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WILKO entered administration in early August leaving the future of hundreds of stores and thousands of staff at risk.
The chain currently operates more than 400 stores across the UK.
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Administrators at PwC have told The Sun that several offers to rescue the chain have been made.
But PwC is yet to confirm how many bids have been submitted to rescue Wilko – or who’s in the running.
But even if a buyer is found, the insolvency process means that a buyer can pick and choose the parts of a business it wants.
This means that both the stores and the brand could be saved.
Or it may choose to buy no stores at all and instead buy up the remaining stock or brand name only.
Sources have previously cautioned that no deal was guaranteed.
For now, stores remain open as usual.
Which Wilko stores could be at risk of closing?
Here is the full list of towns and cities with Wilko shops in the UK:
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- Aberdare
- Abergavenny
- Accrington
- Acocks Green
- Acton
- Aldershot
- Alfreton
- Alnwick
- Altrincham
- Ammanford
- Andover
- Arnold
- Ashford
- Ashington
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Aylesbury
- Ayr
- Banbury
- Barking
- Barnsley (3 stores)
- Barnstaple
- Barrow In Furness
- Barry
- Basildon
- Basingstoke
- Bedford (2)
- Bedminster
- Belper
- Beverley
- Bexleyheath
- Bicester
- Biggleswade
- Birkenhead
- Birmingham (3)
- Bishop Auckland
- Bishops Stortford
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Blackwood
- Bletchley
- Blyth
- Bognor Regis
- Bolton (2)
- Bordon
- Boston
- Bournemouth (2)
- Bradford
- Brentwood
- Bridgend
- Bridgwater
- Brigg
- Brighouse
- Bristol (3)
- Bromley
- Brownhills
- Burgess Hill
- Burnley
- Burton Upon Trent
- Bury
- Bury St Edmunds
- Camberley
- Cambridge
- Canterbury
- Cardiff (3)
- Carlisle
- Carmarthen
- Castle Douglas
- Chatham
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Chepstow
- Chester
- Chester Le Street
- Chesterfield
- Chippenham
- Clacton On Sea
- Cleethorpes
- Cleveleys
- Clowne
- Clydebank
- Coalville
- Cockermouth
- Colchester
- Corby
- Coventry (2)
- Cowley
- Cramlington
- Crawley
- Crewe
- Cwmbran
- Dagenham
- Darlington
- Dartford
- Denton
- Derby (3)
- Dereham
- Devizes
- Dewsbury
- Didcot
- Doncaster (2)
- Driffield
- Droitwich
- Dudley
- Dunstable
- Durham
- East Ham
- Eastbourne (2)
- Eccles
- Edinburgh
- Ellesmere Port
- Ely
- Epsom
- Exeter
- Falkirk
- Falmouth
- Fareham
- Farnborough
- Ferndown
- Folkestone
- Gainsborough
- Gateshead (2)
- Gillingham
- Gloucester
- Gravesend
- Grays (2)
- Great Malvern
- Great Yarmouth (2)
- Greenock
- Greenwich
- Grimsby (2)
- Halesowen
- Halifax
- Hamilton
- Hanley
- Harlow
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havant
- Haverfordwest
- Hayes
- Hemel Hempstead
- Hereford
- High Wycombe
- Hinckley
- Hitchin
- Holyhead
- Horsham
- Hounslow
- Hucknall
- Huddersfield
- Hull (2)
- Huntingdon
- Huyton
- Ilford
- Ilkeston
- Ipswich
- Irvine
- Jarrow
- Kenilworth
- Kent (2)
- Kettering
- Kidderminster
- Kings Lynn
- Kingston Upon Thames
- Kingston Upon Hull
- Kingswood
- Knowle
- Lancaster
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds (7)
- Leek
- Leicester (5)
- Leigh
- Leighton Buzzard
- Letchworth
- Lewisham
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- Liverpool (3)
- Livingston
- Llandudno
- Llanelli
- London (9)
- Long Eaton
- Loughborough
- Louth
- Lowestoft
- Luton
- Maidenhead
- Maidstone
- Manchester (4)
- Mansfield
- Market Drayton
- Market Harborough
- Matlock
- Melton Mowbray
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Middlesbrough
- Middlesex
- Mildenhall
- Milton Keynes
- Morriston
- Motherwell
- Neath
- Nelson
- Newark
- Newbury
- Newcastle
- Newcastle Under Lyme
- Newcastle Upon Tyne (3)
- Newport
- Newton Abbot
- Newton Aycliffe
- Newton-Le-Willows
- North Shields
- Northallerton
- Northampton (3)
- Northfield
- Norwich
- Nottingham (9)
- Nuneaton
- Oakham
- Orpington
- Oswestry
- Pembroke Dock
- Penge
- Perry Barr
- Peterborough (2)
- Peterlee
- Plymouth
- Pontefract
- Pontypool
- Poole
- Port Talbot
- Porthmadog
- Portsmouth
- Preston (2)
- Pwllheli
- Rainham
- Ramsgate
- Reading
- Redcar
- Redditch
- Redhill
- Redruth
- Retford
- Rhyl
- Ripley
- Romford
- Rotherham
- Rowley Regis
- Royal Kingston Upon Thames
- Rugby
- Rugeley
- Runcorn
- Rushden
- Sale
- Salford
- Scarborough
- Scunthorpe
- Seaham
- Selby
- Sheffield (6)
- Shipley
- Shirley
- Shrewsbury
- Sittingbourne
- Skegness
- Skelmersdale
- Slough
- Solihull
- South Shields
- Southampton
- Southend On Sea
- Southport
- Spalding
- St Albans
- St Austell
- St Helens
- Stafford
- Stamford
- Stevenage
- Stockport
- Stockton On Tees
- Stoke-On-Trent
- Stourbridge
- Stratford
- Strood
- Stroud
- Sunderland
- Sutton
- Sutton-In-Ashfield
- Swanley
- Swansea
- Swindon (2)
- Tamworth (2)
- Taunton
- Telford (2)
- Thetford
- Tipton
- Torquay
- Trowbridge
- Truro
- Uttoxeter
- Uxbridge
- Wakefield (2)
- Wallasey
- Walsall (2)
- Walthamstow
- Walton On Thames
- Warrington
- Washington
- Waterlooville
- Watford
- Wellingborough
- Wembley
- West Drayton
- West Ealing
- Weston-Super-Mare
- Weymouth
- Whitehaven
- Widnes
- Wigan
- Wimbledon
- Winsford
- Woking
- Wolverhampton
- Wood Green
- Woolwich
- Worcester
- Workington
- Worksop (2)
- Worthing
- Wrexham
- Wythenshawe
- Yeovil
- York
All sites will continue to operate as normal for now, and even if administrators are brought in, the stores could still keep going if the company is bought by someone else.
What other retailers are closing?
It’s not just shops either, food and pub chains have also been hit, resulting in brands like Wetherspoons and Frankie & Benny’s closing.
Following the pandemic businesses were struggling to bounce back anyway, only to then be hit by soaring energy bills.
On Saturday August 5, Clarks shoes shut the doors on its store in Fareham for food.
Before that Clarks closed a store in Dundee on July 25.
Although, some chains have managed to defy high street troubles and are actually set to open new shops.
These include discount chains like Poundland which is set to open 15 shops in the coming weeks and Greggs which is aiming to open 150 new sites this year.
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