THE Co-operative Group has announced plans to close or sell all of its 36 department stores by February 2007. Ten stores – seven of them in Scotland – will be closed in February next year, but many of the remaining 26 could be sold as going concerns to Peterborough-based Anglia Co-op, which has already acquired some department stores from United Co-operatives. Negotiations with Anglia are still ongoing and a decision on which outlets the society will acquire is expected in the next ...