The favourite grocer of the middle classes, Waitrose, is shutting seven more shops with the discounter Lidl swooping on three in renewed signs of the rapidly changing retail market.
Waitrose began as a small grocery shop in Acton, north London, 115 years ago. It has 334 shops, employs 52,590 people and merged with John Lewis in 1937.
The favourite grocer of the middle classes, Waitrose, is shutting seven more shops with the discounter Lidl swooping on three in renewed signs of the rapidly changing retail market.
Waitrose began as a small grocery shop in Acton, north London, 115 years ago. It has 334 shops, employs 52,590 people and merged with John Lewis in 1937.
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