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Three Peacocks stores in south Essex shutting down

Three Peacocks stores in south Essex are shutting down with the loss of 45 jobs.

The stores in Basildon, Grays and Lakeside will be closing imminently.

There will be 12 redundancies at Basildon, 12 at Grays and 21 at Lakeside.

Edinburgh Woollen Mill, which is one of the UK’s largest high street chains, has taken over the failing chain.

The deal struck has protected around 6,000 jobs in the UK.

Comments(6)

The Cater Wood Creeper says...
6:28pm Wed 22 Feb 12

three more poundshops or pawnbroker style establishments opening soon then....

fletch12107 says...
6:58pm Wed 22 Feb 12

Well demand for the Peacock was always going to wane with so many chicken shops opening up.

katch22 says...
8:26pm Wed 22 Feb 12

keep the peacocks ditch the KFC

Rayleigh mum says...
8:46pm Wed 22 Feb 12

It would be a big loss to Rayleigh if Peacocks closes, it is a large retail unit and given the time it took to re-occupy Woolworths when it closed, Rayleigh would suffer if it were to go. And we really don't need any more hairdressers or takeaways thanks!

robessex says...
2:17am Thu 23 Feb 12

Her is the list for the South/East stores that are closing. A few in Essex,

Southampton (Portswood Rd), Ashford, Gravesend, Grays, Slough, Newmarket, Fulham, Tooting, Ilford, Brentwood, Barking, Bishop's Stortford, Wokingham, Chatham, Crayford, Great Yarmouth, Leigh Park, East Ham, Shepherd's Bush, Lewisham, West Ealing, Dartford, Staines, Newbury, Deptford, Hoxton, Wood Green, Forest Gate, Stratford, Leyton, Horley, Swanley, Ware, Royston, Basildon, Brighton, Chelmsford, Harlow, Erith, East Dereham, Uxbridge, Hemel Hempstead, Crawley, Banbury, Feltham, Newport IOW, Reading, Harringay, Southampton city, Lakeside, Thanet, Folkestone, Bury St Edmunds, Maidenhead, Wembley, Basingstoke, Newbury, Aylesbury, Canterbury, Kilburn, Watford, Woking, Norwich, Swiss Cottage, Hitchin, Bexley Heath

Brunning999 says...
7:13am Thu 23 Feb 12

Good news for Rayleigh which is a nice shopping centre with nice people shopping, unlike Southend and Basildon which struggle on both issues.

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