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Time for a trip down memory lane
starry_rune
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How many of you can remember these shops / names?
Safeway
http://www.deansfamily.com/safeway/safeway%20logo.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbFl2ln4SY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PO47gCL-7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbjTzBdUuc
Presto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smeQsutt1E
WM Lows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkUaaFAxPE
this brilliant paint ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQe1y65Llw
Findus Lean Cuisine - then 3 shops join forces
https://youtu.be/8EtU36Im0kw?t=51s
KwikSave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z270ZwJyi_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJlK4emRw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg3i4Qr3YFA
Scotch video tapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffa1E9k3H4k
Gateway and Somerfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzYlNuY2v4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gqCHz_NgwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjEfTLiS_M
Bejam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seCdWIhv9Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIfbC1GfiU
food giant (usa but maybe uk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SKRQ_nB2FM
Wimpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrPatcq94_4
woolco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolco
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12101008.Shoprite_makes_costly_exit____15m_loss_on_Kwik_Save_deal/
What would you add?
Safeway
http://www.deansfamily.com/safeway/safeway%20logo.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbFl2ln4SY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PO47gCL-7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbjTzBdUuc
Presto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smeQsutt1E
WM Lows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkUaaFAxPE
this brilliant paint ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQe1y65Llw
Findus Lean Cuisine - then 3 shops join forces
https://youtu.be/8EtU36Im0kw?t=51s
KwikSave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z270ZwJyi_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJlK4emRw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg3i4Qr3YFA
Scotch video tapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffa1E9k3H4k
Gateway and Somerfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzYlNuY2v4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gqCHz_NgwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjEfTLiS_M
Bejam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seCdWIhv9Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIfbC1GfiU
food giant (usa but maybe uk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SKRQ_nB2FM
Wimpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrPatcq94_4
woolco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolco
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12101008.Shoprite_makes_costly_exit____15m_loss_on_Kwik_Save_deal/
What would you add?
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Worked for Findus for a brief spell so I had better remember that one
Without watching wasn't it the Scotch video tapes that creepy little skeleton advertised?
Add to the list
Lipton's
Mad Harry's
Timothy Whites
Chelsea Girl
Elliotts shoe shops
I had a dream I was browsing in there last night looking for Berry Jelly Babies
I'm so old I can remember when Safeways were new and exotic!
I can go back as far as Fine Fare, Victor Value, International Stores, David Greig (nothing to do with Greggs, afaik) and a lovely high-end chain called Cullens.
Where I grew up, we had a supermarket called Caters that later became a Presto, but I'm not sure if it was a chain or an independent.
Fine Fare !!!!! I think that's what was Kwik Save before the birth of the latter. Gosh! Now that really is going back
Our Price
You can still see the Fine Fare logo on the wall here...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Talbot+Rd,+Blackpool+FY3+7AS/@53.8204384,-3.0503315,3a,75y,334.66h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgfjAs6ChVeBu9v4r3DMHcg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DgfjAs6ChVeBu9v4r3DMHcg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D100%26h%3D80%26yaw%3D344.38318%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x487b438753526061:0x8d488bf80bca8d27
Fine Fare
Laws (which became WM Low)
John Menzies
Virgin Megastore
Silver Screen
Music Zone
Me. I have a theory that they started down hill when they stopped making their brilliant Christmas tv ads.
Radio Rentals
Ratners (remember Gerald Ratner describing his own products - sh*t)
Edit: ooh got another one - does anyone remember Dayvilles? 57 flavours of ice cream.
Who misses Woolworths Pick n Mix?
Thank you. I now feel incredibly ancient.
Our local John Menzies only became a W H Smith about 10-12 years ago.
Anyone else remember Websters bookshops? They were taken over by Waterstones, but were much better.
Our Safeway is now the awful Morrisons.
Army & Navy department stores.
Co-op department stores in the south east.
Cheesemans/Chiesmans? - I think this was a department store in south east London.
Littlewoods department store.
Freeman, Hardy & Willis shoe shops.
Dewhursts butchers.
Wasn't it shortly after that, the place went under?
Granways !!