WESTGATE department store in Watford town centre is to close down after just two years of trading.
The High Street-based store, which sells everything from hair dryers to holidays, will shut its doors to customers for good on Sunday, December 21.
Talks are now taking place with trade union representatives over potential job losses.
The Anglia Regional Co-operative Society, which owns the Westgate chain, said it would consider individual requests for voluntary redundancy.
Chief executive Neil Double said the store had been "under-performing" since it opened in 2001 because of poor sales, low profits and high leasing costs.
He stressed the closure had nothing to do with the staff, who were to be congratulated for their "hard work, commitment and loyalty"
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