An announcement was then made by Deloitte that 160 UK stores would close.
All UK stores were closed by the end of the year.
The purchase price for the nine UK stores was approximately £630,000.
Blackwell's also announced that they plan to install the machine across their 60 UK stores.
The company closed all of its UK stores on 14 January 2012, due to poor financial results.
The UK store finally closed on Friday 19 October 2007.
All UK stores and online operations have now closed.
It remains the only UK store to have retained an individual identity.
A diet version is now being introduced in some UK stores.
The £6.7 billion acquisition "sent a ripple of fear through UK stores."