Morrisons To Close Hull Store

Morrisons is set to close one of its stores in Hull.

The supermarket chain has confirmed that its premises at North Point Centre in Bransholme is one of ten loss-making shops across the country that have been earmarked for closure.

It's after poor sales over the Christmas period with like for like sales falling by 3.1% in the six weeks to the beginning of January.

A Morrisons spokesperson told Viking FM:

“We have looked extremely carefully at whether the store can be turned around but unfortunately we cannot see a way of making it viable. We are therefore proposing its closure. We are consulting with colleagues and unions to reduce the risk of redundancies and we are looking at ways of redeploying colleagues around our business.”

Meanwhile Hull North MP Diana Johnson has responded to the news. She says:

"Given the lack of good full-time jobs in the Hull area, especially in relation to the number of job-seekers chasing them, it's worrying that Morrisons at Northpoint is to close.

"The process on what will happen to jobs at the store will now start, but this is clearly bad news for Northpoint and the Hull area.

"It shows that in our area the economic recovery remains fragile and is held back by the spending power taken out of our local economy since 2010. We already have a problem with the loss of retail jobs and empty shops in Hull and we've lost major players such as Comet in recent years."