Full list of the Doncaster Greggs shops that are reopening

Greggs on Baxtergate in the town centre and the store in Wheatley Centre Shopping Park will be open from June 18. Two of 800 stores reopening across the country.

Two stores on the M18’s Moto service station on Junction 5, Hatfield, and the one at the Carcroft services on the A1, Skellow, are also opening.

The company said it aims to welcome customers back to its remaining 1,000 sites across the country by early July.

Bosses have unveiled new-look stores with floor markings, protective clothes for staff and screens at counters among several measures to protect against coronavirus spreading.

Greggs had been allowed to stay open throughout the lockdown, offering takeaway, but bosses declined, saying it felt remaining open would compromise the safety of its employees.

Updating the stock market today, the company added it remains cautious and warned sales may fall.

It said: “We are not able to predict the impact of social distancing on our ability to trade or on customer demand.

“However, our capacity to operate will be restricted by size of shop and we must anticipate that sales may be lower than normal for some time.

“This will require us to maintain a proportion of our colleagues on furlough, either fully or partially, until sales levels begin returning to normal.

“In anticipation of lower sales, we have limited our initial product range to our best sellers.”

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