AN Argos store is set to close its doors for the final time this weekend.

The store at Cleveland Retail Park, in Skippers Lane, Middlesbrough, will have its final day of trading on Saturday, June 4.

The closure is part of the firm’s plan to reduce the number of stores across the country.

The nearest alternative shops are at Middlehaven and at Middlesbrough Sainsbury’s.

An Argos spokesperson said: “Our Cleveland Retail Park store will close this weekend and colleagues are being offered opportunities to redeploy to alternative roles within Sainsbury’s.

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“Customers can continue to shop with us at our nearby stores, including our Argos Middlehaven store and our Argos within Middlesbrough Sainsbury’s.”

In 2020, Sainsbury's which owns Argos confirmed it was planning to close 420 standalone stores across the UK after plans to merge operations with stores-in-stores.

At the time, Sainsbury's said it planned to instead open 350 Argos stores within Sainsbury's supermarkets by March 2024.

In March this year, Sainsbury's confirmed more than half of all Argos stores are now located within Sainsbury's supermarkets.

Other stores to have closed in the region include Teesside Park in late 2020, and ones in Chester-le-Street and Bishop Auckland, which both closed in 2021.

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