Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
As someone with an appetite for retail news stories, I like to occasionally visit Newcastle City Council’s planning applications website. Often, planning applications are where interesting...
Read more....…and it’s going to be in Cosham, a northern suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Due to open in February, this will be the first new Alworths...
Read more....I’m ashamed to say that in more than a decade of living in the North East, I’d never – until yesterday – paid a proper...
Read more....A few interesting titbits of Newcastle retail news ahead of the opening of Eldon Square South – St Andrew’s Way – on 16 February. Anchored...
Read more....I happened to be in Gosforth yesterday evening (paying a visit to the very good Loch Fyne restaurant), so used my mobile to capture a shot...
Read more....A few days ago, in talking about the closure of the adjacent Oil & Vinegar store, I referred to the Eldon Square Waitrose shop as...
Read more....Just a quick post this evening, but I wanted to flag up a well-written and interesting article by Kiran Stacey in yesterday’s Financial Times, entitled “The...
Read more....After work, I trudged through the snow to the delightful Eldon Square Waitrose this evening, though not before giving the store a call to check that...
Read more....(UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, it’s been confirmed that the A&S Discount building was indeed Byker’s original Woolworths location, from 1927 until 1954) Here’s a...
Read more....I’m always delighted when people comment on my blog posts, and a recent contribution from Gareth Hill has proved particularly interesting in shedding light on the history...
Read more....…That was the theme of Woolworths’ 1998 Christmas TV advertisement, in the heady, Tellytubby days when, as the ad reminds us, everyone wanted a Talking Po....
Read more....It’s always fun to find links between my current home of Tyneside and my previous one of Staffordshire – Tamworth playing Gateshead in the Blue...
Read more....Happy New Year to you! You may recall that back in August last year (referring to 2009 as ‘last year’ is bound to take some...
Read more....Given that I’ve only been blogging since July, I was surprised and a little humbled to see that the global media intelligence company Cision has...
Read more....Back in September, you might recall me trumpeting the fact that I’d visited six old Woolworths in a day. Today, however, I must confess to visiting...
Read more....Visiting Whitley Bay in North Tyneside today, it was apparent that while there ARE indeed a lot of empty shops – as blogged about previously...
Read more....Delighted to see from BBC News that Tyneside’s retail offer is sufficiently exciting to attract a festive shopping visit from 1,000 Faroe Islands residents! Surely...
Read more....Mixed fortunes in the news today for two specialist retailers that both have a presence at Team Valley Retail World in Gateshead – HobbyCraft and Borders. Privately-owned HobbyCraft,...
Read more....After Parts 1 and 2 of my former Woolworths photo gallery, it’s time to finish up – at least for the moment – with some more shots...
Read more....Barely a day or two after writing about Whitley Bay Woolworths still being empty, I now read that it’s going to become a B&M Bargains store...
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Edinburgh Woollen Mill saves Peacocks, but ten North East stores close
February 22, 2012
Poundworld to open second Cramlington store on 6 April
April 3, 2012
Photo update: Gateshead Peacocks prepares for reopening
June 21, 2012
