COOP MAKES BIG decision: Kvickly closes

The retail life gets a marked notch down, after Coop now announces that Kvickly is closing. The popular department store you have lived in uncertainty for a long period of time, but the future is now settled and it will be off light and empty shelves.

The popular department store that closes is the department store in Slagelse.

The reason for the decision must be found in the competition authorities’ rejection of a planned sale earlier this year.

It writes the department store on their Facebook page According to TV 2 East

In March, authorities put an end to the sale of the store, and since then the future has hung in a thin thread. Now Coop has finally made the decision to close the business.

Department Store Manager Philip Hansen confirms the closure in both a press release and a post on the store’s Facebook page. Here he writes:

« Like several of you know, the future of Kvickly in Slagelse has been uncertain. Now there is clarification and unfortunately we must inform you that Kvickly Slagelse is closing. »

The notice goes on to say that all employees have already been informed of the closure and that the mood is naturally characterized by sadness. An accurate final date has not yet been determined, but the store will at the latest do the doors in May 31.

The decision sets the point for a store that over the years has been a permanent fixture in the everyday life of many bourgeois citizens both as a shopping place and workplace.

Now an era is going to its end, and the question is what is to fill the gap that the closure leaves behind in the city’s business life.

For many, in the coming time, not only will offer new shopping habits, but also to reunion with a change of retail.