The last remaining Woolworths stores will close their doors for the final time at the end of trading today and the move will see the loss of three more stores in the region.

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The final 200 stores, including those in Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Newtown, were due to close yesterday but administrator Deloitte gave the chain a reprieve until today to shift the remaining stock and allow final arrangements to be made. 

The closures bring to an end a massive clearance sale which saw stock and even the stores’ fixtures and fittings sold off. 

The collapse leaves 27,000 workers out of work and the firm’s 807 stores have been closing throughout the final weeks of December.

Stores have already closed in Wellington, Newport, Telford Town Centre, Shrewsbury, Welshpool, Oswestry and Market Drayton.

Chris Batham, store team leader at the Bridgnorth said the store would be closing at 5.30pm today.

He said: “Most staff will be in today and the atmosphere is not too bad but I am sad and it can only get worse.”

One of the managers at the Ludlow outlet confirmed the shop was also due to close at 5.30pm. 

Deloitte would not confirm how much money has been raised by the stock sale but many stores have been emptied. 

It has held talks with other retailers to take on the leases of about 300 Woolworths stores.