Major bargain retailer with 750 locations confirms closure in days – but shoppers are promised ‘bigger and better’

A MAJOR discount retailer has confirmed different store closure, but shoppers won't beryllium without a branch. 

B&M volition beryllium shutting its store successful the Cockhedge Shopping Centre, Warrington, connected Monday, September 30.

However, the store, located disconnected the A49 adjacent Cockhedge roundabout, is being replaced.

A B&M spokesperson confirmed that the store is closing to marque mode for an adjacent bigger one.

The caller "bigger and better" tract volition unfastened up of the Cockhedge store's closure.

It means locals won't beryllium temporarily near without a store successful the area.

The B&M Cockhedge store volition beryllium replaced by a caller store astatine a erstwhile Wilko tract successful the Golden Square Shopping Centre.

The store volition unfastened to customers astatine 8am connected Saturday, September 28, 2024, conscionable 2 days earlier the Cockhedge store closes permanently.

A B&M spokesperson said: "We wanted a bigger and amended store for our customers, giving them adjacent much big, branded products.

"We anticipation customers are going to beryllium delighted with their caller store, and we are truly excited to get the doors unfastened precise soon.

"We are feeling highly affirmative astir the instauration of much jobs for section people, and we anticipation customers are going to beryllium delighted with their caller store."

It's not the archetypal clip B&M has unopen older stores successful favour of opening bigger stores astatine newer sites.

In June, the discounter closed its store astatine Units 51-52 successful the Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre successful Oldham.

However, conscionable days later, it was replaced by a bigger store astatine Units 9-10 successful the aforesaid retail complex.

It comes arsenic the discount retailer announced successful January it would beryllium opening 17 caller sites successful 2024.

The industry elephantine presently has astir 700 stores but has a long-term target of 950 sites.

Back successful May 2023, B&M announced plans to unfastened 30 caller stores successful the UK implicit the past year, including immoderate relocations of older sites.

However, the retailer is taking things a measurement further this twelvemonth with respective former Wilko stores successful its hands to play with. 

B&M bought up 51 Wiko sites successful a £13million woody successful September 2023 when the beloved retailer fell into administration.

To unfastened immoderate caller sites B&M has had to restructure its portfolio and this has meant immoderate stores person closed.

The retailer has closed 10 of its stores since February 2023.

SAVE MONEY AT B&M

The B&M barcode scanner app allows you to observe discounted items earlier the unit has adjacent reduced them.

The scanner is located connected the B&M Stores mobile app, which tin beryllium downloaded for escaped connected your smartphone.

Shoppers tin download it connected the App Store or Google Play.

Once you've got the app, click connected the "scan" fastener astatine the bottommost of your homepage.

This volition past bring up the camera connected your smartphone, which you'll request to usage to scan barcodes. 

When you've recovered a merchandise you privation to scan, simply constituent your smartphone camera toward its barcode.

The app volition past automatically bring up the item's terms - this is erstwhile you'll cognize if it is reduced oregon not.

Bargain hunters accidental immoderate items travel up arsenic £1, 50p oregon adjacent 10p done the app.

Shoppers should besides support an oculus retired for products with a white simplification sticker on.

This means they volition person a definite magnitude slashed disconnected the terms shown connected the label.

Shop for products astatine the extremity of the season.

Get affable with unit too.

They'll beryllium capable to archer you erstwhile the income volition hit, oregon if determination are bargains retired the backmost - truthful you get the champion bits.