Poundland closing 44 shops temporarily during lockdown – see the full list

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POUNDLAND is closing 44 shops temporarily from this Sunday due to the third coronavirus lockdown.

The closures come after an 80% drop in customers visiting some stores.

Poundland is ‘hibernating’ 44 of its stores

The rest of Poundland’s 800 stores will remain open for business.

In the first 2020 lockdown, Poundland hibernated around 120 stores in March and was able to start reopening them from the end of May.   

You can see the full list of shops temporarily closing in the box below.

Poundland hasn’t said when they expect to reopen these branches.

But in the majority of locations where Poundland is closing stores, the retailer says there is another branch nearby that will remain open.   

Poundland will place colleagues in temporarily closed stores on furlough “where appropriate”.

Austin Cooke, Poundland’s retail director said: “We learned valuable lessons during the lockdown in March about how buying patterns change as people stick to government advice to stay at home

“Putting a small number of stores into hibernation helps protect them for the long term and focus our attention on the majority of stores that remain open to serve their neighbourhoods. 

“We hope this lockdown is short and we can re-open our hibernating stores as quickly as possible and we remain grateful for the vital support schemes available to us that help protect jobs.” 

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