Full list of shops closing in February including Farmfoods, Iceland and Hollister

The British precocious thoroughfare has suffered implicit the past fewer years. Reduced footfall and higher costs person forced galore retailers to tighten their belts and adjacent immoderate of their brick-and-mortar sites

A fig of chains are closing stores implicit the adjacent month(Image: WalesOnline/Rob Browne)

A fistful of high street retailers are acceptable to beryllium closing stores implicit the period of February.

The British precocious thoroughfare has suffered implicit the past fewer years. Reduced footfall and higher costs person forced galore retailers to tighten their belts and adjacent immoderate of their brick-and-mortar sites. However, it is ever important to enactment that immoderate retailers adjacent sites for different concern reasons and not due to the fact that they are struggling financially.

The Centre for Retail Research predicts 17,349 shops volition adjacent this year, marking a crisp summation from the 13,479 closures recorded successful 2024. This is down to the higher National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and increases successful the nationalist minimum wage take effect successful April. Here we person listed each of the retailers with sites pulling down shutters implicit the coming fewer weeks.

Sainsbury's

The supermarket concatenation volition beryllium closing its subdivision connected Stamford Hill successful London - which archetypal opened 14 years agone - connected February 1. The crushed down the closure is owed to the landlord's program to redevelop the tract aft the lease expires. A spokesperson for Sainsbury’s said: "Earlier this year, we shared the hard quality with colleagues astatine our Stamford Hill supermarket that the landlord intends to redevelop the site. The store volition stay unfastened and our colleagues volition proceed to service the section assemblage arsenic accustomed betwixt present and February 1, erstwhile our lease expires."

Iceland

The frozen nutrient retailer volition beryllium shutting its London subdivision successful Welling this Saturday, February 1. The crushed down the closure of the tract connected 53 Bellegrove Road has not been disclosed by the supermarket. Since its announcement, Iceland says its colleagues person been offered jobs successful different stores.

On the closure, an Iceland spokesperson said: “We tin corroborate our Welling Iceland store is scheduled to adjacent connected 1st February. Our store colleagues person entered into a consultation process and person been offered opportunities astatine surrounding stores wherever possible.”

WHSmith

WHSmith volition beryllium closing 4 high-street shops successful February arsenic portion of its company-wide strategy to displacement absorption towards question hubs. Overall, the stationary concatenation plans to merchantability 500 of its precocious thoroughfare stores, which puts astir 5,000 jobs astatine risk.

One WH Smith Store successful Basingstoke, Hampshire, volition beryllium pulling down the shutters for bully astatine midday connected Saturday, February 1, portion 3 much successful Winton, Rhyl, and Bolton volition beryllium shutting connected February 15. Here is the afloat database of WH Smith stores closing this month:

• Basingstoke, Hampshire - February 1
• Winton, Bournemouth - February 15
• Rhyl, Denbighshire - February 15
• Bolton, Greater Manchester - February 15

Hollister

The fashionable US covering marque has announced that its subdivision connected Union Square, Aberdeen, volition adjacent for bully successful February. The institution has yet to corroborate an nonstop day for the closure, though it is acceptable to beryllium towards the extremity of the month. Hollister - a manner marque owned by Abercrombie & Fitch - opened the Scottish store successful 2010. The retailer has indicated that it is looking to support a beingness successful Aberdeen.

A connection provided to the Press and Journal, from Abercrombie & Fitch said: “We tin corroborate we volition beryllium closing our Union Square Hollister store astatine the extremity of February. We judge stores substance and we are exploring caller store opportunities successful the UK, including successful Aberdeen, to supply a large buying acquisition for our customers. ”

The Entertainer

The Entertainer confirmed earlier this period that its store successful the Whitgift Centre successful Corydon, London volition beryllium closing its doors for bully connected Saturday, February 1. The closure is reportedly owed to the landlord's plans to repurpose the abstraction for the projected redevelopment of the Whitgift Shopping Centre arsenic portion of the Croydon regeneration project.

Paul Hardy, Head of Region astatine The Entertainer, said: “We are bittersweet to beryllium closing our Croydon store arsenic a request of the landlord for the projected redevelopment of the Whitgift Shopping Centre. We would similar to convey our customers and unit for their loyalty and support.

“We’re arrogant of the work we’ve offered and are committed to supporting our employees done this situation. Customers tin proceed to store our scope of large worth toys and games online arsenic good arsenic successful selected Tesco stores.”

Farmfoods

Farmfoods volition adjacent its store successful the Calthorpe Centre successful Banbury connected Sunday, February 2. The retailer has not confirmed the crushed down the closure of the Oxfordshire site, though the concatenation is looking to unfastened a caller tract successful the country but has not confirmed immoderate plans arsenic of writing.

A spokesperson for Farmfoods confirmed the closure successful a statement: “I corroborate our store astatine the Calthorpe Centre, Banbury volition permanently adjacent connected February 2 pursuing a 50% sale. We're grateful to each customers who person shopped with america during our clip trading from the spot and anticipation to unfastened a caller store elsewhere successful the municipality successful the future, but details are not confirmed astatine this stage.”