O2 Shop in UK is Seeking to Enhance its Franchised Outlets

This time, O2 Shop is seeking for the transformation of its 82 shops in the United Kingdom in to franchise operations by the middle of coming year 2013. In this way, the shop will witness a huge increase in the total franchised outlets to about 200. This implies that Telefonica mobile network will no longer take the charge of more than 40% of O2 Shops in United Kingdom. Staffs of all the shops have expected to continue their job for some of the new business owners without suffering any type of losses in their employment.

According to the members of CWU i.e. Communication Workers Union, “You can consider the latest move of O2 Shops as one of the big gambles in the highly competitive sector of mobiles.” Other than this, Andy Kerr, general secretary of CWU commented, “Telefonica is one of the popular brands in the mobile sector. Because of this reason, franchise move of O2 Shop will destabilize entire retail network comprised of 450 shops and not only 82 shops affected because of announcements. Moreover, staffs of the companies are wondering about the security of their jobs and even about their future holds, as they are planning to enter in to busy-pre Christmas shopping period.”