Sainsbury’s people boss defends café closures

Sainsbury’s chief people officer Prerana Issar has defended the supermarket’s decision to close its cafes, saying it “just didn’t make sense” to keep them.
At the end of January the grocery giant said it was closing its remaining cafés, hot food counters, patisserie, and pizza counters, resulting in in 3,000 job losses.
Issar, who is also the grocer’s head of corporate affairs, said at the 2025 Retail Technology Show that “customers who are going