Full list of Wilko stores closing TODAY: When is your local store shutting?
- Everything you need to know about which Wilko stores are closing down
The first 24 Wilko stores will close today, with a further 124 shutting in the next week, following the dramatic collapse of the trouble high street chain.
All stores are set to close by October with around 12,500 staff likely to lose their jobs.
Which stores are closing today, Tuesday September 12 2023? When is your local store shutting?
Read on below for everything you need to know about Wilko’s store closures.
A Wilko store in Cardiff is pictured on Sunday with closing down signs posted on the windows
Which Wilko stores are closing today?
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The initial round of Wilko store closures includes stores in Liverpool, Cardiff, Acton and Falmouth and comes after a last-ditch rescue deal to save the store collapsed on Monday September 11 2023.
All Wilko stores have been earmarked for closure by October 2023, resulting in an expected 12,500 members of staff likely to lose their jobs.
Wilko – a family-owned business – fell into administration in August after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending, debts to suppliers and an increasingly competitive environment with similar stores such as Poundland and the Range.
The company employed around 12,500 staff and has already announced a £13 million deal to sell 51 shops to B&M, although the rival discounter has not agreed to take on Wilko workers as part of the deal.
The chain had been the focus of a last-ditch attempt by the owner of HMV Doug Putman to strike a rescue deal, however, administrators PwC said this failed.
The administration said that the closure dates for the remaining stores will be announced in due course.
In a statement yesterday, Zelf Hussain, joint administrator at PwC said: ‘Despite extensive efforts, it has become clear that no significant part of the Wilko operations can be rescued as a going concern,’ administrators PwC said in a statement.
‘We continue to work with potential buyers for different parts of the business and are confident of completing transactions in the coming days.’
When is my local Wilko store closing?
PwC announced that along with today’s closures, a further 28 stores will shut on Thursday September 14 2023.
The closure of 52 Wilko stores this week will result in 1,016 redundancies.
PwC announced that along with today’s closures, a further 28 stores will shut on Thursday September 14 2023. The closure of 52 Wilko stores this week will result in 1,016 redundancies. Pictured: Empty shelves in a Wilko store on Queen Street on September 10, 2023 in Cardiff, Wales
The store’s warehouse will close on Friday September 15 2023, with the final support centre workers leaving in October 2023 as operations unwind.
Administrators are still in talks over deals to sell store properties, but are shutting down sites after failing to find a suitor who would take them on as Wilko shops and retain their staff.
Although other companies are still in the running to take over some Wilko stores, the GMB Union said that the bids were only interested in the property and any deals would not include the workers.
Following the collapse of the rescue deal, the union said that any hopes of saving thousands of jobs had collapsed.
PwC had already agreed a roughly £13 million deal to sell up to 51 Wilko stores to rival B&M.
Which Wilko stores are closing?
Administrators for Wilko have revealed the locations of 52 stores which will close this week.
The following Wilko shops will close today (September 12):
- Acton, London
- Aldershot, Hampshire
- Barking, London
- Bishop Auckland, County Durham
- Bletchley, Milton Keynes
- Brownhills, Walsall
- Camberley, Surrey
- Cardiff Bay Retail Park
- Falmouth, Cornwall
- Harpurhey, Manchester
- Irvine, North Ayrshire
- Liverpool Edge Lane
- Llandudno, Wales
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Morley, Leeds
- Nelson, Lancashire
- Port Talbot, Wales
- Putney, London
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Wakefield, 121 Kirkgate
- Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
- Westwood Cross Retail Park, Kent
- Winsford, Cheshire
The following Wilko shops will close on Thursday September 14:
- Ashford, Kent
- Avonmeads, Bristol
- Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
- Basildon, Essex
- Belle Vale, Liverpool
- Burnley, Lancashire
- Clydebank, Glasgow
- Cortonwood, Barnsley
- Dagenham, Essex
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
- Eccles, Greater Manchester
- Folkestone, Kent
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Hammersmith, London
- Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
- Morriston, Swansea
- New Malden, South-west London
- North Shields, Tyne and Wear
- Queen Street, Cardiff
- Rhyl, Wales
- Southampton West Quay
- St Austell, Cornwall
- Stockport, Greater Manchester
- Truro, Cornwall
- Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
- Walsall
- Woking, Surrey
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