High-end supermarket dubbed ‘Waitrose of the North’ with 27 stores set to close city centre branch after 16 years

A HIGH-END supermarket chain is set to close it branch in a city centre after 16 years.

The upmarket grocer Booths, dubbed the “Waitrose of the North”, will close its store in Ripon.

GoogleBooths in Ripon, which is set to close after 16 years[/caption]

It comes as the store struggled to generate a profit in the Yorkshire cathedral city, the BBC has reported.

The lease of the Marshall Way branch is likely to be taken over by Tesco, it is understood.

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