AN update has been issued over the future of the Tesco Superstore in Cirencester. 

The giant supermarket brand has told the Standard that the much-loved Farrell Close store will close its doors for a final time on Wednesday, April 26. 

Meanwhile, a smaller new Tesco Express shop in Cricklade Street is scheduled to open the following day in the former Dorothy Perkins and Burton store.

It comes after the retailer announced last year that the closure of its town centre store had been ‘postponed’. 

A Tesco spokesperson previously said their new Express store would 'better serve the needs of customers' in the town centre.

The spokesperson said: “We have taken the difficult decision to close our Cirencester Superstore and have done so after concluding that a new Express format store would better serve the needs of customers in Cirencester town centre.

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"We realise this will be unsettling for our colleagues and we will work hard to find alternative roles in our nearby stores.”

Previously, Cirencester mayor Sabrina Dixon said the town council would be holding a public consultation to ask the public for their ideas for the Farrell Close Tesco site. 

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Readers have also provided suggestions for what Tesco should be replaced with, such as a cinema, affordable housing, an Iceland, a B&M, a Wetherspoons, or a Primark.