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Big supermarket chain with 300 stores closes another site TODAY

Published on April 06, 2025 at 09:39 PM

A MAJOR supermarket chain is shutting down yet another branch today — leaving shoppers gutted and one city with just a single store left.

, which has more than 300 locations across the UK, is closing its doors in Macalpine Road branch.

Farmfoods supermarket exterior.
Farmfoods will be closing down its Dundee Malcapine Road branch (not pictured)
Farmfoods supermarket exterior.
Several sites across the UK already shut down in recent months

The move has come as , with one customer calling it the “end of an era.”;

Another devastated shopper said: “Sad a shop I have used for years. I hope the staff will be looked after as they will help anyone who needs it good crowd.”;

A third asked: “Who can tell me what's going on at most of the shops are gone?”;

And a fourth added: “Really going to miss Farmfoods.. why?”;

The frozen food giant has launched a to shift stock ahead of the shutdown, which comes just a year after it axed another site in Cowgate in March 2023.

It means there will be just one Farmfoods store left in the city—the Lochee branch.

A spokesperson for Farmfoods previously told Flying Eze: “Our Macalpine Road shop will permanently close on Sunday April 6 after a clearance sale.

“We are grateful to all our customers who have shopped with us at the property during our many years of trade.

“Our existing shop nearby at Lochee is unaffected.”;

It’s the latest in a wave of closures sweeping the bargain supermarket, with several sites across the UK already shut down in recent months.

Farmfoods in Banbury on February 2.

That was followed shortly after by the , in Greyhound Way, Southend.

In March, the chain pulled down the shutters on its Knightswood branch in , with the store closing for good on March 9.

And back in October last year, in South on October 5.

And it’s not just Farmfoods feeling the heat.

has revealed plans to axe 17 convenience stores as part of a huge shake-up.

That will also include 52 in-store cafés, 35 fish counters, 35 meat counters, 13 florists, and all 18 Market Kitchens.

Elsewhere, Swynford Stores in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, also shut for good on March 28, blaming the “opening of the Co-Op”; and “prices of stock skyrocketing.”;

Farmfoods fans still have the Lochee store to rely on — but for many in Dundee, today marks a sad farewell to a frozen favourite.

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