Cirencester’s ex-Woolworths: a window on the rise of discounters
I often talk about how the fate of ex-Woolworths stores provides a fascinating ‘window’ on the changing high street, and the ex-Woolies in Cirencester (store #394) –...
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Oops! Tesco’s Gateshead mailout sends customers to Poundland
Ahead of the Gateshead superstore’s closure on 22 April, Tesco has mailed details of its temporary store to local customers – but they may have...
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From textured berber to veggie burgers: new uses for Devon’s old Woolworths
With another shop-spotting visit to Devon scheduled for later this month, now seems like an opportune time to share the ex-Woolies photos that I took...
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As BHS arrives in Newcastle, G-Star Raw and Thorntons depart
While Newcastle’s BHS prepares for its imminent opening, new departures elsewhere in the city are set to open up other opportunities for incoming retailers. As...
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Revealed: frontage of Newcastle’s new BHS is unwrapped
As I suspected when I blogged last week, the scaffolding around Newcastle’s new BHS has now been taken down ahead of its opening in ten...
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Newcastle and Gateshead retail developments roundup
Back at the start of the year, I promised that 2012 was going to be an eventful year for Newcastle city centre in terms of...
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Historic Alnwick’s original Woolworths – and a modern-day successor in Wilkinson
In the same way as Houghton-le-Spring’s Woolworths was originally in a different location to where it ended up, I recently discovered that Alnwick, too, has...
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Poundworld to open second Cramlington store on 6 April
Hot on the heels of its new Express store in Redcar, which launched last month, the discount variety chain Poundworld is set to open another new...
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Twenty-one North East stores close immediately as Game collapses
Twenty-one Game and Gamestation shops in the North East are among the 277 stores that have closed immediately following Game Group’s collapse into administration this...
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Poundstretcher reveals new visual identity as it reopens ex-UGO stores
Poundstretcher, the discount variety store chain, has reopened the UGO stores that it acquired last month – and has seemingly unveiled a new logo at...
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Newcastle’s new BHS to open on 19 April
Newcastle’s new BHS store in Northumberland Street will open on 19 April, I can reveal. Work on site has been going on since last summer,...
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M&Co and the ex-Woolies in Sidmouth and Sherborne
In previous posts, I’ve noted the difficulty I have in finding time to blog about all the former Woolworths sites that I’ve visited – not a...
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Newcastle’s extended Primark takes shape
Whatever you might think about the rise of the fashion retailer Primark, there’s no disputing that it’s one of the big retail success stories right...
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Fascia treatment of Poundworld’s 2-in-1 Swindon store revealed
Many thanks to Soult’s Retail View reader Lee Sartin, who has sent in a picture of the dual-fascia Poundworld and Discount UK store that opened...
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The fragment of Uniqlo that lives on in Coventry
Having opened its Coventry store on 20 September 2002, Uniqlo announced just six months later that it would be closing – but a trace of the shop remains.
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Metro Outlet takes over Middlesbrough’s TJ Hughes site, but ex-TJ’s elsewhere remain empty
Middlesbrough had some retail good news on Saturday, as a new store opened its doors in the town’s former TJ Hughes premises – following on...
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Poundworld confirms 1 March opening for Redcar ‘Express’ store
The single-price retailer Poundworld has confirmed that it will open a Poundworld Express store in Redcar this week – only the third store to launch as...
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Edinburgh Woollen Mill saves Peacocks, but ten North East stores close
Today’s announcement that Edinburgh Woollen Mill has bought fashion retailer Peacocks out of administration is very good news as far as the 6,000 saved jobs and 395 retained...
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Poundworld and Discount UK to open dual-fascia store in Swindon
Multi-price value retailer Discount UK is to open its 30th store, in Swindon, this week – under a dual fascia with its Yorkshire-based parent brand, Poundworld....
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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....
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