HUNDREDS of Wilko stores could be shutting their doors as the retailer is on the brink of collapsing.
The high street has been hit hard in recent years due to the growth of online shopping, especially during the cost of living crisis.
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Wilko has filed for a notice of intent to appoint administrators.
The discount chain has 400 shops and employs about 12,000 people.
If Wilko does file for administration this means all control of the business is passed to an appointed administrator – who has to be a licensed insolvency practitioner.
Find out if which Wilko stores could be at risk of closing…
Which Wilko stores could be at risk of closing?
Here is the full list of towns and cities with Wilko shops in the UK:
- Aberdare
- Abergavenny
- Accrington
- Acocks Green
- Acton
- Aldershot
- Alfreton
- Alnwick
- Altrincham
- Ammanford
- Andover
- Arnold
- Ashford
- Ashington
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Aylesbury
- Ayr
- Banbury
- Barking
- Barnsley (3 stores)
- Barnstaple
- Barrow In Furness
- Barry
- Basildon
- Basingstoke
- Bedford (2)
- Bedminster
- Belper
- Beverley
- Bexleyheath
- Bicester
- Biggleswade
- Birkenhead
- Birmingham (3)
- Bishop Auckland
- Bishops Stortford
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Blackwood
- Bletchley
- Blyth
- Bognor Regis
- Bolton (2)
- Bordon
- Boston
- Bournemouth (2)
- Bradford
- Brentwood
- Bridgend
- Bridgwater
- Brigg
- Brighouse
- Bristol (3)
- Bromley
- Brownhills
- Burgess Hill
- Burnley
- Burton Upon Trent
- Bury
- Bury St Edmunds
- Camberley
- Cambridge
- Canterbury
- Cardiff (3)
- Carlisle
- Carmarthen
- Castle Douglas
- Chatham
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Chepstow
- Chester
- Chester Le Street
- Chesterfield
- Chippenham
- Clacton On Sea
- Cleethorpes
- Cleveleys
- Clowne
- Clydebank
- Coalville
- Cockermouth
- Colchester
- Corby
- Coventry (2)
- Cowley
- Cramlington
- Crawley
- Crewe
- Cwmbran
- Dagenham
- Darlington
- Dartford
- Denton
- Derby (3)
- Dereham
- Devizes
- Dewsbury
- Didcot
- Doncaster (2)
- Driffield
- Droitwich
- Dudley
- Dunstable
- Durham
- East Ham
- Eastbourne (2)
- Eccles
- Edinburgh
- Ellesmere Port
- Ely
- Epsom
- Exeter
- Falkirk
- Falmouth
- Fareham
- Farnborough
- Ferndown
- Folkestone
- Gainsborough
- Gateshead (2)
- Gillingham
- Gloucester
- Gravesend
- Grays (2)
- Great Malvern
- Great Yarmouth (2)
- Greenock
- Greenwich
- Grimsby (2)
- Halesowen
- Halifax
- Hamilton
- Hanley
- Harlow
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havant
- Haverfordwest
- Hayes
- Hemel Hempstead
- Hereford
- High Wycombe
- Hinckley
- Hitchin
- Holyhead
- Horsham
- Hounslow
- Hucknall
- Huddersfield
- Hull (2)
- Huntingdon
- Huyton
- Ilford
- Ilkeston
- Ipswich
- Irvine
- Jarrow
- Kenilworth
- Kent (2)
- Kettering
- Kidderminster
- Kings Lynn
- Kingston Upon Thames
- Kingston Upon Hull
- Kingswood
- Knowle
- Lancaster
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds (7)
- Leek
- Leicester (5)
- Leigh
- Leighton Buzzard
- Letchworth
- Lewisham
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- Liverpool (3)
- Livingston
- Llandudno
- Llanelli
- London (9)
- Long Eaton
- Loughborough
- Louth
- Lowestoft
- Luton
- Maidenhead
- Maidstone
- Manchester (4)
- Mansfield
- Market Drayton
- Market Harborough
- Matlock
- Melton Mowbray
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Middlesbrough
- Middlesex
- Mildenhall
- Milton Keynes
- Morriston
- Motherwell
- Neath
- Nelson
- Newark
- Newbury
- Newcastle
- Newcastle Under Lyme
- Newcastle Upon Tyne (3)
- Newport
- Newton Abbot
- Newton Aycliffe
- Newton-Le-Willows
- North Shields
- Northallerton
- Northampton (3)
- Northfield
- Norwich
- Nottingham (9)
- Nuneaton
- Oakham
- Orpington
- Oswestry
- Pembroke Dock
- Penge
- Perry Barr
- Peterborough (2)
- Peterlee
- Plymouth
- Pontefract
- Pontypool
- Poole
- Port Talbot
- Porthmadog
- Portsmouth
- Preston (2)
- Pwllheli
- Rainham
- Ramsgate
- Reading
- Redcar
- Redditch
- Redhill
- Redruth
- Retford
- Rhyl
- Ripley
- Romford
- Rotherham
- Rowley Regis
- Royal Kingston Upon Thames
- Rugby
- Rugeley
- Runcorn
- Rushden
- Sale
- Salford
- Scarborough
- Scunthorpe
- Seaham
- Selby
- Sheffield (6)
- Shipley
- Shirley
- Shrewsbury
- Sittingbourne
- Skegness
- Skelmersdale
- Slough
- Solihull
- South Shields
- Southampton
- Southend On Sea
- Southport
- Spalding
- St Albans
- St Austell
- St Helens
- Stafford
- Stamford
- Stevenage
- Stockport
- Stockton On Tees
- Stoke-On-Trent
- Stourbridge
- Stratford
- Strood
- Stroud
- Sunderland
- Sutton
- Sutton-In-Ashfield
- Swanley
- Swansea
- Swindon (2)
- Tamworth (2)
- Taunton
- Telford (2)
- Thetford
- Tipton
- Torquay
- Trowbridge
- Truro
- Uttoxeter
- Uxbridge
- Wakefield (2)
- Wallasey
- Walsall (2)
- Walthamstow
- Walton On Thames
- Warrington
- Washington
- Waterlooville
- Watford
- Wellingborough
- Wembley
- West Drayton
- West Ealing
- Weston-Super-Mare
- Weymouth
- Whitehaven
- Widnes
- Wigan
- Wimbledon
- Winsford
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Wood Green
- Woolwich
- Worcester
- Workington
- Worksop (2)
- Worthing
- Wrexham
- Wythenshawe
- Yeovil
- York
It isn’t 100% certain that Wilko will need to pull the plug on any of its shops across the country.
All sites will continue to operate as normal for now, and even if administrators are brought in, the stores could still keep going if the company is bought by someone else.
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What other retailers are closing?
It’s not just shops either, food and pub chains have also been hit, resulting in brands like Wetherspoons and Frankie & Benny’s closing.
Following the pandemic businesses were struggling to bounce back anyway, only to then be hit by soaring energy bills.
On Saturday August 5, Clarks shoes shut the doors on its store in Fareham for food.
Before that Clarks closed a store in Dundee on July 25.
Although, some chains have managed to defy high street troubles and are actually set to open new shops.
These include discount chains like Poundland which is set to open 15 shops in the coming weeks and Greggs which is aiming to open 150 new sites this year.
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