Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
Back in April I blogged about the apparent location of Alnwick’s original Woolworths, where the chain traded for the first fifteen years of its 55-year...
Read more....Through both my work at CannySites.com and my blogging, I get to see an awful lot of independent retailers’ websites, including the good, the bad...
Read more....Since Wilkinson, the family-owned hardware and variety chain, quietly launched its new logo and store format over three years ago, the refreshed look seems to have...
Read more....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...
Read more....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...
Read more....The hazard of doing so much travelling around interesting towns is that I end up with more retail-related photographs – and topics to blog about...
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....There have been a few more announcements of new occupants for old Woolworths stores over the last couple of weeks: Alnwick: M&Co – full story...
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Work on new Metrocentre Primark well underway
26 Mar, 2011
Cumbria’s 100% hit rate of new Woolies tenants
5 Nov, 2010
10 Feb, 2010
After the loss of M&S and T&G, Whitley Bay gains B&M
24 Nov, 2009
