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Jessops announce hit list - Following Jessops' plans to axe 81 of its shops as announced last Thursday, the photographic retail giant have unveiled exactly which stores it plans to close down.
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Jessops have unveiled exactly which of their stores they are planning to close after their announcement that 81 stores will be removed from their chain. The cutback is predicted to cause the loss of some 550 jobs, and Jessops have disclosed that the changes will be made by the end of September this year.
According to Jessops PR Company Hogarth, the stores facing the axe are as follows:
Banchory 74, High St.
Bangor Unit 2 Bloomfield Shopping Centre, South Circular Road
Basingstoke 2/3 Market Place
Bedford 5 Market Hall, The Arcade
Belfast 7 Arthur Square
Birmingham 35 Colmore Row
Birmingham Unit SU521, The Bull Ring
Blackburn 26 King William Street Blackburn S/C
Bolton The Banstand Middlebrook Retail Park
Bradford 44 Kirkgate
Brighton 154 Western Road
Brighton 78 London Road
Bristol Rupert Street
Bristol 8 St Augustines Parade
Bromley UML 203 The Glades Shopping Centre
Buxton 58 Spring Gardens
Cambridge 71 Bridge Street
Carlisle 14/16 English Street
Carmarthen 21 Red Street
Cheltenham 110/112 High Street
Chester 31 St Werburgh Street
Coventry 21A Cross Cheaping
Croydon 6 High Street
Doncaster 3/4 Baxtergate
Dublin 111 Grafton Street
Dundee 22 Reform St
Edinburgh - South St. 11 South St David Street
Ellon 40 Market St
Glasgow U B18 Glasgow Fort
Glasgow 240 Sauchiehall St
Great Yarmouth 7, Market Gate SC
Harlow UA3.5B The Water Gardens, Civic Centre
Hounslow 295 High Street
Huddersfield 75 New Street
Hull Unit 2 The Pod, Junction Retail Park
Ilkeston 25 Bath Street
Inverness
Ipswich 11 Upper Brook Street
Kingston upon Thames 42 Fife Road
Lancaster 5 Cheapside
Leamington Spa 63 Regent Street
Leeds 51/53 Wade Lane
Leeds 26 Commercial Street
London Unit 1, Cannon St Station
London Unit 18, Gallions Reach Armada Way Beckton
London 46 Fleet Street
London 154 Tottenham Court Road
London U8, 1 Poultry
London 11 Frognall Parade, Finchley
Luton 47 The Arndale Centre
Maidstone U2 45 Checkersgate
Manchester Manchester Fort Cheetham Hill
Mansfield 25 Market Place
Melton Mowbray 5 Market Place
Merry Hill U11 PH3 Merry Hill S/C
Milton Keynes 134 Central Arcade 68 Midsummer Blvrd
Nairn 112, High St
Northampton U16B Peacock Place S/C
Northfield Unit 33 Grosvenor Centre
Norwich Unit 5, 9 Westlegate
Norwich 3 St Stephens Street
Nottingham 3 Cheapside
Oswestry 3 Bailey Street
Peterborough 8 Cowgate
Plymouth 15 Armada Ctr,
Port Lethen ASDA Shopping Centre
Reading 7 Duke Street
Rotherham Unit 31 Retail World, Stadium Way, Parkgate
Rugby 39 Regent Street
Scunthorpe Unit 70 High Street The Foundry
Solihull Unit 37, Touchwood
Southampton 89 Commercial Road
Stevenage 13, Park Place
Stockport 76/78 Princes Street
Stourbridge 30 Rye Market Shopping Centre
Watford U162A The Harlequin S/C
WestBromwich 194 High St
Windsor 24 Peascod Street
Wolverhampton 10/11 Queen Street
Wolverhampton 4 Central Arcade
Worcester 30 The Cross
Jessops has said that 47 of the shops to be closed "overlap" with shops in the same area, 31 are "loss-making", and three "subject to redevelopment". They also confirmed that six of the stores had already closed and that they had received offers on 44 others.
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Very surprised that none of the three stores in York are closing. Two of them are no more than about 50 yards apart! The other one is in an edge-of-town retail park and there's never anyone in it when I go there! (Perhaps it's just me! 
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I wonder when they will inform the employees that thier stores are closing!!!
Closing the big Sauchiehall St store is just stupid, It is roight round the corner from the Glasgow arts university. Why not shut the 5 smaller stores and keep the big store open. The silly small store outside Central station is usless every time you go in asking for an item they tell you "we don't have that item, try the Sauchiehall St store"
I wonder when they will inform the employees that thier stores are closing!!!
They did do, last week.
I feel sorry for the good and helpful staff. Some knew their stuff but it varied too much.
Perhaps it is time for Jessops to reduce their prices a little on stock items, I have always found them to be the most expensive for the little thinks we need for photography
That must be very bad news for the people who work there. Can't understand why they do it. Some on the list seem to give a good profit to them.
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They can close them all as far as I'm concerned. I went into the shop at Glasgow Fort where they are selling off their stock. The "reduced" prices on lenses has only brought them down to match retailers on the net.
It's no wonder they are shutting so many stores!
Most of the equipment in their stores has been vastly overpriced for many years! (It's the same on-line)
The fat cat Directors need not worry - they'll be just fine!
The staff I feel sorry for. They for the most part are very helpful and more importantly know their stuff. Unfortuanately for these people it's the new age of digital photography that has ultimately killed their careers!
With digital photography being so accessible (and easy!) to every Tom, D**k and Harriet - the good old camera shop will soon be a thing of the past!
In Glasgow alone, a city that used to be full of camera shops - there soon wont be any at all!
Great shame.
i dont shop at Jessops but i do support my other local camera shops in Nottingham. everyone is feeling the ebay chinese pinch , if you can support your local camera shop then all the better otherwise it may not be there for much longer.cheers martyn
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