General Stores closes Salford branch as company ‘restructures’

The Store Group, the people behind the General Store brand, has closed its branch in Salford, in a restructuring of its business. As of today, the Salford General Store, on New Bailey Street, is now shuttered.

“After exceptionally difficult trading conditions throughout the past two years, the addition of the latest economic pressures in 2022, including the energy crisis, have led us to implement a major restructure of the business in order to protect jobs and to continue to trade,” owner of the Store Group Mital Morar said in a statement to the Manchester Evening News.

“As part of this process we have closed one of our stores.” The company added that its other sites remain open, including the General Stores in Ancoats, Castlefield, Deansgate Square, Media City and Moss Side.

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“We have been working hard throughout what has been a very difficult period for the business to ensure that all of our other sites remain open and we are grateful that none of our hard working colleagues have been affected,” they went on.

“We will continue to adapt in an ever changing economic landscape and our main priorities will always be to serve our customers and to support our colleagues.”

The first General Store opened in Ancoats in 2017, catering for the expanding number of residents moving into the old mills and warehouses. As well as the usual groceries, it also featured a bar, a post office and revolving food operators, including the likes of sandwich makers Bada Bing.

It quickly expanded its business to encompass food halls too, opening branches in Stretford Mall and then another more recently in Sale’s Stanley Square development. Both feature a General Store inside, as well as a