‘Shock and upset’ as discount supermarket with 300 stores to abruptly close shop in days
A DISCOUNT supermarket with more than 300 stores is to abruptly close one of its branches within days.
The Farmfoods store in Market Street, Huddersfield, is to close on Sunday, September 24.
Shoppers will get the chance to snap up bargains on the shop's last day with 50% off all stock.
News of the closure has been shared across social media with many many expressing sadness over the decision.
One Facebook user said: "Huddersfield in town stores closing down = Iceland, Farmfoods and Wilkos, why? Rent too high."
Another added: "Hudersfield is done."
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Meanwhile, Farmfood shoppers told of their "shock and upset" over the decision.
The bargain supermarket, famous for its frozen foods, has around 300 shops across Great Britain.
It often has some cheap offers on popular products, which shoppers regularly rush to pick up including makeup and air fryers too at stores across the country.
But this isn't the first store that Farmfoods has closed this year.
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Its Cowgate store in Dundee shut in March, with another Glasgow shop closing the month before.
Plus its store in West Bromwich closed in May.
The frozen food specialist branch at the end of February.
The store hosted a 50% off sale which saw shoppers to pick up discounted items.
Another store in Grangemouth shut up shop back in January, with two others in Ayrshire and Renfrewshire closing in October 2022.
You can find your closest Farmfoods by heading over to the website and using the handy locator tool.
Other store closures
Soaring inflation has left shoppers strapped for cash, and retailers are struggling to get customers to part with their hard-earned money.
High energy costs and a shift to online shopping are also taking a toll and many brands and many just haven't been able to keep going.
All Wilko stores will close for good by October, administrators announced on Monday.
The first 52 closures began on Tuesday, with 24 shops shutting for good by the end of the day.
A further 28 sites will close today, resulting in over 1,000 redundancies.
Tesco closed its bargain supermarket brand Jack's last year, converting six of the 13 branches into new Tesco superstores, while the others permanently closed.
One of the stores that switched from a Jack's to a Tesco is located in Kilner Way Retail Park in Sheffield.
But Tesco confirmed that this store will close on Friday, September 15 because of low customer demand.
Meanwhile, Iceland will be pulling the shutters down on two of its supermarkets next Saturday.
The discount chain has closed over a dozen shops this year already.
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The chain's supermarkets in the Market Shopping Centre in Crewe and its branch in Grange Road, Birkenhead will then close for the last time on Saturday, September 16.
It follows the closures of 15 Iceland supermarkets earlier this year.
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