CZC.cz quietly closed its stores – News

Allegro admitted plans to close branches in early September, responding to a direct question from news server Novinky.cz. At that time, however, representatives of the Polish company did not reveal when this should happen.

As a rule, customers learned about the closing of the original branches only on Thursday, when they went to pick up their orders. “Do you realize that you may be the last customer of the CZC brick-and-mortar in history? ” With these words, a pair of sellers said goodbye on Thursday night in the old housing heating plant in Hájy, where the main branch of CZC.cz has been for more than twenty years.

Allegro now informs only on the original CZC.cz website about the possibility of collection in CZC partner stores. However, their search engine has been down since Thursday, so users will not know where they are located. And even after entering the exact address.

According to an earlier announcement, dozens of partnership branches should remain operational. “Most CZC.cz brick-and-mortar stores, especially 41 of our CZC.cz franchise stores, will continue to operate,” Allegro Group spokesman Marcin Gruszka told Novinkám earlier.

“The announced step, including the decision to close nine of CZC.cz’s own stores, is in line with our goal of maintaining a competitive and stable business,” he said in response to question from Novinek Gruzska.

The original e-shop CZC.cz ceased to exist this week Thursday. At the same time, it was full of advice from experienced users in discussion forums, articles from the editors, and user reviews. Over the years, it has also become a source of historical information for hardware collectors about discontinued products. But there was nothing left of it.

Instead, the CZC.cz website now presents the same offer as the Polish market, where the famous e-shop was once moved. If customers need to access their order history or resolve complaints or products, they will no longer receive the appropriate products on Allegra. They need to go to the special FAQ page that the Polish marketplace has prepared for this.

The tab on the Polish market has little to do with the original CZC.cz e-shop, except for the brand. “Although we are aware that we will not be able to transfer all the functions provided by the CZC.cz e-shop for technical reasons, we are determined to develop the new CZC shop on the Allegro platform in the long term . We believe that these measures will bring well-deserved stability and new customers to CZC,” the Polish market center said in a statement.

The same fate should now meet the Internet shopping mall Mall.cz, which Allegro bought together with CZC.cz. However, representatives of the Polish market have not yet specified when the Mall will be closed.

According to HN, the Mall e-shop earned 4.9 billion crowns in the Czech Republic last year, and added another 1.7 billion crowns from foreign sales. We served more than two million customers, processing 3.5 million orders with them. According to HN, he will not be involved in its management in the future. The year 2023 was the last year when Allegro disclosed the figures for individual stores in the annual report – on January 1 this year, the Czech stores were merged under Allegro Retail and the data will be for hidden in the structure of the new material. company, the newspaper recalled.

In November 2021, Allegro bought WEDO and Mall Group, which also includes the CZC.cz store, from the groups PPF, EC Investments Daniel Křetínský and Rockaway Capital Jakub Havrlant. The volume of the transaction amounted to approximately 23 billion crowns in turnover, while the value of the book was higher than 21 billion.

Already in 2022, just a few months after the last takeover of the new gains, however Allegro recorded a non-cash losswhen he reassessed the book value of Malla and WEDO and reduced ee by 57 percent, ie by about 12 billion crowns.

Over the years, the online store CZC.cz was considered the biggest competitor of Alza, which is the largest online retailer in the Czech Republic. He built an e-shop and his image on this, when he appeared as number two on the electronic market. “We may be number two, but we dominate electronics as the first,” CZC.cz ads said.