Online retailer, Shop Direct plans to close its distribution centres in Greater Manchester

Online retailer Shop Direct, which owns Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com will close its distribution centres in Shaw, Little Hulton and Raven in Greater Manchester.

It does, however, plan to build a new warehouse in the East Midlands employing 500 people, but said redundancies were likely putting nearly 2,000 jobs at risk.

The new site will be fully-automated, which Shop Direct said would allow it to process more orders and reduce the time it takes to get products to customers.

According to Shop Direct, its sales climbed 5.6% last year to £1.93bn.

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