After operating for less than a year, Samsung's largest retail store in London is closing. The Verge spotted tweets of the store's ongoing deconstruction today—Samsung couldn't even wait until the holiday shopping season was over.

The store, which only opened in April 2014, was premium retail space in one of Europe's biggest malls. While the biggest one is closing, Samsung still has nine other stores in the UK, which the company said it was committed to keeping open. Samsung's retail store idea was no doubt modeled after Apple's retail operation, which, by way of comparison, has 43 stores in the UK.

The move is the latest bad news that caps off an awful year for Samsung. Sales of its 2014 flagship, the Galaxy S5 , were 40 percent below what the company was expecting. Thanks to the lagging sales, in one quarter Samsung saw a 60 percent drop in profits from the previous year. Things are bad enough that many executives returned $2.9 million in bonuses due to the company's performance, and Samsung was even considering canning the head of its mobile division (but cooler heads prevailed).

The company hopes to turn things around in 2015, where it promised to slash 25 to 30 percent of the models from its massive 50+ smartphone lineup. Samsung will still be under pressure at the high-end from Apple's move into phablets, and it will have to deal with a ton of Chinese competitors like Xiaomi, Huawei, and Lenovo.