{"id":92127,"date":"2025-05-11T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92127\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:12:08","slug":"alcampo-to-close-25-supermarkets-to-ensure-long-term-future-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92127\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcampo to close 25 supermarkets to ensure long-term future in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE French-owned Alcampo supermarket and hypermarket chain is shutting 25 stores in Spain after seeing a slight fall in sales last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company said that a maximum of 710 employees would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The closures will revolve around its supermarkets and are likely to include some bought in 2023 from Dia when Alcampo acquired 235 outlets- some of which were unprofitable or in \u2018poor\u2019 locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138009 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Alcampo-supermarket-490x276.jpg\"  data-\/><strong>SMALLER OUTLET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alcampo described the decision as part of a process to ensure its long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, it said: \u201cOn this path of transformation, it is essential to recover the results and ensure sustainable growth in each and every one of the stores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why Alcampo is implementing a workforce adjustment plan, a decision that, although difficult, is responsible and necessary,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>It has not said which 25 locations have been ear-marked for closure but referred to changes at 125 establishments with size reductions for stores- including hypermarkets- as well as staff \u2018adjustments\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The CCOO trade union has released a list where changes to hypermarkets will take place- namely in Madrid, Castellon, Albacete, Sanlucar, Jerez and Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p>Supermarkets set for change or closure are in Madrid, La Rioja, Cantabria, Navarra, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Galicia, Aragon, Asturias and the Basque Country.<\/p>\n<p>Alcampo said it is carrying out renovation and modernisation\u00a0of more than 60 stores, as well strengthening its online sales business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE French-owned Alcampo supermarket and hypermarket chain is shutting 25 stores in Spain after seeing a slight fall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[43614,51,43615,2000,299,603,18104,8626,363,104,18106],"class_list":{"0":"post-92127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-alcampo-supermarket-closures","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dia-supermarket-store-purchases","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-national-news","14":"tag-news-spain","15":"tag-newspaper","16":"tag-retail","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-the-olive-press"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114487960967752186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}