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The Silverlink Shopping Park is a retail park in North Tyneside, England containing more than 20 stores with retail accommodation of 208,000 square feet (19,300 m 2). [2] It was developed by the Crown Estate, has 927 car parking spaces, and has an annual footfall of 7.2 million. [1]
In 1984, Currys was taken over by Dixons (another electrical products retail chain, now Currys plc) but maintained its separate brand identity. In April 2006, Dixons Stores Group announced that its Dixons shops, except in Ireland and in duty-free areas in airports, would be rebranded as Currys.digital [6] (later changed to Currys Digital). In ...
On 3 April 2020, the company permanently closed 531 stand-alone Carphone Warehouse stores that were solely focused on telephone devices. Subsequently, 3,000 job positions related to the affected stores were cut. According to the firm, the reason behind the closure of the stores was the online shift of customers and a lesser extent of phone ...
In March 2020, the company announced that they would be closing all 531 stand-alone UK stores the following month, with sales operations continuing within co-located "shops within shops" at Currys PC World stores and through the website. [28] [3] It was said that this measure was a result of the changing mobile market. [3]
In the United Kingdom, the company operated Currys, Currys Digital, PC World (with stores increasingly dual-branded 'Currys PC World'), Dixons Travel and its service brand Knowhow. At the time of the merger in 2014, Dixons Retail had 530 outlets in the United Kingdom and Ireland and 322 in Northern Europe.
Some stores might have reduced hours on other major holidays. All malls and department stores, as well as most other stores remain open longer hours between Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas Eve for Christmas and holiday shopping. Many are open until 11 p.m. (23:00), and a few even longer.
PC World's website was merged into Currys in July 2019, resulting in the end of PC World as the separate retailer. Dixons Carphone announced they will rebrand as Currys plc in September 2021, dropping the PC World from the Currys name. The change also replaced Team Knowhow and Carphone Warehouse brands within the existing Currys brand. This ...
Shopping centres are open on Sundays with a later opening time (11:00 onwards) and closing time between 18:00-20:00. Supermarkets, convenience stores and petrol stations are open longer hours than other shops on Sundays, typically from early morning (06:00-10:00) to late evening (20:00-00:00).