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Major high street retailer with 240 branches to shut city centre store as shoppers say ‘yet another one closes’
SHOPPERS have been left devastated as a major high street retailer gears up to close one of its branches.
GAME is shutting its store in The Broadway Shopping Centre, Bradford, and has launched a closing down sale.
It is not clear the exact date the branch will close.
A spokesperson for The Broadway told The Telegraph and Argus: “We can confirm that Game will be closing and we will be announcing new fashion and beauty retailers in the coming weeks.”
Shoppers have been left fuming after finding out the store, which sells everything from consoles to video games and PC accessories, will close down permanently.
“Yet another one closes,” one said on Facebook.
Another commented: “Bradford is going to be a ghost town.”
Another added: “RIP Bradford.”
The latest GAME closure comes after the retailer, operated by the Frasers Group, shut a number of other branches across the UK.
Almost a dozen GAME branches have closed in England and Wales since last October.
A branch in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, shuttered in November, a store in Witney, Oxfordshire, in January and one in Plymouth, Devon the following month.
A number of other retailers have shut up shop in Bradford in recent months too.
Outdoor clothing chain Trespass launched a closing down sale at its branch in The Broadway Shopping Centre last month.
Meanwhile, posh food and clothing retailer M&S shut a branch in the same shopping centre in May.
Flannels, also run by Frasers Group, closed its branch in Bradford in December despite opening just three months before.
Game was bought out by billionaire businessman Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group in 2019 as part of a £52million deal.
But by January 2020 it had announced plans to close 40 of its more than 300 stores across the UK.
As of today, there are roughly 240 Game stores nationwide.
It comes as sales of physical video games have fallen majorly since Game’s peak in the early 2000s.
Digital sales accounted for almost nine out of every 10 video games sold in the UK in 2022, according to trade body the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), reported the BBC.
RETAIL CLOSURES ACROSS THE UK
A number of retailers are struggling across the UK after the cost of living crisis hit shoppers’ pockets.
High inflation in 2022 and 2023 and wage bills for retailers also forced many to close stores for good.
Wilko fell into administration last year as its 400 stores and thousands of staff were left in limbo.
Ted Baker, Cath Kidston and Paperchase have all filed for administration in recent years too.
This week, major fashion chain Next warned of possible store closures after losing a landmark legal case over equal pay.
Some retailers have managed to buck the trend and expand their number of stores across the UK.
Aldi, B&M and Lidl have all announced plans to open more stores in recent months as shoppers look for bargain buys to make their budgets stretch.
Why are retailers closing shops?
EMPTY shops have become an eyesore on many British high streets and are often symbolic of a town centre’s decline.
The Sun’s business editor Ashley Armstrong explains why so many retailers are shutting their doors.
In many cases, retailers are shutting stores because they are no longer the money-makers they once were because of the rise of online shopping.
Falling store sales and rising staff costs have made it even more expensive for shops to stay open. In some cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a new shop at the other end of a high street to reflect how a town has changed.
The problem is that when a big shop closes, footfall falls across the local high street, which puts more shops at risk of closing.
Retail parks are increasingly popular with shoppers, who want to be able to get easy, free parking at a time when local councils have hiked parking charges in towns.
Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer have been shutting stores on the high street and taking bigger stores in better-performing retail parks instead.
Boss Stuart Machin recently said that when it relocated a tired store in Chesterfield to a new big store in a retail park half a mile away, its sales in the area rose by 103 per cent.
In some cases, stores have been shut when a retailer goes bust, as in the case of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to name a few.
What’s increasingly common is when a chain goes bust a rival retailer or private equity firm snaps up the intellectual property rights so they can own the brand and sell it online.
They may go on to open a handful of stores if there is customer demand, but there are rarely ever as many stores or in the same places.
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80s movie star has barely aged a day 37 years after playing villain in cult classic – and turning down iconic TV gig
80s movie star Sela Ward has barely aged a day 37 years after playing villain Kim Lacey in cult classic Hello Again.
The 68-year-old actress took on the role of the baddie in the romantic com film in 1987.
Sela was 31-years-old when she took on the role of the back in the late 80s.
The blockbuster, directed and produced by Frank Perry, also starred the likes of Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, and Austin Pendleton.
Hello Again follows the story of Shelley Long’s character Lucy Chadman – a woman who chokes on some food and ends up dying.
A physic (Judith Ivey) brings her back to life, but is heartbroken when her husband Jason (Corbin Bernsen) has found love again with her best friend Kim (Sela).
Now, 37 years on on the iconic role, Sela looked absolutely incredible.
After her stint on the film, Sela landed roles in other movies including Steele Justice, Double Jeopardy and The Fugitive.
Not only that, around the same time she appeared in various TV shows including Rainbow Drive, Bridesmaids and L.A Law.
However, it was her role Teddy Reed in NBC show Sisters that catapulted her into fame.
The actress appeared in 127 episodes over six seasons between 1991 and 1996.
After that, Sela went on land roles in some very well-known shows.
She played Lily Manning in Once Again between 1999 and 2002.
Sela took on the role of Jo Danville in CS: NY for three years in 2010.
She also famously turned down Teri Hatcher’s role as Susan in Desperate Housewives.
Most recently, she played a special agent in FBI back in 2019.
She was also president Elizabeth Lanford in the American sci-fi film Independence Day: Resurgence in 2016.
The star hasn’t appeared on our screens as a character over the last few years.
Throughout her successful career Sela has been been awarded a number of gongs including a Golden Globe, Prime Time Emmy Award and CinemaCon Award.
She’s still a huge hit with fans and boasts 113k followers on Instagram.
Her last post was in 2023, posing for a snap with Morgan Freeman.
Sela has been married to Howard Elliott Sherman since 1992.
The pair share two kids.
