Sainsbury’s is to cut 3,000 jobs.

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J Sainsbury’s is cutting 3,000 jobs as the UK’s second-biggest supermarket chain looks to cut costs and streamline its business.

The redundancies of 2 per cent of the group’s workforce will result in the closure of the in-store cafe and significant changes in management.

About 20 percent of senior management roles are expected to be eliminated, Sainsbury’s said on Thursday.

The decision comes after the company said last year that it would cut costs by £1 billion over the next three years.

The reorganization comes amid what chief executive Simon Roberts called a “particularly challenging cost environment” as retailers battle rising costs and taxes.

The grocery chain said it was revamping the structure of its central management teams to “support faster decision-making and support execution” with teams at both Sainsbury’s and Argos.

This will result in fewer head office roles with clear accountability, the company said, adding that the changes will take effect in the coming months.

The business “had to make tough choices about where we could invest and where we needed to do things differently to make our business more efficient and effective,” Roberts said.