Wigan Morrisons confirmed for closure
The retailer is to close its supermarket in Ince along with three others in England, with Morrisons instead looking to invest in four other stores.
A 45-day consultation process with staff has now begun to determine when the store on Makerfield Way will close and how to minimise job losses.
The Ince branch is the only store in the North West to close. The others are in Crawley in West Sussex, Shirley in Solihull, and Regents Circus in Swindon town centre.
Overall, the closures are set to put 400 jobs at risk.
A spokesperson for Morrisons said: “As we continue to focus on building a broader, stronger Morrisons we are constantly reviewing opportunities for new stores and the performance of our existing estate. We are planning to invest in four new stores this year and are today, regrettably, proposing to close our Ince store.
“We will now be going through a consultation process at the store and will be discussing how to reduce redundancies and, where possible, redeploy our highly valued colleagues within the business.”
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Get some houses built on it.
This has been on the cards for years and will make a great Housing Site – just hope the Staff manage to get fixed up elsewhere
The benefits of being forced to be part of Greater Manchester eh? Something we (Wigan) had absolutely no say in
Not quite sure what wigan being in greater Manchester has to do with the closure of a retail store located half a mile from the closest main road. You could drive along Manchester Road and have no idea you’re passing it. Unfortunately its no shock that it is closing down.
Need a morrisons more near the town centre so it is on bus route need a car for ince
No use moaning about it now. It’s like a lot of other things weve lost in wigan. Use it or lose it guys!!
Lot of people live near the store also people travel from all over to go to the store .
As the town centre one has gone the nearest morrisons is now in Leigh and you need a car to get there as it’s near the rugby club and long way from the town centre.
I worked there when I left school in 1995 for 3 years. The shop was heaving then with all 24 tills on and all the isles where full. It’s a shame it’s closing
No staff to serve any customers, so they go elsewhere
Morrison’s in Ince will be sad to see the store shut . Enjoyed shopping there friendly staff and a great Csfe .
Let’s have an Aldi in Ince or a Lidl we need a supermarket
That’s not Morrisons Wigan. Morrisons Wigan closed a long time ago, that one is Morrisons Ince in Makerfield.
get some houses built on it what nobody can afford mortgage on then council can take them over and put the town in more debt
The management that morrisons brought in over last 3 years have run the store into the ground. No market street counters open from 4pm most evenings, no fresh baked bread on sale, never a butcher available to cut the beef etc and never replaced staff that left. Poor availability on even the basic of products. No pride compared to years ago and long serving staff losing faith . Thank god the likes of Ken Mortison, George Buttle and Mark Harrison were not here to see this. Shame on you.
Such a shame one of the best Morrison’s only went here every week staff fantastic such a shame after losing the Wigan one in the town centre if you wanted more custom should of advertised more as it’s out the way signs should of been put up then the buissness woukdvof been booming Morrison’s quality beats Asda and tesco and Sainsbury’s I think should of kept it open and rethinked advertising plus a sign to say were it was would of helped a lot me and my partner are gutted even tho we have to go to Leigh Morrison’s it isn’t as good things ain’t laided out properely and feels to closed in at Leigh store like they trying cram so much in they can’t cope ince Morrison’s was layed out nice could take your time walking around with no trolly bashers
So sorry, that story is closed. I have not car and for me Morrison was very good. I very like Morrison ! Now I am very upset.
Regards
Jurate Z.
KENDAL HOUSE
I shopped here coz it was the nearest supermarket. I dnt have a car, now I hv to go miles to buy groceries.
Affordable Pies are the key to success in Wigan