A few months ago, I was in Grimsby and decided to do a bit of shopping at their branch of Tesco Extra.

I overheard a conversation between a customer and member of staff mentioning that the store was originally built to be a Big W Woolworths store in 2004, and Woolworths actually got as far as putting the signage up and a coming soon sign in the car park entrance, but then abandoned the project, and then the following year, Tesco took the building and opened the Grimsby branch of Tesco Extra there.

Any stories like this about any shops that never were in your area?