UP to 30 workers face an uncertain future after the new owners of a supermarket chain decided to close a distribution centre.
United Co-operative has confirmed it will be closing Quality Fare's Catterick warehouse after announcing a multi-million pound deal for the company last week.
The news comes only days after the Rochdale company said none of Quality Fare's 300 workers would lose their jobs.
One warehouse worker, who did not want to be named, said she and her family were devastated.
A spokesman for United Co-operative said: "We feel that we can supply the Quality Fare shops from our existing facilities.
"We are talking to the staff who work at the warehouse and we will make every effort to re-deploy them, if not at other Quality Fare sites, then within United Co-operative."
The spokesman said they would not know how many jobs would go until those discussions had ended, adding that all shopfloor workers will keep their jobs.
United Co-operative paid about £50m for Quality Fare's 19 stores in North Yorkshire, County Durham and North-umberland.
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