The Retailer Dixons Carphone has said it will axe 2,900 jobs under plans to close all 531 of its standalone Carphone Warehouse stores by the 3rd April
The decision is not Coronavirus related says the Company but a result of the changing business models related to sales of mobile phones.
Almost 40% of staff (1,800) affected by the closures are expected to take new roles in the business, the firm said.
Group chief executive Alex Baldock said customers were increasingly buying online and from its big stores which sold computers and TVs as well as mobiles instead of its smaller, standalone mobile shops.
“They can’t find all this in the small mobile-only stores that are one-twentieth of the size; they’re visiting these less and these stores are losing more money as a result,” he added.
