Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
The outside of Newcastle’s enlarged Primark is finally starting to gain its funky cladding, as the Northumberland Street store gets ready for its planned opening....
Read more....Newcastle city centre’s Co-op supermarket is to close down this month, bringing to an end nearly a century-and-a-half of Co-operative presence in Newgate Street. Posters in the windows...
Read more....While tearing around Barnsley and Hull visiting UGO supermarkets last month, I was pleased to be able to work in an unexpected ex-Woolworths. Not knowing Hull...
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After the loss of M&S and T&G, Whitley Bay gains B&M
November 24, 2009
Could Beales – or someone else – yet save Robbs?
May 18, 2010
