{"id":11246,"date":"2024-12-03T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11246"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:01:01","slug":"446-utility-stores-shut-nationwide-closure-of-500-more-under-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11246","title":{"rendered":"446 Utility Stores Shut Nationwide, Closure of 500 More Under Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>446 Utility Stores Shut Down Nationwide After Subsidy Withdrawal by Federal Government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the federal government&#8217;s suspension of subsidies for utility stores, 446 utility stores across the country have been closed to reduce expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Sources within the Utility Stores Corporation revealed that a plan to shut down over 500 more utility stores is also under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the closures, sources claim that no employees will be laid off. Only those utility stores with low revenue and higher losses have been targeted for closure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, most of the affected stores are located in rural areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the federal government ended subsidies for utility stores in August this year, limiting support to five essential items, including sugar, flour, and ghee.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the total number of utility stores across the country is 3,982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>446 Utility Stores Shut Down Nationwide After Subsidy Withdrawal by Federal Government. Following the federal government&#8217;s suspension of subsidies for utility stores, 446 utility stores across the country have been closed to reduce expenses. Sources within the Utility Stores Corporation revealed that a plan to shut down over 500 more utility stores is also under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,47,46],"tags":[3161,335,2345,4306,3214],"class_list":["post-11246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-closure","tag-federal-government","tag-nationwide","tag-shut","tag-utility-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}