Woolies photo updates from South Shields, Wallsend, Jarrow and North Shields
While out and about on my recent travels, I’ve revisited – often just in passing – some of the former Tyneside Woolies sites that I’ve...
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Back to Billingham
Regular readers of this blog will be pleased to hear that I went back to Billingham yesterday, following my earlier underwhelming visit, back in June. The homogeneity...
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Bishop Auckland Boyes to open doors on 19 November
Boyes, the Scarborough-based variety retailer, has revealed that its latest store – in Bishop Auckland’s old Woolies premises – will open for business on Friday 19...
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“Major value fashion anchor” for MetroCentre Woolies site
MetroCentre’s empty Woolworths site is poised to get a new occupant, according to the mall’s majority owners, and is set to be trading by the middle...
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Cumbria’s 100% hit rate of new Woolies tenants
In between touring the East Midlands, travelling up to Berwick, and stopping off in Horley on my way out the country, I also found time this...
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Eth-alworth Austin
As variety chain Alworths celebrates its first birthday today, the opening of stores in Newark and Maidenhead has now been confirmed for later this month –...
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Hotel Chocolat comes to Newcastle
Upmarket chocolate specialist Hotel Chocolat is to open a store in Newcastle city centre, it has been revealed – its most northerly standalone shop to...
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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...
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New Alworths stores for Newark and Maidenhead
‘Son of Woolies’ chain Alworths has had a quiet spell since opening a flurry of stores (in Llandudno, Newhaven and Hertford) at the end of...
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From Macs to Maxx – three busy days for Tyneside retail
Returning home after a two-week holiday in Montenegro (more of which in due course), it seems like quite a lot has been happening within Tyneside’s retail scene...
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Boyes takes over Bishop Auckland’s old Woolies – could more follow?
When I blogged about the remaining vacant Woolies stores in the North East a few days ago, I’d failed to spot that yet another is...
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Clas Ohlson heads to CSC-owned centres in Cardiff and Norwich
I’m not sure whether Clas Ohlson’s people are reading this blog, or whether – more likely – the obvious locations for new UK stores are fairly easy...
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Robbs transformation is un-Beale-ievable
Less than three months after acquiring Robbs of Hexham, indie department store operator Beales has wasted no time at all in sprucing up the store...
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Visiting Sutton Coldfield’s former Woolies – one of 300 still empty across the UK
On Monday – the day that The Local Data Company published new figures on the number of vacant Woolies sites remaining across the UK – I...
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Stockton’s original Woolies – and the current state of the town’s High Street
Having missed Stockton-on-Tees’ original Woolworths when I first visited the town nearly a year ago, I’ve been keen to go back and capture a photograph of...
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Confirmed: Newcastle’s Green Market to close in January
Since I broke the story, in January, official confirmation of the closure of Newcastle’s Green Market at High Friars has been rather slow in coming. Even back...
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Peacocks flies into Tamworth’s Ankerside centre
I was interested to find out a few days ago that the fashion retailer Peacocks will soon be opening a store in my old home town of Tamworth,...
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Newcastle city centre updates – Currys, Cotswold and Clinton’s
Heading into Newcastle today for a much-needed haircut, I had my usual wander around to see what was happening, retail property-wise. In Northumberland Street, the...
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Newhaven in East Sussex set to be the next Alworths stop
The BT Phone Book is now listing an Alworths store at 14 High Street in Newhaven, East Sussex – the town’s former Woolworths unit. There...
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Wedded to attention to detail
One of the consequences of the economic downturn and the resulting increase in vacant shops has been the need for innovative mitigating measures – whether that’s...
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