As reported in our sister publication The Grocer, Morrisons began consulting its staff on the planned closures earlier this week.
The Morrisons Daily closures will be carried out over the coming months, with the business citing government policy for rising costs.
The supermarket added that it will look to find openings for impacted staff elsewhere within its retail and manufacturing divisions “where possible”. It has not confirmed how many staff are at risk of redundancy.
Chief executive Rami Baitiéh had aimed to open hundreds of Morrisons Daily stores over the coming years, with the format having been a major source of growth for the company.
Despite signals suggesting otherwise, the company insisted that it remained committed to, and was on track with, its convenience growth plan.
The closures mark the latest major development to hit Morrisons’ convenience business in the past three months.
In February, convenience director Matt Heslop suddenly left the business after less than a year in the role.
This was followed by the announcement of a major restructure of the convenience buying team, which saw Morrisons Daily commercial and support functions merged with the supermarket buying team to form a single division under group trading director Andrew Staniland.
The latest closures follow an announcement made last year confirming that Morrisons intended to close 52 cafés and 17 convenience stores.
This is in addition to news last month that the firm was set to cut as many as 200 jobs from its Bradford head office.
