Sentence examples for supermarket closures from inspiring English sources

It's a view echoed by Belinda Blythe, a volunteer at Muirhouse Community Shop, which opened two years ago following the supermarket closures.

The former boss of Tesco has described the rise of supermarkets and closure of small shops as "part of progress".

The once thriving pub industry has been brought to its knees due to cheap beer and lager on sale in supermarkets, leading to mass closures.

Locals in Kirkcaldy, north of Edinburgh over the Firth of Forth, are actively fighting against the closure of their supermarket.

Morrisons continued its freefall, down another 7.4p to 157.8p, as HSBC cut its profit forecasts for the ailing supermarket group after last week's store closures.

After only two years, they now have five full-time colleagues and are part of a beery success story which the attention on pub closures and dirt-cheap supermarket drink has concealed.

But the report - coupled with earlier findings in Ghost Town Britain, about our dying high streets - laid the blame not just on supermarkets, but on the closure of post offices, bank branches and family run pubs.

"After all," he says, "the continued closure of supermarkets in disadvantaged areas will lead to more unemployment and likely have devastating effects on the health of an already vulnerable population".

The closures come after months of speculation that the supermarket would be forced to shut a number of underperforming stores that had been too hastily snapped up in a rapid expansion plan.

The fall of Fopp follows a string of closures and dire trading figures as competition from supermarkets and the web grows.

Shutting the Kirkcaldy store would also mean the closure of the town's post office, which is based within the supermarket.