Sports Direct shuts down stores after the social media outcry
The UK-based fitness and sporting equipment chain Sports Direct, owned by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group which also owns Evans Cycles, had instructed all its employees to remain at work despite a government-mandated shutdown of all non-essential businesses, claiming its fitness equipment qualified as an essential service. After widespread outrage on social media and a tweet to UK PM Boris Johnson, Sports Direct has finally closed all its stores.
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