Full list of February store closures including WHSmith

The latest data from the Centre for Retail Research forecasts that 17,349 stores will shut in 2025, up from 13,479 recorded to have closed in 2024.

Several major British brands have confirmed they will shut brick-and-mortar sites, leaving some with a scarce presence in town centres and local shopping districts.

WHSmith is the latest retailer to announce mass closures, with plans to remove four high-street shops from its portfolio in February. It is part of a nationwide strategy to move away from old-format sites and focus on travel hubs

Fashion chains, pubs and supermarkets will join the stationery giant in shutting down sites across the country, with many aiming for short May deadlines to finalise closures.

Express.co.uk has rounded up all the stores closing in February 2025. Is your local high street affected?

WHSmith

The iconic blue and white shop signage will become a rare sight after WHSmith confirmed it will close 500 high-street stores. Two have already ceased trading this month, in Bournemouth town centre and Luton, Bedfordshire.

A quadruple closure will strike in February, with Bournemouth featuring again on the list of earmarked sites. Shoppers in Basingstoke, Hampshire, will see their local branch close on February 1 after 56 years of trade.

Basingstoke, Hampshire (February 1)
Winton, Bournemouth (February 15)
Rhyl, Denbighshire (February 15)
Bolton, Greater Manchester (February 15)

Superdrug

Another major blow has been dealt to Bournemouth’s high street. Superdrug, a prominent retailer with over 800 branches, has confirmed the closure of its popular town centre site.

The shop is located on Commercial Road, a decades-old central retail hub, and will lock its doors for the final time on January 31 – just before a fresh month of closures commences.

Wetherspoons

The beloved and notoriously affordable pub chain bid farewell to several sites in 2024, including the Hain Line in Cornwall and The George in Wanstead. As for those yet to close, three Wetherspoon pubs remain either for sale or ‘under offer’ and could well close this February.

The Ivor Davies, Cardiff (for sale)
The Quay, Poole (for sale)
Sir Daniel Arms, Swindon (under offer)

Sainsbury’s cafés

The supermarket chain is shutting all remaining in-store cafés and patisserie, pizza and hot food counters, cutting 3,000 jobs. Exact dates are yet to be confirmed, but there’s a chance the stores could shut imminently.

Fosse Park, Leicestershire
Pontypridd, South Wales
Rustington, West Sussex
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Penzance, Cornwall
Denton, Greater Manchester
Wrexham, North Wales
Longwater, Norwich, Norfolk
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Pontllanfraith, South Wales
Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire
Nantwich, Cheshire
Pinhoe Road, Exeter, Devon
Pepper Hill – Northfleet, Kent
Marshall Lake, Solihull, West Midlands
Rhyl, North Wales
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Bridgemead, Swindon, Wiltshire
Larkfield, Aylesford, Kent
Whitchurch Bargates, Shropshire
Sedlescombe Road, Hastings, East Sussex
Barnstaple, Devon
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Kings Lynn Hardwick, Norfolk
Truro, Cornwall
Warren Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk
Godalming, Surrey
Hereford, Herefordshire
Chichester, West Sussex
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
Newport, South Wales
Talbot Heath, Dorset
Rugby, Warwickshire
Cannock, Staffordshire
Leek, Staffordshire
Winterstoke Road, Bristol
Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester
Morecambe, Lancashire
Darlington, County Durham
Monks Cross, Huntington, North Yorkshire
Marsh Mills, Plymouth, Devon
Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex
Durham, County Durham
Bamber Bridge, Lancashire
Weedon Road, Northampton, East Midlands
Hempstead Valley, Kent
Hedge End, Hampshire
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Thanet Westwood Cross, Kent
Stanway, Colchester, Essex
Castle Point, Essex
Isle of Wight
Keighley, West Yorkshire
Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Leicester North, East Midlands
Wakefield Marsh Way, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Torquay, Devon
Waterlooville, Hampshire
Macclesfield, Cheshire
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Cheadle, Greater Manchester

Monki

H&M-owned Monki only made its high street debut in 2012, and it’s already waving them goodbye. With just seven stores nationwide, the brand will cease to exist in a brick-and-mortar capacity. However, H&M has suggested that a ‘limited number’ will become Weekday stores, another of its subsidiaries, but it hasn’t said which ones or when.

The full list of Monki stores shutting are:

Glasgow (no specified date)
Sheffield (no specified date)
Birmingham (no specified date)
Bristol (no specified date)
London (no specified date)

Millets

Outdoor retailer Millets has announced that six of its 100 UK stores will close shortly. A fraction of them, four to be exact, will become Go Outdoors instead. The sites earmarked for closure are as follows: