Greggs to cut more than 800 jobs as coronavirus lockdown hits business
Greggs has announced plans to cut more than 800 jobs as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The boss warned that the bakery chain "will not be profitable as a business" if sales continue at the rates they have been in lockdown. In a statement posted on its employee information website earlier this week, chief executive Roger Whiteside said: "COVID trading conditions have forced this action onto our business and we are all very saddened by the need to part company with around 820 friends and colleagues, many of whom have worked with us for many years."He went on to say that "the battle with COVID hasn't gone away and is intensifying further" as lockdown measures continue to be in place across the UK. Mr Whiteside added: "At lockdown levels of sales, even after all of the mitigating...
