Putting Asda’s Price Guarantee to the test – in an ex-Netto Asda Supermarket
Judging from the number of hits – currently 900+, and rising – many of you enjoyed my recent illustrated post about Asda’s Old Fold Road...
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Conversion of North Shields Netto to Asda set to begin
I paid my first visit to an ex-Netto Asda Supermarket last weekend – more of which in the coming days – but meanwhile the process...
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Poundstretcher takes over Llandudno Alworths after all
Many thanks to my North Wales contact, Dave Roberts, who has sent me a photo of the former Alworths store in Llandudno being converted into...
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Redruth: the Cornish town that lost its Woolies twice
In my last post I mentioned my February visit to Cornwall, writing about one of the county’s former Woolworths – in Launceston (store #812) –...
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Will UGO back? Checking out Britain’s newest supermarket chain
Since first meeting them at the UGO launch press conference back in January, it’s been a pleasure to develop a really good relationship with the...
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Haldanes not ruling out purchase of “great” Netto Birtley store
When Asda’s sale of 39 surplus Netto stores was announced a couple of weeks ago, I noted that Birtley – a small town close to...
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Morrisons to acquire Tamworth’s Netto store
The Netto store in my old hometown of Tamworth is one of 16 sites that Morrisons is set to acquire following Asda’s purchase of the Netto UK...
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Belper’s fine mix of supermarkets and indie retailers
Following on from my 2009 visit to Alfreton, Heanor and Ripley in Derbyshire, I was able to pay a fleeting visit this festive season to...
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Boyes takes over Bishop Auckland’s old Woolies – could more follow?
When I blogged about the remaining vacant Woolies stores in the North East a few days ago, I’d failed to spot that yet another is...
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Demolition underway – photos of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park today
In my blog post about Gateshead’s Get Carter car park this morning, I suggested that “…it seems hard to believe that the car park is...
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Demolition of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park starts today
Since it opened in 1969, Gateshead town centre’s Trinity Square car park has been many things to different people, but always impossible to ignore. To some, it has been an icon...
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Alworths lined up for non-Woolies site in Alloa?
Just a week after its first two Scottish stores opened in Forfar and Cupar, the variety store chain Alworths is now “recruiting for enthusiastic, customer focussed...
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Updates on Newcastle city centre’s new Tescos
Heavy overnight snow provided a good excuse to take a walk into Newcastle today, rather than trying to drive anywhere further afield. It was also...
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M&S’s gain is Morrisons’ loss
The news that the current boss of Morrisons, Marc Bolland, is to become the new Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer brings to an end...
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Durham – a rare blip in the Waitrose success story
By and large, Waitrose is very much in the habit of opening stores, rather than closing them – so went wrong with Waitrose’s now-closed Durham branch?
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How many former Woolworths can Graham visit in one day?
How about SIX? Stop one is High Street in Redcar, where the former Woolworths store has recently become a branch of the Yorkshire Trading Company....
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From charity shops to factory shops – the latest announcements on old Woolies sites
It looks like the pace of Woolworths stores finding new occupants may be picking up, with more than twenty new announcements since I last blogged...
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Does anyone else photograph Tescos?
Until I do write my first proper blog post, let’s at least cheer things up on the home page with some gratuitous Tesco shots. As...
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