Poundland will be opening at Edmonton Green Shopping Centre two months after Wilko went bankrupt

The former Wilko shop at Edmonton Green Shopping Centre is set to reopen as a Poundland, the discount retailer has announced.

Edmonton Green was one of the 400 Wilko stores around the UK which closed after the company went bankrupt this summer. However, it is now one of 71 locations where Poundland has agreed to take on the lease of the vacant units.

The shop at Edmonton Green will now reopen as a Poundland this Saturday (4th) as the company works flat-out to convert dozens of stores around the country – with 75 new shops opening in total by the end of the year.

Poundland has made offers of employment to over 500 former Wilko staff. Austin Cooke, managing director said: “To open 75 stores in the space of a single quarter is nothing short of a super-human effort from every member of the Poundland team. To each and every one of them I say ‘thank you’.

“But we’re working at this pace because we’re on a mission–ambitious to grow, create jobs and serve new communities by opening shops customers and communities can be proud of.”

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