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Morrisons to acquire Tamworth’s Netto store
Morrisons 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 business. The stores are among 47 that the...
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Asda’s sale of surplus Netto stores: who gets what in the North East
Netto store in Gateshead As I blogged earlier, Asda’s acquisition of Netto’s UK business moved a step closer yesterday, with the news that it has reached agreement to sell most of those Netto stores...
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Haldanes pledges that UGO will be “the icing on the Netto cake”
UGO cake Following my recent post about Asda’s divestment of 39 surplus Netto stores, I had the pleasure of being invited to my first press conference last Friday, in Leeds. Appropriately held just a...
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Haldanes not ruling out purchase of “great” Netto Birtley store
Netto, Birtley (24 Jan 2011) 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 here, within the Borough of Gateshead – was...
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Will UGO back? Checking out Britain’s newest supermarket chain
Signage at UGO store, Eston (4 May 2011) 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 key people at...
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Store closures loom as indie grocer Haldanes calls in administrators
Haldanes logo The independent supermarket chain Haldanes looks set to become the latest retail casualty, after filing for an administration order today. In a statement this afternoon, Arthur Harris,...
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Work starts on converting Tyneside Netto stores to Asda Supermarkets
Netto, Old Fold Road, Gateshead (28 May 2010) Less than six months after the carve-up of the Netto estate was confirmed, the Danish supermarket fascia is well on its way to disappearing from the UK...
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Co-op returns to Birtley with purchase of Netto store
Netto, Birtley (24 Jan 2011) The Co-operative Group has announced today that it is to acquire the Netto store in Birtley, Gateshead – one of the six remaining sites that Asda is required to divest...
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Harris: “We believe, long term, UGO has a good future”
UGO offers leaflet Interview headlines: UGO stores need to “trade better” but are not “at danger level” IT and ordering issues will be addressed More UGO stores planned – new Leeds store “in...
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Tamworth’s ex-Netto Morrisons is small but (almost) perfectly formed
Promotion for Tamworth's new Morrisons (17 Jun 2011) With a visit to an ex-Netto UGO in the bag, and one to an ex-Netto Asda in the offing, it seemed only fair to check out an ex-Netto Morrisons while...
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Conversion of North Shields Netto to Asda set to begin
Notice at Netto North Shields (8 Aug 2011) I paid my first visit to an ex-Netto Asda Supermarket last weekend – more of which in the coming days – but meanwhile the process of converting 147 Netto...
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A tale of three Tyneside ex-Woolies – Jarrow, North Shields and Wallsend
St Clare's Hospice shop, Jarrow (8 Aug 2011) While Store Twenty One is about to take over the unoccupied part of South Shields’ former Woolies, the ex-Woolworths in Jarrow – already part-occupied by...
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From Netto to Asda – checking out the Gateshead store’s transformation
Interior of Asda Supermarket, Gateshead (8 Aug 2011) While some communities on Tyneside – among them North Shields and Wallsend – still have to wait a little longer for their Netto stores to be turned...
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Putting Asda’s Price Guarantee to the test – in an ex-Netto Asda Supermarket
Point-of-sale promotion of the Asda Price Guarantee Judging from the number of hits – currently 900+, and rising – many of you enjoyed my recent illustrated post about Asda’s Old Fold Road store in...
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A new UGO tour: positive signs as I go supermarket spotting in Barnsley and Hull
Signage at UGO Lundwood (11 Oct 2011) The emergence of UGO as Britain’s newest discount supermarket chain has been one of the most interesting retail launches of 2011 so far. Back in January, I...
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Heron Foods takes over Wallsend’s former Woolworths – 21 November opening...
Soon-to-be Heron Foods, Wallsend (15 Nov 2011) After much speculation, family-owned frozen food specialist Heron Foods has revealed itself as the new occupant of Wallsend’s former Woolworths store....
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Breaking news: Bakery Products acquires North East supermarket supplier...
Tindale & Stanton logo A family-run bakery and supermarket supplier based in County Durham has been saved from closure. Bakery Products Limited has acquired the assets and goodwill of Hobson Foods...
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Breaking news: Well-known chain set to snap up UGO stores and staff
UGO store, Eston (4 May 2011) The 20-strong chain of UGO supermarkets is to be snapped up by “a well-known and established brand name”, I understand. Subject to legals being completed within the next...
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Birtley’s ex-Netto Co-operative Food – shiny, but still a Co-op
The Co-operative Food, Birtley (28 Feb 2012) Travelling back from Chester-le-Street yesterday, I was finally able to visit – and do a shop in – The Co-operative Food store in Birtley, which opened back...
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Reflections on Spennymoor High Street, 85 years to the day from Woolworths’...
Site of original Woolworths(?), High Street, Spennymoor (5 Jan 2012) I suspect it will have passed the townsfolk by, but today – 13 August – is the 85th anniversary of Woolworths opening in the County...
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