THREE stores in Barrow are at risk of closure after a retail giant announced plans to merge its brands.
Retail giant Dixons Carphone is to shut more than 130 stores under plans to roll out electrical superstores merging its three main brands across the UK and Ireland.
The group said it will overhaul all its PC World and Currys stores to relaunch as so-called three-in-one stores, combining PC World, Currys and Carphone Warehouse over the next year and a half.
It will close 134 stores as part of the revamp, but Dixons Carphone said it will relocate all staff impacted to nearby superstores. Details of the changes came as the group hailed a "strong" performance over Christmas and edged its annual profit outlook higher.
Dixons Carphone will see its store numbers reduce to 323 in the UK from 402 and to 15 in Ireland from 27, while it is also cutting the number of standalone Carphone Warehouse mobile stores to 684 from 723 in the UK. It said that despite the closures, it still aims to have the vast majority of the population within 20 minutes' drive of one of its superstores.
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