CPW to close all standalone 531 Carphone Warehouse stores

[pgn]

Reported on Sky Breaking News:

Retailer Dixons Carphone says it will cut 2,900 jobs under plans to close all 531 of its standalone Carphone Warehouse stores.

https://news.sky.com/story/carphone-warehouse-2-900-jobs-axed-as-all-standalone-stores-to-close-1195...

Uhoh. 

[MI5]

Online is continuing to kill the high street.....
Sad news.

[liggerz87]

Lol I was just about to post I been watching news not a peep about it mate told me

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:
Online is continuing to kill the high street.....
Sad news.

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It is sad. As long as I can get my grandons new phone in May. I suppose I will have to go through Dixons now?

[MI5]

Pc world I assume.

[Anonymous]

It's not a huge surprise, in town we have 2 standalone CPW & 1 in PCWorld.. over saturation is not exactly the best business model

[gmarkj]

Wow. Not hugely surprised, but still not great news.
Fewer people use the shops though, particularly as better deals are available on-line...

[pgn]

I have been able to check the O2 shop, ask about offers on a handset, then go down a floor in the shopping centre, get the same phone/handset from CPW for 20quid less, including the obligatory £10 SIM card, go back up to the O2 shop and get them to transfer the number and balance to the new (nano) SIM (PAYG).

O2 Gurus in-store said they saw it frequently, where O2 could not price match the other outlet elsewhere in the same shopping centre - but as an existing O2 customer, they were happy enough to perform the transfer service for me (older daughter, actually). 

Odd, the way the world works. 

[Cleoriff]

I used online for my grandsons last phone. Pity they can't keep the online service going.

[MI5]

CPW have a few online outlets which I'm sure will survive.