Sainsbury's confirms it is closing its Stockport supermarket

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hereA spokesperson added that the firm was doing 'everything it can' to redeploy staff members elsewhere.An online petition has been launched, calling on the brand to rethink its decision and keep the supermarket open.The petition reads: "Workers at Stockport's town centre Sainsbury's store are facing redundancy at the turn of the New Year 2021 because of Sainsbury PLC's decision to close the store."The workers at this store were amongst those key workers who risked their health and their lives during the Covid-19 pandemic by working throughout in order to ensure that all of us continued to be able to obtain our food and other essential supplies."The petition says the decision is 'a slap in the face' for workers 'when they should instead be.