Hundreds of Woolworths stores close

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Two hundred stores opened for the final time on Saturday morning after being given a one-day reprieve by administrators.

The outlets were due to shut on Friday but Deloitte pushed the closures back a day to give the stores more time to clear their remaining stock.

A spokeswoman for Deloitte said the closures had gone ahead as planned.

The closures come as it was revealed that staff at a Woolworths store in St Helier, Jersey, have launched a petition after being told they will not get pay-outs because the UK statutory redundancy scheme does not operate in the Channel Islands.

The final closure deadline for the retailer has also been delayed by a day, with the remaining 200 stores now set to close on Tuesday.

Deloitte said there were two reasons for delaying the closures.

A spokesman explained: "One, stock levels - there's still some stock remaining. Two, workload - it's a big logistical exercise. The remaining dates were delayed to allow time for the final arrangements to be made."

More than half the UK stores have already shut down. At least 150 of the retailer's 807 outlets held their last day of trading on December 30, with everything, including the fixtures and fittings, on sale at discount prices.

The firm's collapse leaves 27,000 workers facing redundancy.