An Ipswich McColl's store and Post Office has been earmarked for closure as part of a restructuring plan. 

The Stoke Park Drive store is one of the 132 stores nationwide that bosses have announced is at risk of closure. 

The plans will leave 1,300 McColl's workers at risk of redundancy. It is not clear how many of these work at the Ipswich store.

The closures will not take place until next year to allow the local community to use the Post Office during the festive period. 

The market chain confirmed it would purchase the McColl's store chain earlier this year as part of a £190million deal.

Joseph Sutton, Morrisons Convenience, Online and Wholesale Director, said: “We have a great deal of work to do but there’s no question that McColl’s is a business with strong potential.

"I’m confident that the combination of McColl’s conveniently located stores and great colleagues together with Morrisons scale, brand, systems and fresh food expertise will lead to a transformation of the business.

“We very much regret the proposed closure of 132 loss-making stores but it is, very sadly, an important step towards the regeneration of the business.

"I am confident that McColl’s can, in the Morrisons family, once again become a growing, thriving and vibrant convenience business serving local communities across the UK.

“We are pleased to be able to offer every colleague alternative employment within the Morrisons group, but we fully recognise that this might not be a practical solution for all colleagues.”

The nearest McColl's in Ipswich will be the Tower Rampart's store, which is two-and-a-half miles away.

David Potts, Morrisons chief executive, said: “Today marks an important moment for the McColl’s business, colleagues and customers as we formally welcome the business and its colleagues into the Morrisons family.

"We are now able to begin the urgent journey to transform McColl’s into a viable, well-invested and growing operation.

Ipswich Star: Morrisons Chief executive David Potts.Morrisons Chief executive David Potts. (Image: PA)

“Over the last three years we have seen the significant enhancements that the conversion of a McColl’s store to a Morrisons Daily can achieve, and so I am very pleased that we will now have over 1,000 Morrisons Daily stores trading within two years.

"I’m confident that the McColl’s conversions, combined with the increased competitiveness that will be unlocked through investment and synergies, will make Morrisons a growing force in the important convenience market in the years to come.”

Bosses have said that there are no further store closures currently being considered but they remain in discussion with a number of landlords of challenged stores.