Cooplands, in Horsemarket, closed its doors for the final time on Saturday (January 20). A notice had appeared in the window of the bakery informing customers that the store would be shutting at the weekend. It came less than three years after the bakery and sandwich shop opened in 2015.
Cllr Rima Chatterjee and landlady of The Old Well Inn said it was a worrying sign.
She said: “I really feel badly about it. It is worrying.
“It is another business that is closing on our high street. It is really unfortunate but I am sure, from their point of view, that it makes business sense.
“It is sad that jobs have gone. Cooplands is a chain so they will be fine but it is the staff who we need to worry about. I just hope that they all manage to find something else. It is a lovely high street and we get so many people coming here so it would need to be filled again.”
Details on how many staff have been affected are unavailable after Cooplands declined to comment on the matter, The company, which has a chain of more than 140 shops in Yorkshire, County Durham and Lincolnshire, also declined to give the reasons for the closure.
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