Sainsbury’s to close all stores on Boxing Day

It will shut all comfort stores, petrol stations and supermarkets on Boxing Working day, giving all over 170,000 personnel the working day off.

All Argos and Habitat merchants, which are owned by Sainsbury’s, will also stay shut. The move is to thank personnel for their initiatives all through the very last 18 months of functioning throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

M&S also introduced options to close all retailers, its Castle Donington distribution centre and all aid centres and on Boxing day. Supermarket Morrisons will also close on Boxing Working day.

Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts mentioned: “Christmas is a seriously distinctive time for so many, but mainly because of lockdown constraints past year, heaps of us weren’t equipped to celebrate in the way we preferred. In recognition of this and to say a substantial thank you to all our colleagues for every thing they have completed through the past hard 12 months, we will be closing all of our supermarkets, convenience outlets and petrol filling stations, as properly as Argos and Habitat suppliers, this Boxing Working day. I want to thank our buyers in advance for their knowing, which will necessarily mean as quite a few of our crew as possible can have a properly-deserved split to commit time with loved ones.”