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Presumably the "new" House of Fraser (i.e. Sports Direct) doesn't have a formal contract yet with XPO, so any work they would be executing would be on an "informal" basis, without any SLA, rate card. So XPO can choose to down tools, subject to some sort of arrangement to allow the stock to be extracted from the warehouse and taken elsewhere by Sports Direct based on legal precedent.

Obviously the speed that the administrators required the deal to be done didn't permit or encourage any of the bidders to negotiate a sensible ongoing/transitional arrangement with XPO. Or have the administrators make an arrangement to pay for the extraction of the stock and sale onwards to Sports Direct as a separate commercial agreement as part of the sale of the business.

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