![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wilko-reveals-exact-date-remaining-111-stores-will-close-for-good-in-october/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0825e019-5b0e-4475-885b-2320de85ddcc.jpg&description=Breaking END OF AN ERA Published : 13:33, 22 Sep 2023 Updated : 13:39, 22 Sep 2023 WILKO is to shut the doors of its last remaining stores on Sunday October 8 as the collapse of the historic retailer comes to a close. The hardware and furnishings retailer tumbled into administration last month after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers. 1 All remaining Wilko stores will close for good in October Credit: Alamy The retailer will shut its final 111 stores in early October as part of the final phase of closures, administrators for PwC said. But B&M and Poundland have purchased a handful of stores which could reopen in the future. The Range last week snapped up the Wilko brand , including the name and website, in a £5million deal with administrators . Now, a message on the Wilko website is promising customers that home delivery is "returning soon". Wilko was originally founded by James Kemsey Wilkinson in Leicester in 1930 and employed 12,500 workers before its collapse. The following stores will shut on Tuesday October 3: Hounslow, Greater London St Albans, Hertfordshire Dunstable, Bedfordshire Weston Favell, Northampton Bristol Lancaster, Lancashire Leeds Trinity, West Yorkshire Reading, Berkshire Poole, Dorset Lincoln, Lincolnshire Halifax, West Yorkshire Washington, Newcastle upon Tyne Hitchin, Hertfordshire Chatham, Kent Southend, Essex Metro Centre, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Epsom, Surrey Cannon Park, Coventry, Warwickshire Norwich, Norfolk Preston, Lancashire Canterbury, Kent Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey Carlisle, Cumbria Barnsley, South Yorkshire Kingswood, Bristol Colchester, Essex Ilford, Greater London Maidstone, Kent Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire The following stores will shut on Thursday October 5: Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire Tottenham Hale, Greater London Worthing, West Sussex Romford, Greater London Selly Oak, Birmingham Wembley, London Birstall, West Yorkshire Uxbridge, Greater London Burton, Staffordshire Lee Ci){kind=link}
WILKO is to shut the doors of its last remaining stores on Sunday October 8 as the collapse of the historic retailer comes to a close.
The hardware and furnishings retailer tumbled into administration last month after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers.
The retailer will shut its final 111 stores in early October as part of the final phase of closures, administrators for PwC said.
But B&M and Poundland have purchased a handful of stores which could reopen in the future.
The Range last week snapped up the Wilko brand, including the name and website, in a £5million deal with administrators.