BOURNEMOUTH’s only town centre supermarket Lidl is to close its doors for good TODAY.
The budget German retailer will close its doors one last time on Friday, October 7 at 6pm as the town bids farewell to its only supermarket.
Staff will be cooking a big batch of goodies for the popular bakery for customers to enjoy one final time.
Yesterday afternoon, a handful of shelves looked decidedly empty – but most still had enough stock on you wouldn’t imagine it would be closing.
There is still plenty of fresh food on the shelves and the store will be receiving a delivery in the morning.
Unsold stock will be taken to surrounding Lidl stores.
Read more: Why are Lidl closing their Bournemouth town centre store?
Staff were notified in August during a meeting about the shop’s closure. There have been no redundancies as all staff will be transferred to another Lidl store.
Bosses of the budget supermarket stated they had struggled to come to “more agreeable” lease terms with the landlord of Richmond Gardens Shopping Centre.
Lidl also said turnover was not recovering to pre-pandemic levels and neighbouring Wilko’s closure earlier in the year contributed to the decision to close the store.
The closure marks the end of the town centre’s only supermarket, with only a Tesco convenience store remaining in The Square.
Despite the closure, a Lidl spokesperson said Bournemouth town centre remained on its desired site requirements list.
Lidl has additional stores in Wimborne Road in Winton, Poole Road in Branksome, Christchurch Road in Boscombe and Holdenhurst Road.
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