Three more Iceland stores will be closing their doors for good next month, taking the total number of Iceland stores closed this year to 18.
The frozen food specialist has closed over a dozen of its stores since the beginning of this year, and three more will be closing for good over the course of September. The first site to go is its Llanelli store in Wales. This will be pulling down the shutters this week on Saturday, September 2 at 5pm. The town centre branch is one of two Iceland stores in the area with shoppers still able to visit the chain's larger out-of-town Food Warehouse at Llanelli's Parc Pemberton Retail Park.
After this, Iceland's town centre store in Crewe will be closing two weeks later on Saturday, September 16. The closure of the Market Shopping Centre site was announced in June and according to a report by Crewe Nub News around 22 jobs will be affected. On the same day, the frozen food supermarket will be closing its Birkenhead store in the Wirral.
The shop, on Grange Road, next to Pyramids Shopping Centre, will shut its doors for good after it finishes trading at 6pm. There are two other Iceland stores as well as a Food Warehouse site located nearby in Birkenhead so shoppers won't have too far to go after the closure. It is uncertain how many Iceland staff will be affected by the overall closures of the stores.
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Asda praised over inclusive kids clothing range with holes for feeding tubesIn a statement about the September closures, an Iceland spokesperson said: "Across Iceland and The Food Warehouse we have a portfolio of over UK 1,000 stores, and our retail estate has grown by nearly 200 stores over the last ten years. We typically open more than 20 new stores each year, creating many new jobs and contributing to the growth of local economies.
"At the same time, we continually review the retail experience offered to our customers and have always made a small number of store closures every year, as local shopping patterns change and shop leases expire. The business is currently trading very strongly, achieving record market shares. Customers can find their closest Iceland and The Food Warehouse stores here.”
The supermarket chain has also opened new stores over the summer months. In May, Iceland opened a new Food Warehouse site in Kendal and in June a new Iceland branch opened in Slough and a Food Warehouse branch in Aberdeen.