Tagged: Nuneaton

Co-op department store, Derby (10 Nov 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Co-operatives / Department Stores / Merchandising / Property / Retail History

January 21, 2013

As eight Midlands Co-op department stores face closure, what might the future hold?

Midlands Co-op has become the latest co-operative society to exit non-food, with its announcement today that eight Fashion & Home department stores are to close within...

Poundstretcher and UGO, Nuneaton (7 Feb 2012). Photograph by Graham Soult

Brands / Property / Retail Parks / Supermarkets / Variety Stores / Woolworths

February 19, 2012

How Poundstretcher can learn a thing or two from its acquired UGO stores

After I first revealed that UGO, the fledgling supermarket chain, was set to be sold, there was understandably plenty of speculation about who the buyer was....

Newcastle's TJ Hughes (8 Aug 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Department Stores / Property / Retail History / Woolworths

August 13, 2011

Newcastle’s TJ Hughes is saved – but Middlesbrough’s is to close within days

There was good news for Newcastle city centre earlier this week, with the announcement that the TJ Hughes store in Grainger Street had been sold,...

Former Woolworths, Coalville (24 Aug 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Market Towns / Property / Woolworths

November 2, 2010

One bus ticket – 11 former Midlands Woolies

Regular readers of Soult’s Retail View will know that I have something of a penchant for visiting lots of old Woolworths stores in a short...