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SHOPPERS person been near devastated arsenic a large precocious thoroughfare retailer gears up to adjacent 1 of its branches.
GAME is shutting its store successful The Broadway Shopping Centre, Bradford, and has launched a closing down sale.
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It is not wide the nonstop day the subdivision volition close.
A spokesperson for The Broadway told The Telegraph and Argus: "We tin corroborate that Game volition beryllium closing and we volition beryllium announcing caller manner and quality retailers successful the coming weeks."
Shoppers person been near fuming aft uncovering retired the store, which sells everything from consoles to video games and PC accessories, volition adjacent down permanently.
"Yet different 1 closes," 1 said connected Facebook.
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Another commented: "Bradford is going to beryllium a shade town."
Another added: "RIP Bradford."
The latest GAME closure comes aft the retailer, operated by the Frasers Group, unopen a fig of different branches crossed the UK.
Almost a twelve GAME branches person closed successful England and Wales since past October.
A subdivision successful Nuneaton, Warwickshire, shuttered successful November, a store successful Witney, Oxfordshire, successful January and 1 successful Plymouth, Devon the pursuing month.
A fig of different retailers person unopen up store successful Bradford successful caller months too.
Outdoor covering concatenation Trespass launched a closing down sale astatine its subdivision successful The Broadway Shopping Centre past month.
Meanwhile, posh nutrient and covering retailer M&S shut a subdivision successful the aforesaid buying centre successful May.
Flannels, besides tally by Frasers Group, closed its subdivision successful Bradford successful December contempt opening conscionable 3 months before.
Game was bought retired by billionaire businessman Mike Ashley's Frasers Group successful 2019 arsenic portion of a £52million deal.
But by January 2020 it had announced plans to adjacent 40 of its much than 300 stores crossed the UK.
As of today, determination are astir 240 Game stores nationwide.
It comes arsenic income of carnal video games person fallen majorly since Game's highest successful the aboriginal 2000s.
Digital income accounted for astir 9 retired of each 10 video games sold successful the UK successful 2022, according to commercialized assemblage the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), reported the BBC.
RETAIL CLOSURES ACROSS THE UK
A fig of retailers are struggling crossed the UK aft the cost of living situation deed shoppers' pockets.
High inflation successful 2022 and 2023 and wage bills for retailers besides forced galore to adjacent stores for good.
Wilko fell into medication past year arsenic its 400 stores and thousands of unit were near successful limbo.
Ted Baker, Cath Kidston and Paperchase person each filed for medication successful caller years too.
This week, large manner concatenation Next warned of imaginable store closures after losing a landmark ineligible lawsuit implicit adjacent pay.
Some retailers person managed to subordinate the inclination and grow their fig of stores crossed the UK.
Aldi, B&M and Lidl person each announced plans to unfastened much stores successful caller months arsenic shoppers look for bargain buys to marque their budgets stretch.
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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