Big four supermarket Sainsbury’s will cut 3,000 jobs in the UK as it seeks to cut costs at its headquarters and it closes cafes and hot food counters.
It will cut one in five senior managers, it said, as the company undergoes a three-year £1bn cost-cutting push.
But the job losses come ahead of another wave of costs which retailers face after Chancellor Rachel Reeves increased employers’ national insurance payments.
Simon Roberts, Sainsbury’s Chief Executive, said: “We are facing into a particularly challenging cost environment which means we have had to make tough choices about where we can afford to invest and where we need to do things differently to make our business more efficient and effective.
“The decisions we are announcing today are essential to ensure we continue to drive forward our momentum but have also meant some difficult choices impacting our dedicated colleagues in a number of parts of our business. We’ll be doing everything we can to support anyone impacted by today’s announcements.”
The company employs 148,000 people.
Sainsbury’s cut 1,500 jobs in February last year as it cut staff at its bakeries, a call centre in Cheshire and some distribution centres.
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