Full list of shops closing in September

At slightest 11 brands are acceptable to shutter immoderate of their shops and retailers proceed to discontinue the precocious street.

Almost 10,500 shops unopen successful 2023 starring to 119,000 jobs lost, according to the Centre for Retail Research.

And successful the archetypal six months of 2024, 1,846 shops and person closed and 23,982 person mislaid their jobs.

Which ones are acceptable to adjacent – oregon person already closed – this month?

Clarks

The footwear marque unopen 1 of their stores successful March, Cambridgeshire, connected september 4.

The marque operated crossed 1,400 stores internationally astatine their peak, but arsenic of July past twelvemonth they had conscionable 320. With much having unopen since.

Homebase

Up to 12 branches of Homebase are owed to adjacent this period pursuing a large transportation of sires to Sainsbury’s.

The supermarket has truthful acold taken implicit 10 Homebase stores.

Two further closures person besides been announced successful Northampton and Cambridge abstracted to the takeover deal.

Homebase presently runs 144 locations crossed the UK, but they person closed 106 stores since 2018.

Beales

Beales section store closed their Southport subdivision connected September 7 aft moving inn the gathering for 135 years.

They erstwhile operated 23 section stores aft its opening successful 1881 selling a scope of household items.

The institution fell into medication successful 2020 and was purchased by a caller proprietor successful 2021.

After the store shuts determination volition conscionable beryllium 1 near successful the UK based successful Poole.

WHSmith

The stationary concatenation unopen 2 of their branches implicit the past period successful Sale and Somerset.

It has unopen 8 stores since March 2023, including successful Manchester and Bicester, aft a 4% driblet successful sales.

But 1,400 stores are inactive operating crossed the UK, with the institution announcing plans to unfastened 110 caller shops this twelvemonth successful hospitals, stations and airports.

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut closed its Surrey Quays Leisure Park tract connected September 14 to marque mode for caller redevelopment plans successful the area.

The concatenation besides closed its store successful Dartford, Kent, past period – but 260 restaurants stay unfastened successful the UK.

In the 1980s the concatenation was opening an mean of 1 edifice each week, but mounting indebtedness is putting the edifice successful peril.

There was a 7% income slump past twelvemonth arsenic customers chopped backmost connected takeaways during the outgo of surviving crisis.

Blacks Outdoors

Blacks Outdoors volition unopen its Leicester subdivision connected september 21 leaving the concatenation with much than 70 stores.

The institution having expanded successful 1928, bought the Outdoor Group, which included Millets and Free Spirit successful November 1999 signifier £51 million.

In December 2011 the radical and entered a ‘pre-pack’ medication and was bought by caller proprietor JD Sports.

Bonmarché

Bonmarché is acceptable to adjacent a subdivision successful Arnold, Notthingham, adjacent week.

The retail portion landlord is believed to person raised the rent making it excessively costly for the concatenation to stay.

Locals were particuarly upset implicit its closure, with section MP Michael Payne commenting: ‘Bonmarché has been portion of our assemblage for galore years, offering an indispensable work to galore residents, including those with constricted mobility who find it hard to store elsewhere oregon similar not to store online.

‘The store has besides been a captious root of employment for galore dedicated unit members who person consistently contributed to the institution and section area.’

The institution fell into medication successful 2019, but has experienced a resurgence successful popularity astatine the extremity of 2023.

Frasers

Mike Ashley volition adjacent its Fraser’s subdivision successful Middlesborough successful September.

The retail Tycoon bought House of Fraser successful December 2020 and gave the store a caller name, Frasers.

The wider Frasers Group includes brands specified arsenic Sports Direct and Jack Wills.

In May, a erstwhile House of Fraser store closed its store successful carlisle successful May.

A Sports Direct subdivision successful Stroud, Gloucestershire, besides closed successful March.

Dockerills

Dockerills, a DIY store successful Church Street, Brighton, volition adjacent this period bringing thei 109 twelvemonth tally to an end.

It is the past subdivision of the household businesses that has been operating since 1915.

The concern said: ‘It is with a dense bosom that we denote the closure of our Dockerills precocious thoroughfare store at the extremity of September. 

‘The concern has been a part of the North Laine community for over 100 years and was established successful Regent House, Church Street in the mid-70s.’

the store reportedly began struggling arsenic determination was little footfall coming in.

Boots

The wellness and quality concatenation announced past twelvemonth it would adjacent 300 branches by the opening of October.

The closures are aimed to trim the chain’s portfolio from astir 2,200 to 1,900.

They confirmed the closures volition not pb to immoderate of their 52,000 squad members being made redundant.

Cineworld

Cineworld is readying to adjacent six sites successful the UK successful the archetypal signifier of its large restructuring plan.

Venues successful Glasgow, Bedford, Hinckley, Loughborough, Yate and Swindon are expected to adjacent down implicit the coming months.

Cineworld said: ‘We are implementing a restructuring program that volition supply our institution with a beardown level to instrumentality our concern to profitability, pull further concern from the group, and guarantee a sustainable semipermanent aboriginal for Cineworld successful the UK.’

If approved the program is expected to travel into impact astatine the extremity of the month.

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