Why are Morrison and Sinsburi’s cafes closed?

It is on Friday that he is busy in the afternoon in the Morrison city of Queensberri, northwest of London and the store is busy.

On a table, a teenager enters the sandwich with a friend while calling him a friend. It stays for more than half an hour.

In another, an elderly couple communicate with a hot meal, while customers are constantly formed in place.

but this is one of 52 cafes that are scheduled to be closed – Among others in London, Leeds, Portsmouth and Glasgow – which was announced this week in a costly drive that the supermarket says to “renew and strengthen Morrisons” and focus “investment for the areas that customers really value.

that two months later Sainsbury’s has said it will close all 61 cafes of the market..

While some market cafes are inevitable, customers across the country told the BBC News that these cafes give them a cheap and appropriate place to get a hot meal while friends arrive.

Normalists in Morrison Cafe in Queensberry he was impressed – and he was sad – when he hears closing.

Filomena Hughes, 76, was eating a meal with two friends. The three men collided with a couple who know him in the café, who go to the table next to them and participate in the conversation.

Filomena says it’s “irregular” about the closure. “The Morrison was really the only place I was coming,” he said. “We know people we know here.

Other ordinary cafe players tell the BBC that they have good quality. low pricesand it is appropriate to hold food and drinks before. They refer to offers such as free children with an adult, free parking, fish and chips with a liquid garlic for £8.50.

Morrison says 344 in cafes will remain open despite the plans to close the planned, but according to Rami Baythi, CEO Rami Baythi, “a minority has a special domestic challenge and in those places, unfortunately, closing and re-establishment of space is the only rational option.

In other parts of the country, 32-year-old Ben Hopkins feels that local Morrison cafes in Meltam, Westerkshair, is crowded every time it goes, because “the food is dedicated to what you get in a spoonful of traditional fat.

It can be useful for parents. Lisa Klavering, a St. Albans, says she relied on Asda cafes and Morrison relied on “cross and cheap food” when her two sons were younger.

“With they grew up, it was a place where we could go together and share a meal with us without pressure to cook and clean it.

Lisa says part of a supermarket cafe is that they feel accessories and “a hot place and reception that has no congestion and no surprise.

“I’m worried that when they leave, there’s no similarity to replace them, and other alternatives are more expensive,” Lisa said.

But others question the need for market cafes, indicate a change in people’s shopping habits and Competition in the brown chain of high street.

Natalie Berg, an analyst to sell individual sales to the BBC, said the closure of Morrisons’ cafes “murit should be amazing,” Natalie Berg told the BBC. “These groceries are trying to walk in despair, at the same time at the same time. Competition with discounts such as Aldi and Lidlel” He says.

“This is a low marginal industry, so markets need complete ruthlessness when it comes to cutting costs.

When customers enter big supermarkets, Ms. Berg says, “They want low prices and a self-destruction experience.

To a large extent, it is a resonance of the argument that Science has given to close itself – that “most of (y) the most loyal customers do not use cafes regularly.

Ben Tenka, 19, a student who lives near the Morrison store in Queensberry, says he usually meets his friends in fast foods such as Nando, KFC and McDonaldish.

He hasn’t just gone in a Morrisonz cafe. “In general, you only see the elderly eat there,” he said.

And returning to the Queensberry store, Sanhal Khomani does not think people are very interested in closing the cafes of supermarkets and say there was no “anger”.

“If you were a popular, you would have heard it,” he says, as Perte Anggar changed his service service.

In addition, rival markets Tesco, Marx and Spencer – each with more than 300 cafes – have not said anything about the closure of their cafes.

M&S tells the BBC that it continues to invest in cafes and plans to eat cafes in most of its large stores. Last year, he announced he would try to offer more food and drink to attract young customers.

In a M&S café in central London, Matthew Wilshir, a newly won a Capouccino to go.

For the 62-year-old, the numbers are not lying. The coffee was £3 For him, he says, “It’s cheaper than a prith or a Starbax.

Excessive report by Charlotte Edwards and Faaria Massoud.