The UK's economic disaster is beginning to filter through to front line news

Morrisons is set to cut over 200 jobs from its retail people team, the Retail Gazette has reported this morning. It adds that this forms part of a significant cost-saving initiative, becoming the latest supermarket to announce such measures as it navigates the challenging economic landscape of 2025.

The move follows CEO Rami Baitiéh’s comments last month about the “avalanche of costs” businesses will face after the government’s October Budget.

The impacted roles, which include positions in customer experience, employee engagement, recruitment, and payroll, are part of the supermarket’s restructuring efforts, The Grocer reported.

A spokesperson for the supermarket told the title: “We have recently carried out a review of our people structure to ensure we are offering our stores and sites a timely and consistent service.

“We are therefore proposing to remove the roles of regional people manager, store people manager and case specialist from our structure, meaning colleagues in these roles are being placed at risk of redundancy.”

“The new structure will consist of a number of new central roles to support our supermarkets directly along with central HR support and additional employee relations roles. Before any final decisions are taken, we will undertake a minimum 45-day consultation process.”

It comes as Sainsbury’s revealed on Thursday that it would be axing 3,000 roles and closing the remainder of its in-store cafés as part of CEO Simon Robert’s £1bn cost saving plans.

Analysts have predicted that further job cuts could be on the horizon as supermarkets look to address mounting economic challenges and concerns about rising food price inflation.

Non-analysts, including this reporter, believe that these snippets of negative financial news represent the merest tip of the economics disaster iceberg that is about to crash into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In layman's terms, this country is well and truly stuffed. And has been for quite some time. It is only now beginning to feed through into front line news and discussion and the process will accelerate over the next few weeks.