Jobs in Teddington may be under threat as Marks and Spencer have today announced 7,000 employees will go.

The M&S Simply Food on the high street is incredibly popular with shoppers however nationwide the store is struggling.

The lack of sales in clothes and home-ware is thought to have affected the retailer badly.

In a statement, M&S said it was "too early to predict with precision where a new post-Covid sales mix will settle. We must now act to reflect this change".

But the retailer said operating during the pandemic had showed it could work "more flexibly and productively", with more staff multi-tasking and moving between food, clothing and home departments.

Many of the redundancies the store has to make will either be voluntary or early retirements.

At the height of lockdown in May, M&S boss Steve Rowe said customers might "never shop the same way again" after the coronavirus crisis.

"Whilst some customer habits will return to normal, others have changed forever," he said.

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And last month the retailer announced 950 store management and head office jobs were at risk because it needed to accelerate its restructuring.