Comments on: Good shop, bad shop – a lunchtime jaunt in Newcastle city centre

By: Soult's Retail View » Newcastle’s Co-op food hall to ‘cease trading’ on 31 December

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:09:43 +0000

[...] Newgate Street Co-op has failed to keep up. Even two years ago, I described the rump supermarket as feeling “unloved and behind the times”, noting the “bored-looking staff, long queues (as usual), and numerous broken light fittings [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Initial reactions to the new St Andrew’s Way mall at Eldon Square

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:18:03 +0000

[...] I’ve remarked before, a successful Tesco store probably does not bode well for the nearby Co-op food hall. However, there can surely be no better opportunity than now for the whole of the former Co-op [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Newcastle gets Hollister, Tesco Express, new Next

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:26:40 +0000

[...] known for some time that Tesco Metro is coming to the Eldon Square extension; now it seems that a Tesco Express is [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Photos from the 90s – Sheffield’s Castle House Co-op department store

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:04:05 +0000

[...] like the former Newcastle Co-op department store, where the old food hall remains in just a small part of an otherwise vacated building, I understand that the food floor in [...]