An additional 235 Bodycare staff have misplaced their jobs this week after the retailer closed one other 30 shops across the nation, having entered into administration.
The UK well being and wonder retailer, which boasts 147 shops nationwide, confirmed it had fallen into administration at the beginning of September, plunging the destiny of their workforce into uncertainty.
“Given the scarcity of inventory and prices related to working shops, it’s now not viable to proceed to commerce all 115 shops retained on appointment,” the spokesperson mentioned, with bosses beforehand including that rising lease had made issues unsustainable.
Initially launched in 1970, Bodycare is understood for promoting a wealth of inexpensive well being, magnificence and skincare merchandise, but it surely’s been largely sidelined in a aggressive retail house the place shifting shopper habits have led to elevated demand in on-line procuring.
Thus far, a complete of 685 out of 1,500 Bodycare staff have misplaced their jobs, because the UK high street continues to see a document stoop, which raises issues in regards to the future going through the nation’s retail employees.
A number of retailer closures are additionally occurring in underfunded and uncared for areas of the UK, including to additional frustration amongst native communities that really feel largely forgotten about by the UK authorities.
Bodycare’s administration makes it the newest sufferer of the British excessive road’s demise, which has adopted go well with after Poundland, Homebase, and New Look additionally introduced retailer closures.
Here’s a full record of the Bodycare shops closing this week:
- Bolton
- Bromsgrove
- Castleford
- Chesterfield
- Doncaster
- Greenock
- Mansfield
- Salford
- Skipton
- Stevenage
- Sutton-in-Ashfield
- Thornaby
- Ulverston
- Whitehaven
- Dudley
- Dunfermline
- Hanley
- Hull
- Hyde
- Ilford
- Ipswich
- Morpeth
- Newark
- Northallerton
- Ormskirk
- Redcar
- Rochdale
- Shrewsbury
- St Helens
- Workington
