of workers in Burslem, Ilkeston, Lichfield and Manchester. The group’s support…
The Co-op is to close its store on Devizes High Street on Friday, 25th November, 2011 with all 30 of its staff being made redundant. The store was only taken over by the Co-op last year. Before that it was operated by Somerfield with Gateway and Mac Fisheries, the original supermarket operator, before them. The…
The Co-op continues its shedding of jobs with the news that its store on Langbourne Road, Whitby, North Yorkshire is to axe the equivalent of 25 full-time positions by the end of 2011. The supermarket currently employs 150 workers and they were told on Monday that an instruction had come through from Head Office to…
The Co-op is making a host of redundancies acrossScotlandin an effort to rationalise staffing levels. Since many of the jobs are shared, the numbers of staff affected are up to double the number of full-time equivalent redundancies. The cuts, given in terms of full-time jobs, are as follows: Stornoway – 24 Redundancies Lerwick – 14…
The Co-op is to cut the equivalent of 24 full-time jobs at its store on Stornoway. Since these jobs are shared, this means about 50 workers now face redundancy. The Co-op say that the cuts were necessary in order to introduce ‘fairer and more consistent standards’. More about Co-op jobs.
The Co-op has been granted planning permission to relocate its existing High Street, Broughton, Lincolnshire store to the space behind the Dog and Rat public house at the corner where the High Street turns into Broughton Lane. Around £1½m is being spent making the move to the new premises which, at 280 square metres, will…
The Co-op has put just over £1/3m into upgrading its Elcho Road, Longniddry and Duns Road, Gifford stores, both of which are in East Lothian. The extended supermarkets will offer more space for chilled items and also have in-store bakeries. The Gifford Co-op will also become slightly larger by absorbing the former Post Office area….
