An announcement made by retail favourite John Lewis is another blow for those employed by UK high street stores.
The large department store and its sister business Waitrose supermarkets said they plan to cut around 1,000 more jobs in stores, this time in management roles.
This year our high streets have seen the loss of several shop fronts like Topshop, Debenhmas, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Burton.
John Lewis said the crisis of the pandemic has been "one of the most challenging in the Partnership's history" with many stores suffering losses throughout lockdown.
The company said the shake-up will take place as part of a simplification of store management.
The employee-owned group said a plan to simplify management structures would lead to the roles becoming redundant and with 34 John Lewis stores and 331 Waitrose supermarkets in total, the cuts would average 2.7 management roles per store.
It comes after a raft of recent job cuts, which included the closure of eight John Lewis stores earlier this year, in a bid to secure £300 million in savings by 2023.
A John Lewis Partnership spokesperson said: “We have announced to our partners our intention to simplify our management structures in Waitrose and John Lewis stores, which will allow us to reinvest in what matters most to our customers.”
They added they they would try to find new roles for affected employees, or partners as it calls them, who wanted to stay in the business and also try to minimise compulsory redundancies.
In March, the partnership said the "economic earthquake" of the pandemic had sent it to a 517 million pound ($718 million) annual loss.
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