Wilko employee said their final goodbyes with a dance performed to the tune of “So Long, Farewell” following the collapse of the chain last month. Hayley Burrows, 37, took part in the video along with seven colleagues after their very last customer left their shop.
The video shows the Wilko workers, some in uniform, take their final bows as they bid farewell to the store that had become their “second family”. Hayley’s manager proposed the idea the same day after he had seen other stores do the same thing.
Hayley’s shop in Minstergate, Thetford, Norfolk had been open since 2008 and home to some of her colleagues for a decade. Hayley herself was about to celebrate her eighth anniversary when the shop shut its doors.
Hayley said: “It’s an important part of the community. Some people have been in the company for decades. I know it sounds silly but my colleagues really are like family. One ex-colleague came back and put her uniform on again just to say goodbye with us.”