60 jobs go as Comet closes

60 jobs go as Comet closes

8:28am Wednesday 19th December 2012 in Your Town

SIXTY workers have lost their jobs after Bolton?s two Comet electrical stores closed down.

Comet went into administration in November and closed 41 stores across the UK last month.

The remaining 193 UK stores shops were shut yesterday, with the loss of 7,000 jobs, costing ?23 million, which will be paid by the government's redundancy payments service.

Bolton?s Trinity Retail Park and Middlebrook branches were among those that closed yesterday.

Staff at the Trinity branch were removing remaining furniture, fittings, paperwork and even floor linings.

One worker said: ?People are searching for a new job. I wouldn?t say they were angry or sad about what?s happened.

?They?re just getting on with it and trying to get other work.

The Middlebrook site has also been closed.

?Customers have still been arriving here to see if any stock is left, but the shop finished trading on Sunday and now we?re just clearing out the remaining bits and tidying up.?

One former customer said: ?It?s a shame that Comet has gone. It was a decent shop. I bought things there last Christmas and they were well priced. I think the other electrical stores will put up their prices now because there?s less competition.?

Middlebrook-based Appliances Online submitted a seven-figure bid to buy Comet?s website business last month.

No one from the firm was available for comment yesterday. Appliances Online is owned by DRL and was founded by Bolton entrepreneur John Roberts in 2000.

Deloitte is handling Comet?s administration.

Source: http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/districtnews/10116319.60_jobs_go_as_Comet_closes/?ref=rss

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