Stores are set to close from next week, according to the GMB Union
Administrators have confirmed that more than 1,300 Wilko workers will be made redundant and 52 stores will be closed, a union has said. The GMB Union said workers would be informed of the news by 10am on Wednesday, September 6, at the latest.
Meanwhile, there will be a further 299 redundancies across two warehouse sites in Worksop and Newark. There will be a further 17 redundancies affecting support centre staff working on Wilko’s digital operations.These redundancies are in addition to the 269 announced last week. The announcement comes hours after rival B&M confirmed it would buy up to 51 Wilko stores for around £13 million.
The union also indicated that workers at the 51 shops that B&M said earlier on Tuesday that it had bought will not transfer automatically to the new owner. “Accepting that all details, including even the number of stores involved, are covered by confidentiality agreements, we can say that any such bid would appear to be for store premises only. This would mean that whilst new brands may open on site, workers would not transfer to these,” it said.
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