Last day of trading TODAY for high street chain as shops set to disappear forever | The Sun

SHOPPERS have just hours left to shop at at a popular high street retailer as it prepares to close its doors forever.

Paperchase fans have been rushing to bag bargains in its final closing down sale.

Dozens of branches of the stationery store's branches closed over the past few weeks.

Now Paperchase is preparing to shut forever as it hosts its final day of trading today, April 3.

Shoppers can bag 80% off all stock in person since the stationer's website already closed.

The sale began as a 20% discount, which increased to 50% then 70% and finally 80% off all products.

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You can nab items such as lined notebooks which were once £8 for £1.60 and all cards are now selling for 10p each.

The closure comes after the chain collapsed into administration in January and supermarket giant Tesco swooped in to buy the brand.

However, no shops have been saved so you'll have to say your goodbyes today.

There are 38 branches which still appear to be trading today:

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• Bath
• Birmingham Grand Central
• Birmingham New St
• Bishopsgate
• Byres Road
• Cheapside
• Cheshire Oaks 
• Cribbs Causeway
• Edinburgh 
• Guernsey
• Guildford
• Harrogate
• Hitchin
• Islington
• Jersey
• Kings Cross Station 
• Kingston 
• Leamington Spa
• Leeds Commercial Street
• Leicester 
• London Bridge
• Manchester
• Metro Centre
• Newcastle
• Northcote Road
• Oxford
• Plymouth 
• Ringwood
• Sheffield
• Southampton 
• Staines
• St Albans
• St Pancras Circle
• Taunton 
• Tunbridge Wells
• Victoria Station 
• Waterloo Station 
• York

Below is a full list of Paperchase stores that have already closed, including concessions:

• Altrincham
• Arnotts
• Basingstoke
• Battersea
• Belfast
• Berkhamsted
• Beverley
• Bury
• Bury St Edmunds
• Birmingham Selfridges
• Bishops Stortford
• Brighton
• Cambridge
• Canterbury 
• Cardiff St Davids
• Chelmsford
• Chester
• Chichester
• Chiswick
• Colchester
• Derby 
• Dundee
• Dundrum
• Durham 
• Edinburgh Moringside
• Exeter
• Finchley Road
• Forestside
• Glasgow Buchanan
• Henley on Thames
• Hereford
• Lakeside
• Lewes
• Lincoln
• Maidstone 
• Marble Arch
• Meadowhall
• Merry Hill 
• Newbury
• Nottingham 
• Perth
• Peterborough
• Putney 
• Rushdean Lakes
• Sailsbury
• Sevenoaks
• Silverburn
• Solihull 
• St Andrews
• Street Outlet
• St Pancras Station
• Swindon 
• Telford
• Trafford Centre Selfridges
• Walton on Thames
• Wandsworth
• Watford
• Wattington
• Wimbledon 
• Winchester
• Windsor
• Whiteley Village
• White Rose, Leeds
• Woking
• Worcester
• York Outlet
• Next Aintree
• Next Birmingham Junction 9
• Next Bolton
• Next Bournemouth
• Next Camberley
• Next Crawley
• Next Enfield
• Next Gloucester
• Next Handforth Dean 
• Next Hanley 
• Next Ipswich 
• Next Kirkcaldy 
• Next London Colney 
• Next Luton 
• Next Maidstone 
• Next Manchester Arndale
• Next Norwich 
• Next Oxford Street
• Next Plymouth
• Next Selly Oak
• Next Shoreham 
• Next Solihull 
• Next Straiton 
• Next Wolverhamptom 
• Next York 

All concession stands in Next and Selfridges stores have closed as well.

You can still use the store locator on the Paperchase website to check where your closest one is.

But in a message to shoppers it says: "All of our stores will be closed soon, our last day of trade is 3rd April."

Remember you'll still be able to spot the brand in Tesco when it eventually arrives in stores.

Administrators failed to find a buyer for the business that included shops too.

The closures accompany roughly 900 redundancies across the brand.

Paperchase opened its first store in 1968 in Kensington, London.

It comes as nearly 15,000 jobs have been axed since the start of the year as dozens of retailers collapsed or were restructured.

M&Co, M&S and Clintons are among retailers affected by the closures and a few will even be disappearing this week.

For example the Clintons in Fife is going on April 8 and M&S has its Linthorpe Road branch in Middlesbrough shutting down the week after on April 15.

It's a branch that first opened more than 100 years ago so it's quite a historic event.

However, M&S is looking to open 104 more Foodhalls over the same period, so it's not all bad news.

Many of the shops are expected to reopen in the same area or location as those earmarked for closure.

In terms of other closures H&M has also announced a couple – there will be at least two closures in Hartlepool and Isle of Wight lined up, but no dates are confirmed yet.

Wetherspoon also has 32 pubs up for sale – 13 of which are currently under offer, but they're not confirmed as closing.

This is because a buyer has presented an offer that is being considered by the seller.

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But it means the sale isn't guaranteed, and it could still remain open if it doesn't complete.

You can find a full list of stores closing this month in our guide.

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