Future of two Wilko stores - in Top Town and Freeman Street - still hanging by a thread

                                               

What future Wilko's two stores in Grimsby? Will they suffer same fate of shop in  Cleethorpes (above) that closed last year to the dismay of many of its customers?

CLARIFICATION is still awaited on the future of two Wilko stores in Grimsby following the collapse of the household goods chain.

Neither the shop in Freeman Street nor the larger one in Bull Ring Lane are on the list of those earmarked for closure.

A competitor retail company, B&M,  has been running the slide rule over the Wilko portfolio and has identified 51 that it is interested in acquiring as part of a £13-million deal, but these have not yet been named.  

A list published today by administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals the  doomed shops.  

The following will close on Tuesday 12 September:

Acton

Aldershot

Barking

Bishop Auckland

Bletchley FF

Brownhills

Camberley

Cardiff Bay Retail Park

Falmouth

Harpurhey

Irvine

Liverpool Edge Lane

Llandudno

Lowestoft

Morley

Nelson

Port Talbot

Putney

Stafford

Tunbridge Wells

Wakefield

Weston-super-Mare

Westwood Cross

Winsford

The following will close on Thursday 14 September:

Ashford

Avonmeads

Banbury

Barrow in Furness

Basildon

Belle Vale

Burnley (Relocation)

Clydebank

Cortonwood

Dagenham

Dewsbury

Eccles

Folkestone

Great Yarmouth

Hammersmith

Huddersfield

Morriston

New Malden

North Shields

Queen Street Cardiff

Rhyl

Southampton-West Quay

St Austell

Stockport

Truro

Uttoxeter

Walsall

Woking