A CHELMSLEY Wood store shut its doors for the final time last
week, with the loss of five jobs.
The Phones 4u branch was one of the 362 outlets to close,
after the retailer went into administration earlier this month.
While Vodafone and EE had agreed to buy up a number of
premises, the store in Chelmsley Wood shopping centre was not among those to be
handed a reprieve.
Rob Hunt, joint administrator, said: “It is with much regret
that we made the difficult decision to close a large number of stores.
“It is a sad day for the staff working at those locations
and our thoughts are with them.”
Phones 4u was set up by Midlands
businessman John Caudwell in 1996 and had more than 700 outlets nationwide.
In recent years the company had started to struggle and the
final blow came when the company’s final remaining suppliers ended their
contracts a few weeks ago.
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