A MAJOR high street chain is shutting two of its stores for good today.
Poundland is closing its stores in Oldham, Manchester, and Ballymena, County Antrim, as part of a huge wave of closures.
Locals in Oldham said the closure was a “sign of the town’s decline”.
Resident David Johnson told the Manchester Evening News that the store had already been nearly empty before the closure.
“Bare empty shelves, hardly anything left… My commiserations to the staff working there, hopefully they find another job after this,” he said.
The discount chain is shutting a further 12 by the end of the year, including its locations in Brighton and Weston-Super-Mare.
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It’s already closed down dozens of stores this year and has plans to shutter more early next year, meaning more than 100 of its shops will have closed.
Poundland has been going through a major restructuring after it was sold by Pepco to investment firm Gordon Brothers for just £1 earlier this year.
This is the full list of stores set to close later this year:
- Weston Favell, Northamptonshire – December 19
- Lancaster, Lancashire – December 19
- Portishead, Somerset – December 24
- Grantham, Lincolnshire – December 24
- Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset – December 24
- Hammersmith, Greater London – December 24
- Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland – December 31
- Farnham, Surrey – December 31
- Brighton, East Sussex – December 31
- Hempstead Valley, Kent – December 31
- Northampton Sixfields, Northamptonshire – December 31
- Prestatyn, Denbighshire – December 31
Meanwhile these are the stores closing in 2026:
- Faversham, Kent – January 6
- Liverpool, Merseyside – January 15
- Yeovil, Somerset – January 16
- Nottingham Eastpoint, Nottinghamshire – January 22
- Lymington, Hampshire – January 23
- Christchurch (47 High Street), Dorset – January 23
- Bristol Avon Meads, Bristol – January 29
- Winton, Dorset – February 6
- Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland – February 8
- Bexhill, East Sussex – January 5
- Ponders End, Greater London – January 5
- Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland – January 5
- Mitcham, Greater London – January 14
- Cameron Toll, Edinburgh, Scotland – January 20.
