Tesco store closures - list released

[jamiebae]

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/t...

As expected most are the Metro and Express format, but there are a few proper superstores shutting too, mostly those located in less, erm, glamorous locations like Kirkcaldy, Chatham and Doncaster. For some of these places the closures will be devastating, it's amazing how communities are usually against new supermarkets, but when an existing one closes it can have a huge impact.

[jamiebae]

LordHaveMurci said:

Yep, the huge impact will be to allow small independent businesses to flourish again if another supermarket giant doesn't fill the void.

I'm not so sure about that, The impact will be 100-200 people out of a job, and residents taking their spend to other towns to do their main shopping.

These superstore closures are in deprived areas, where people can't afford to shop in local high street stores for the stuff they'd buy from the supermarket. What the closures will do is make it even less likely that it's viable to open a small business there as without an 'anchor tenant' it's much harder to draw footfall into the area.

[jamiebae]

MrAndyW said:

You may find that it "might" be because the land is so valuable,rather than the "erm glamourous locations" as you put it,
Doncaster has a massive superstore out of town and the one they are closing is in town with lots of car parking, Surrounded by lots of expensive car parking,
Ker-ching either way,
By the the way Doncaster isnt that bad, it's got some s**t bits and some *s**t people, the same as any other town or city in the UK,

The PR line is that the store is loss making, but it could well be that there's an internal charge to rent the land from another Tesco subsidiary which makes it lose money. If they have an out-of-town store though I'm sure that makes a difference to the decision.

I'm surprised they are keeping the Salisbury center store open, I can't believe that one is really viable either.

[jamiebae]

Pesty said:

Feirny said:

MrAndyW said:

You may find that it "might" be because the land is so valuable,rather than the "erm glamourous locations" as you put it,
Doncaster has a massive superstore out of town and the one they are closing is in town with lots of car parking, Surrounded by lots of expensive car parking,
Ker-ching either way,
By the the way Doncaster isnt that bad, it's got some s**t bits and some *s**t people, the same as any other town or city in the UK,

Doncaster centre Tesco is horrible, about time they got shut of it. Glad it's not the Balby one, though.

it says supperstore and that has to be the balby one? shame thats were i get my petrol and the only place that sells salted sunflower seeds

the center store is a horrid place

It's difficult to tell which one it is, as someone ram-raided another Tesco in Doncaster so it's tricky to search for info without a load of stuff about the raid coming up.

Superstore just means a normal Tesco though, big ones are Extra so I assume it'd be the old town centre one.

[jamiebae]

Church View
Doncaster
South Yorkshire
DN1 1RE
England

That's the address of 'Doncaster Superstore' on the Tesco website

[jamiebae]

bluenosewrx said:

The one in Kirkcaldy id right in the town centre, they have every other supermarket in and around the fringes of town with free parking.

it'll be flats by this time next year, fking stehole anyway

As if the town centre wasn't empty and unappealing enough as it was.

It's starting to look like Tesco is trying to release some equity from its land bank, I bet most of the big sites are freehold and will become housing, car dealerships or similar.

[jamiebae]

We're heading full-circle with developments now. I've heard of car dealer groups buying up office and even residential sites to flatten and build new dealerships on, there's a shortage of the prime sites for a lot of business types and they're trying to expand again after the recession. Manufacturers have open points they need to fill, and want to do it in the right locations so they're prepared to subsidise the development if needed.

I don't think the store in Kirkcaldy will get this treatment though