Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
The boss of Mountain Warehouse has told Soult’s Retail View that the chain plans to open a new, bigger store in Carlisle – despite its current store in Scotch...
Read more....Hexham’s Millets store in Fore Street is to close on 21 September, after trading in the town for seven years. Though the Hexham Courant broke...
Read more....If you ever needed proof that the present-day high street is about winners and losers rather than the general decline that the media would have...
Read more....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) –...
Read more....One of the few empty shops in Hexham will soon be occupied again, with Poundland set to move into the former Heron Foods site in Priestpopple....
Read more....Having visited and photographed nearly 150 ex-Woolworths sites in the last three years (including 17 in the last week alone) – 50 of which are yet...
Read more....Visiting Hexham on New Year’s Day, I was interested to see that a new branch of Mountain Warehouse had sprung up since I was previously...
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The ghosts of Washington’s former Woolworths
June 22, 2010
Co-op returns to Birtley with purchase of Netto store
June 23, 2011
