After the recent heavy slagging off that DSG received here, perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised to read this:
"Dixons Stores Group (DSG) is closing more than 100 High Street stores after poor trading.
In an update released before the London stock market opened this morning the retail chain revealed slightly improved group trading, but said Dixons had performed particularly badly. As a result the chain will shut
106 shops within the next three months. Some staff will be found jobs elsewhere in the group. DSG runs Currys, Dixons, PC World and the Link. It also runs five brands in the Nordic region, 23 PC City stores in France, Italy and Spain and stores in Hungary and the Czech Republic."More at
Mind, I can't see why you need more than a few square feet of kiosk and/or a web site to sell extended warranties - and that seems to be where they used to make their profit.
What an amazing effect for just one newsgroup!