Woolworths is being resurrected?
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... n-19172296

Peacocks and Bonmarché are in trouble.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54477265

Looks like Trump knows how Boris felt in April now.

Cineworld is closing all of it's cinemas. Supposedly temporarily, but staff will lose their jobs and they do seem to be in a financial pickle...
https://variety.com/2020/film/global/ci ... 234791728/

The site is actually back online, so everything should be here.
http://www.mcmweb.co.uk/apfs/index.html

Is Argos done for as a standalone operation I wonder? Obviously following the Sainsbury's acquisition rationalisation of the store estate was inevitable (and indeed well underway, with a number of high street locations being closed and 'moved' to a Sainsbury's several miles away) but their actions ...

This is the rebrand thread, I think that belongs in the high street chain collapse thread?

New Sports Direct logo.

DW Sports is closing down.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53635211

The National Holidays brand has been bought. The new owner JG Travel plans to rehire the drivers and run most of the same trips starting next year, but isn't taking responsibility for the previous company's debts.
https://www.travelmole.com/news_feature ... id=2043493

However, I wouldn't put it past Boots in the end to close some of the smaller community based stores in the future. Are a lot of these not also acquisitions? I thought Boots had a bit of a policy of buying up pharmacies to stop the competition buying them. (I'm not sure if closing a pharmacy needs ...