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SHOPPERS are gutted to accidental goodbye to a decades-old M&S store successful the centre of municipality today.
The longstanding M&S subdivision is shutting down for bully leaving customers devastated for their precocious street.
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The Crawley subdivision has sold its past Colin the Caterpillar barroom to Queensway residents contiguous arsenic the iconic store yet shuts up shop.
Graham Bennett, M&S determination manager, said: “After consulting with our colleagues pursuing our proposals earlier this year, our Queensway store volition adjacent connected Saturday, November 16.
“Individual conversations are continuing with our colleagues and wherever possible, we volition beryllium offering them alternate roles with M&S.
“Thank you to each our customers who person shopped astatine the store – we volition proceed to enactment hard serving you astatine our adjacent Acorn Park M&S Food.”
Luckily for Crawley shoppers the adjacent nearest M&S store isn't excessively acold distant astatine Acorn Park which is simply a retail parkland that besides sports Aldi and an Ocado.
The closure is owed to "changing buying patterns" according to the retail giant, but doesn't mean Crawley volition person 1 little M&S forever.
Mr Bennet said they are hoping to put successful a new, accessible M&S store successful the future, but for present the subdivision volition beryllium closed indefinitely.
Fans of the reliable marque person been speedy to instrumentality to societal media to explicit their dissapointment.
One fuming shopper wrote connected Facebook: "Very aggravated and upset astir this."
Another idiosyncratic added: "I consciousness atrocious for [shoppers] arsenic they emotion buying successful determination ... specified bittersweet times."
A 3rd lawsuit shared: "This is not going to beryllium bully for our town. [It was] the lone decent store we had."
While a 4th shopper raged: "Awful determination to adjacent M&S."
Even Crawley Borough's Council person Michael Jones described the closure arsenic "a existent stroke for the municipality centre," according to Sussex world.
Unfortunately this isn't the lone of the British retailer to adjacent down, with different stores M&S stores to travel suit.
OTHER M&S CLOSURES
M&S confirmed its Murraygate Dundee will shut for bully connected July 6, with workers moving to a caller superstore astatine Gallagher Retail Park connected July 16.
Earlier this month, the M&S store in the Belfry Shopping Centre successful Redhill, Surrey stated is would adjacent connected August 17.
The fashionable concatenation runs 405 stores crossed the country, and unopen down branches successful Manchester, Swindon and Birmingham betwixt August and November past year.
M&S besides revealed the closure of its Walworth store successful South London, and its home store successful Kingditch Trading Estate successful Tewkesbury, Cheltenham.
The tract astatine The Broadway Shopping Centre closed its doors for the past clip connected May 18.
If you privation to cognize if your section mightiness be next, we person the full database of M&S stores that are marked for closure in 2024.
Why are M&S stores closing?
The precocious thoroughfare concatenation said that it had marked 110 low-performing stores successful November 2016, which would beryllium targeted arsenic portion of a large 10-year restructuring plan.
Shop closures began in April 2017 erstwhile the archetypal six stores were announced would shut.
Two years later, M&S past announced that it was speeding up its plans with implicit 110 apparel stores owed to adjacent by 2022.
By May 2019, M&S changed its plans to 120 covering store closures by April 2024.
It besides added different 25 nutrient stores to the firing line, saying they look closure oregon being relocated.
In 2021 the 30 store closures came aft a twelvemonth of M&S branches battling to past arsenic a effect of the Covid crisis.
As non-essential retailers were forced to adjacent during respective nationalist lockdowns successful 2020 and 2021, galore retailers' sales, including M&S, took a large blow.
In 2022, the changes travel arsenic it faces a pugnacious changing user patterns, rising ostentation and a £100million deed from soaring vigor costs.
The concatenation has said that it is accelerating its store overhaul to prevention astir £309million successful rent costs.
M&S has antecedently announced that it was focused connected moving retired of stores connected precocious streets with debased footfall successful favour of relocating to engaged retail parks, which proceed to beryllium fashionable with shoppers.
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Why are retailers closing shops?
EMPTY shops person go an eyesore connected galore British precocious streets and are often symbolic of a municipality centre’s decline.
The Sun's concern editor Ashley Armstrong explains wherefore truthful galore retailers are shutting their doors.
In galore cases, retailers are shutting stores due to the fact that they are nary longer the money-makers they erstwhile were due to the fact that of the emergence of online shopping.
Falling store income and rising unit costs person made it adjacent much costly for shops to enactment open. In immoderate cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a caller store astatine the different extremity of a precocious thoroughfare to bespeak however a municipality has changed.
The occupation is that erstwhile a large store closes, footfall falls crossed the section precocious street, which puts much shops astatine hazard of closing.
Retail parks are progressively fashionable with shoppers, who privation to beryllium capable to get easy, escaped parking astatine a clip erstwhile section councils person hiked parking charges successful towns.
Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer person been shutting stores connected the precocious thoroughfare and taking bigger stores successful better-performing retail parks instead.
Boss Stuart Machin precocious said that erstwhile it relocated a bushed store successful Chesterfield to a caller large store successful a retail parkland fractional a mile away, its income successful the country roseate by 103 per cent.
In immoderate cases, stores person been unopen erstwhile a retailer goes bust, arsenic successful the lawsuit of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to sanction a few.
What’s progressively communal is erstwhile a concatenation goes bust a rival retailer oregon backstage equity steadfast snaps up the intelligence spot rights truthful they tin ain the marque and merchantability it online.
They whitethorn spell connected to unfastened a fistful of stores if determination is lawsuit demand, but determination are seldom ever arsenic galore stores oregon successful the aforesaid places
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