The end is rapidly approaching for fallen high street chain Woolworths, with its remaining 200 stores set to close tomorrow.
Another 200 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. The final closure deadline for the retailer was also pushed back a day to tomorrow.
Most of the UK stores have already closed, with at least 150 of the retailer's 807 outlets holding their last day of trading on December 30th.
Everything, including the fixtures and fittings, went on sale at discount prices.
The chain, which outlived its US parent by more than 10 years, was already foundering when the credit crunch and sharp downturn in consumer spending finally toppled it in November.
The firm's collapse left 27,000 workers facing redundancy.
Deloitte has held talks with other retailers to take on the leases of around 300 Woolworths stores and hopes to sell off the Ladybird children's clothes and Chad Valley toys brands.
FW Woolworths first came to the UK in 1909, when the American firm opened a branch in Liverpool. Everything in the Merseyside store was sold for sixpence (2.5p), making it an instant hit and the company quickly expanded.
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