M&S closes 11 cafes before Christmas but opens six stores

Marks and Spencer is to close 11 of its in-stores cafes around the UK, and has conformed it will open one more store before Christmas.

M&S said that shutting the cafes is to create space for more popular products and no jobs will be cut as a result. The closures will affect fewer than 4% of the group’s 316 food shops.

An M&S spokesperson said: “As we look to modernise our food business and offer the best of M&S Food to more people, more often, we’re investing in our store estate to give our customers the widest possible product range.

“This includes opening brand-new coffee shops offering delicious food and barista-made fairtrade coffee, including at our brand-new Bristol Cabot Circus store.

“In some of our small Food stores, where customers want a greater range of M&S Food, our transf