A TOWN supermarket will close at the weekend for three days while it is converted into a new store.

Safeway, in Ferryhill, will be one of the first in the country to be altered into a Somerfield store following the company's takeover of 114 Safeway stores from Morrisons.

The store will shut on Saturday, at 3pm, reopening to customers on Wednesday, November 10, at 9am.