{"id":3173,"date":"2026-02-02T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:33:16","slug":"major-uk-retailer-to-close-all-standalone-stores-after-entering-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"Major UK retailer to close all standalone stores after entering administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-truly-is-the-end-of-an-era\">It truly is the end of an era.<\/h2>\n<p>Another UK retailer is set to close their doors.<\/p>\n<p>Once a staple on every high street in the country, this shop\u2019s popularity has gradually eroded over the past decade to the point where their stores now make a rare sight.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The shop in question is the once legendary: GAME.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Last week, the company filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators, making this the second time they have fallen into administration since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Game Business reports that Frasers Group, who own GAME, have now decided to close the chain\u2019s final remaining standalone stores.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed that there are only three left, in Dudley, Lancaster, and Sutton. <\/p>\n<p>GAME\u2019s managing director, Nick Arran, is also leaving the company after nine years.<\/p>\n<p>While this certainly does mark the end of an era for many of us who used to visit GAME on a regular basis, the store will live on online.<\/p>\n<p>After the fall of Gamestation in 2012, and now the fall of GAME, the biggest UK games retailer left on the high street is CeX which currently has around 390 stores across the UK and over 600 worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category -->\n            <\/div>\n<p>#Major #retailer #close #standalone #stores #entering #administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It truly is the end of an era. Another UK retailer is set to close their doors. Once a staple on every high street in the country, this shop\u2019s popularity has gradually eroded over the past decade to the point where their stores now make a rare sight. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2380,2510,2802,1588,2384,2801,1631],"class_list":{"0":"post-3173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-administration","9":"tag-close","10":"tag-entering","11":"tag-major","12":"tag-retailer","13":"tag-standalone","14":"tag-stores"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}