Staff at the company’s Glasgow Fort branch were informed last week that their site would be closing down, which will result in a total of 17 job losses.

Eight of the stores 25 staff members have been given the opportunity to relocate to the retailer’s other stores.

Four will move to Braehead, whilst a further two will transfer to the Edinburgh store at Hermiston Gait. The others are at risk of being made redundant.

However, store boss Anna Litska insists workers at the new store in Renfrew have nothing to fear, with plans for further expansion across the country already under way.

She said: “The company is doing well with other stores.

“We plan to open another two stores elsewhere.

“It is just unfortunate that this store is not doing as well as we would have hoped.” The Braehead store became the French retailer’s 16th store in the UK when it opened on Wednesday, July 2. This followed on from the opening of a store in Oxford at the end of April, where two members of the Fort staff will also be relocating to upon the store’s closure.

The Fort store became Decathlon’s first in Scotland when it opened its doors in 2009, but Litska explained that sales figures meant it wasn’t economical to extend the store’s lease.

Litska added: “We had a five year lease on the current property (Glasgow Fort), which runs out on January 31.

“If we were to sign another lease it would have had to be a ten-year agreement.

“When we looked at sales figures it simply didn’t make sense for us to do that.”