High street giant New Look has announced it is closing several stores across the UK. The fashion retailer has been a firm favourite on the high street for years, and it's a devastating blow for shoppers.
Several New Look stores have already closed for good. More are set to follow.
Three of the site closures were down to the landlord wanting to take the retail space back. Of the sites to be closing, four shut up shop in January and three are closing in February.
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The locations of the sites affected include Birmingham, Coventry, Trowbridge, Kirkcaldy, Walthamstow and Northampton. A New Look spokesperson told Birmingham Live: “Regrettably, our New Look store in Coventry's Arena Shopping Park is closing following the landlord's request to take the property back and exit the lease early.
"We have loved being part of the local community and we would like to thank all of our customers in the local area.” On the Trowbridge and Kirkcaldy closure, a New Look spokesperson repeated the statement.
Full list of the locations and dates they'll be shutting their doors:
- Birmingham, Fort Shopping Park - January 9
- Trowbridge - January 23
- Coventry - January 29
- Birmingham, Bullring - January 30
- Walthamstow, London - February 4
- Grosvenor Centre, Northampton - February 15
Kirkcaldy- early February
Last month, the high-street retailer announced it was expanding its partnership with second-hand clothing website Re-Fashion by launching six new in-store concessions across the UK. From the end of January, New Look opened Re-Fashion concessions within its Coventry, Nottingham, Peterborough, Leicester, Loughborough and Wolverhampton stores.
The concessions offer consumers vintage and pre-loved clothing items ranging from designer to sportswear labels and vintage pieces. The retailer said the partnership would be a "tangible way" to create awareness for more sustainable ways of buying clothes.
As of March 2022, New Look said it had 440 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. On its website, the retailer says it has over 10,000 team members.
New Look is not the only fashion retailer announcing closures to its sites, recently the popular brand H&M announced it was closing a handful of stores in the UK. The fashion brand said a "rapid change in customer behaviour" was to blame for the decision.
The sites affected included two branches in Hartlepool and one on the Isle of Wight, Burton and another in Maidenhead.
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