TG Jones, Lloyds Bank, B&M, Typo and TK Maxx are among the brands that closed UK stores in October 2026, with further closures scheduled for November. Rising cost pressures and changing footfall patterns have driven the wave of high street shutdowns.
TG Jones closes 22 sites
Stationery chain TG Jones shut 22 branches in October, including sites in York, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bishop's Stortford, Bury St Edmunds, Inverness, Malvern, Truro, Maldon, Melton Mowbray, Bradford, Wickford, Bridgnorth, Hythe, Pinner, Rickmansworth, Marlborough, West Wickham, Ormskirk, Orpington, and Droitwich. The closures were part of a 150-store restructuring plan that removes in-store Post Office counters from town centres across the country.
Lloyds Bank and other closures
Lloyds Bank closed several standalone branches in October, including sites in Gateshead, Devizes, Widnes, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Llandudno, Braintree, Buxton and Leamington Spa, with more closures due in November. B&M is set to close its 20,000-square-foot store on County Road, Walton, Liverpool, on Friday, November 6, due to local estate consolidation, with all staff redeployed to nearby stores and no redundancies anticipated.
TK Maxx will vacate its long-standing site in Worthing's Montague Centre on Sunday, November 8, before relocating four days later to a former Poundland unit on Montague Street. Typo closed its sole outlet in Eldon Square, Newcastle, on October 9, following parent company Cotton On Group's announcement of a complete withdrawal from the UK by early 2027. Typo stores in Westfield Stratford, Bluewater, Cambridge, Meadowhall, Canterbury and the Gateshead Metrocentre will remain trading temporarily through autumn and Christmas before shutting ahead of the 2027 exit deadline.
Retail pressures persist
Professor Joshua Bamfield, director of the Centre for Retail Research, commented on the wave of closures: "The problems of changed customer shopping habits, inflation, rising energy costs, rents and business rates have continued and forced many retailers to cut back even more strongly."
