The café at a Netherfield branch of retailer M&S is set to close this weekend.
The M&S Foodhall café at the store on Victoria Retail Park will shut for good this Saturday (October 25) as part of changes to the premises.
Marks & Spencer revealed plans earlier this month to shut 11 cafés within its smaller food outlets. The overhaul forms part of a £300million investment and store rotation scheme, designed to boost the number of M&S food halls.
The retailer said the closures will impact just 4% of the group’s 316 food shops. No redundancies will result from the move, with affected employees retaining positions within their stores.
Margeret Mills travels from Bingham to meet a friend at the cafe and said she is ‘devastated’ by closure plans.
“It’s ideal for me,” she said.
“I come a few times a month to meet a friend for a drink and pick up shopping at the same time. It’s such a shame it’s going. It is nice to have a sit down and a treat after a trip around the shops.”
M&S is bouncing back from a cyber attack in April, which led to a halt in online orders and is estimated by investors to cost the retailer around £300million.
Customer personal data, potentially including names, email addresses, postal addresses and dates of birth, was compromised during the attack.
