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The break-up continues: Real will close seven more branches in the coming months
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The hypermarket chain Real plans to close seven more branches in the coming months.
The markets in Blankenburg and Neuss (Breslauer Straße) are to be closed completely, announced a company spokesman.
At five other stores in Brühl in Baden-Württemberg, in Dortmund-Aplerbeck, in Menden, in the north and in Witten, lengthy renovations are planned before they are handed over to other dealers.
This is also evident from a list for “location taxes” on the chain's website.
Here too, the staff must therefore be dismissed.
The "Lebensmittel Zeitung" had previously reported on it.
The Real branches in Schwedt an der Oder and Mutterstadt in the Palatinate are also due to be closed for major renovation work at the end of January.
But the closure plans had been known internally for a long time, said the spokesman.
Broken up by SCP
It is not the first time that branches have been closed after the takeover of Real by the Russian financial investor SCP.
SCP acquired the ailing chain from Metro in 2020 in order to break up and sell it on.
Of the approximately 270 stores, more than 40 have now been closed or are on the closure list.
Kaufland, Edeka and Globus have already secured a large number of branches, but the future of a number of locations is still unclear.
There is now apparently hope again for three branches in Espelkamp, Monschau and Wetzlar, which were already on the closure list.
Because they are no longer included on the current list.
The company spokesman said that interested parties could still be found here with whom negotiations are currently taking place.
hba / dpa