Jessops customers are certainly not happy at the moment. That’s because all of their 187 stores will be closing this month, leaving customers in the lurch. Customers were recently trying to figure out how to reclaim as much as £800,000 that they spent on gift vouchers recently.
Administrators were in the stores last week trying to make sure that all equipment that was brought in by customers was repaired and that all stock was returned to suppliers. Rob Hunt, the joint administrator and PwC partner said the outstanding amount of gift vouchers was a “huge amount of money.”
The 1370 store staff will now be redundant and customers will have to find a different location for their camera needs. Administrators are hoping to sell their Jessops name to an online operator, as the retailer derived as much as a third of its sales from the internet.