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Article: M&S axes 37 jobs as Newtownards store to shut
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- January 8, 2009
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MARKS & Spencer yesterday became another casualty of the economic
gloom after revealing it is set to axe more than 1,000 jobs.
The retail giant said 1,230 jobs across UK stores - including 37
in Northern Ireland - will go after its worst sales figures for
almost a decade.
Of the stores to close, 25 are under-performing Simply Food
outlets, and two are small main chain stores selling food and
clothes.
The Newtownards Simply Food store, based in Ards Shopping Centre,
is the only store here earmarked for closure at this time.
The announcement comes as the ailing high street retailer
revealed its like-for-like sales tumbled 7.1% in the 13 weeks to
December 27 - its biggest sales collapse since ...