Wilko: Most stores to shut 'in a week', union says

The national representing workers astatine Wilko said the bulk of stores are to adjacent 'in a week' aft a acquisition fell through.

The determination means unit redundancies astatine the discount retailer volition commencement successful the coming week, the GMB national said.

It said that successful a gathering with the company's head PwC, it was confirmed that determination was nary longer immoderate imaginable of redeeming the bulk of the business.

The BBC has contacted PwC.

Wilko announced earlier this period that it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs and its 400 stores astatine risk.

PwC was appointed arsenic the administrator, tasked with trying to find a purchaser for the business.