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The interactive map of MailOnline shows which stores have been closed in your city so far in 2025.
Struggling in Covid's Wake and battered by the costs of living crisis, industrial experts predict that 17,350 will be permanently closed this year.
Retail giant WHSMITH and Banks including Lloyds, TSB and Natwest have announced dozens of closures, as well as fashion chains new look and select.
The post office
The post office confirmed in November that it would be 115 branches and hundreds of jobs at hand in another big blow to the wrestling main street of Great Britain.
The controversial post giant said that a considerable number of jobs of the staff of the 1,000 stubborn headquarters were in danger.
And 115 large city center post offices would be deleted, in a movement that critics fear that pensioners and the vulnerable isolated can remain.
The commotion could see the branches transferred to retail partners or postmasters or closed forever.
Shown is the post office of Cambridge City Center, one of those in danger
The radical overhaul was part of the Drive of the Post Office to switch to a fully franchise model – similar to how Fast -Food Gigant McDonald's works.
The model sees a company that gives private individuals or groups permission to run the company and use its brand and products in exchange for a fee.
Almost all post office systems in the country are now run as a franchise, with only one percent directly under the supervision of the company.
WHSMITH
Whsmith will close 17 of its branches in the coming months, after a series of closures last year in the midst of reports that it could completely sell its 500-person High Street Store activities.
The historic British retailer confirmed in January that it has held conversations about the sale of the chain, resulting in thousands of WHSMITH employees who are confronted with uncertainty while private equity freeders keep an eye on a deal to control the stores.
The company said it assesses the options for the division, because it wants to concentrate on its greater travel operation.
It is understood that private equity groups Hilco and Alteri are among parties to arouse the interest about a possible takeover movement for the company, after WHSMith launched the process at the end of last year.
Both Hilco and Alteri have experience in the British retail and Turnaround specialists.
WHSMITH will close 17 of its stores in the coming months, after a series of closures last year (shares)
However, this can express the concern for some employees about what a takeover of a private equity takeover would mean for the future of the WHSMith High Street Estate and around 5,000 employees.
It comes after WHSMITH has previously announced plans to open 110 new branches at airports, train stations and hospitals where the win was higher than High Street stores, as well as more than 50 stores in North -America.
In the past two years, WHSMITH has closed 10 stories, including locations in Manchester, Crew, Ramsgate, Bicester, Somerset and Sale.
At the end of last year it was also announced that WHSMITH would again sell vinyl sheets after an interruption of three decades, in response to a growing trend among shoppers.
But WHSmith, who was first opened in 1792, was named the worst or second worst High Street Retailer from 2011 to 2019, in a survey of the consumer's watchdog?
Home base
Homebase is closed or is at the start of the closure, 53 of its stores.
It had previously offered 74 stores for sale after the Doet -self -chain had been in administration in November.
Homebase appointed managers at Consultancy Teneo after it was struck hard by an 'incredibly challenging' three years before the Doe -the self -sector.
Homebase is closed or is at the start of the closure, 53 of its stores. Shown: save on the Wirral
Managers closed a deal to sell the company to CDs in the retail group, which owns the reach and Wilko, where the future of up to 1,600 jobs and 70 stores are obtained.
The collapse of Homebase came in the midst of reports that bank giant Wells Fargo refused to expand the group's credit facility due to concern about her finances.
The management blamed weaker consumer confidence and expenditure after the pandemic and the costs of living crisis for profit loss.
Select Fashion
Select Fashion announced in February that it would close 35 of its stores, all located outside of London.
Shops in villages and towns in the UK closed by the affordable clothing store were Southampton, Bristol, Wolverhampton and Hartlepool.
Experts said at the time that the Cull was an important way for a select fashion, which had reduced his trading portfolio with just less than half with those closures.
Select Mode announced in February that it would close 35 of its stores, all located outside of London
It is after the fashion brand was in the administration in 2019, whereby the retailer blamed the guilty economic circumstances in the Hoofdstraat.
Select Fashion, owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu, was later purchased from the administration by Genus UK Limited.
The chain entered into a company scheme (CVA) last summer, according to recent archives on Companies House.
A CVA is a way of restructuring with which a company can negotiate with its creditors to pay off its debts, such as reducing the rental costs with landlords.
Quiz
Quiz clothing closes 23 of its branches, just a few weeks after shares in the company from the London Stock Exchange have been removed.
The wrestling retailer is expected to use a pre-pack administration deal to enable the founders to get the check over a closed version of the company, the sun reported in February.
Quiz clothing closes 23 of its branches (Shop in Exeter depicted)
The company has appointed the insolvency practitioner Teneo as manager.
About 1500 people currently work for the company in 60 stores in the UK.
But 200 of those employees could be confronted with job losses, Sky News reported.
Cineworld
CineWorld has so far closed eleven cinemas in Great Britain.
The chain unveiled the new closing plans in December after they formally completed a plan that it launched in the summer to strengthen his finances.
The company said that the restructuring has led to 'not -not -permanent operating costs tackle, achieving its most important objectives with cost -saving initiatives, including the reduction of rental prices to market level on various British sites, resulting in considerable savings'.
The CineWorld in Northampton (above) is one of the locations that has confirmed the chain will be closed
CineWorld now has 90 cinemas in the United Kingdom.
The company, which is part of the second largest cinema chain in the world, is struggling to return to earlier levels since the pandemic as an audience.
Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group announced in January that it will close 136 High Street locations in a huge blow to customers.
It will close 61 Lloyds, 61 Halifax and 14 Bank of Scotland sites between May of this year and March 2026.
The move comes weeks after the financing giant has shaken his company to use Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers to use stores in all brands.
Lloyds Banking Group has taken the decision to close 136 of his High Street branches
Lloyds blamed the decision to close the branches on customers who personally shifted from banking to the use of mobile services.
It said that all employees will get jobs elsewhere at the affected branches elsewhere.
Wetwest
Natwest will close 53 bank branches this year, because the growing number of customers choose to use online banking.
The large lender announced a complete list of locations that will close their doors forever in January.
It is after the lender supported by the taxpayer has concluded a step closer to complete privatization after the return of £ 1 billion of its government shares in November.
The company had already reduced a large part of its portfolio of physical branches, with 48 locations and around 20 in 2023 closed last year.
Since 2015, Natwest Group, which includes Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, has closed 1,409 branches.
Sainsbury's cafe
Sainsbury's announced in January it would look 61 cafés and more than 3000 jobs as part of a major overhaul.
Simon Roberts, Chief Executive of the Supermarket Group, said that the company made the cuts because it tries to lower the expenditure by £ 1 billion a year in the light of a 'particularly challenging cost environment'.
Sainsbury's announced in January it would look 61 cafés and more than 3000 jobs as part of a big overhaul
This despite the supermarket chain that recently announced its 'largest' Christmas trading period ever and predicting profit would probably be between £ 1.01 billion and £ 1.06 billion for the entire 2025.
The losses mean that the current 148,000-headed workforce is reduced by 2 percent and all 61 remaining cafés are closed.
Mr. Roberts said that the Sainsbury shoppers did not use their cafés regularly, while food halls and concessions have grown in popularity in the store.
As part of the Shake Up, the retailer also closed his remaining pastry, hot food and pizza satell layers in the store and shift the most popular items from there to regular shopping.
