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Wilko administration ‘entirely avoidable,’ GMB says as 12,000 jobs at risk

THE collapse of high street giant Wilko was “entirely avoidable,” GMB warned today as 12,000 workers face redundancy.
The general union slammed poor management at the homeware retailer after Wilko boss Mark Jackson announced the chain had entered administration.
He claimed to have “left no stone unturned” in his attempts to save the firm, which has 400 shops across Britain and first began trading in 1930.
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