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Post by Dougs on Jun 22, 2022 19:52:31 GMT
Don't forget Top Deck and Shandy Bass!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 22, 2022 19:52:51 GMT
I'm think I'm too young to remember Gateway.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jun 22, 2022 20:33:51 GMT
Gateway was renamed Somerfield in the mid 90's and then taken over by the Co-op..... I remember unfortunately  |
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Post by Dougs on Jun 22, 2022 20:35:10 GMT
Gitways was pretty low rent. Safeway's was positively posh in comparison.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jun 22, 2022 20:59:41 GMT
Yeh. For younger viewers, Asda,Sainsbury's and Morrisons had quite a takeover battle for Safeway's with Morrisons eventually clinching the deal.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 22, 2022 21:08:57 GMT
Disclaimer: I worked at Safeway's for years in school/uni holidays, weekends. It was bloody ace tbh. Pay was good back then for part time and I learned important skills like how to do the bare minimum and get away with it. (Although once I did get caught and my scary boss hauled me over the coals before school).
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 22, 2022 21:26:53 GMT
Work Colleague: "Where did you used to work before here?"
Me: "I was with Comet for almost a decade."
Work Colleague: "What's Comet?"
Me: "It was a national chain of electrical stores, that had been around for 75 years until it was taken over by the same asset-stripping vultures who ran MFI into the ground and then did the same to us, and while over 7000 of us lost our jobs and wondered just how bad the equally vulture-like administrators they appointed would screw us out of redundancy, the CEO of that shower of cunts was on a Carribean holiday."
Work Colleague: " ... ... ... What was MFI?"
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 22, 2022 21:42:50 GMT
That's what happened to Comet? I honestly never knew that was the circumstances surrounding its demise.
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Post by cubby on Jun 22, 2022 21:47:21 GMT
In another 75 years Comet will be back. It always comes back.
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Post by sport✅ on Jun 22, 2022 21:51:29 GMT
Ha, my first job in the UK was at MFI (IT dept). Nice bunch of folks on my floor.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 22, 2022 21:56:27 GMT
When it became known that those OpCapita bastards started trading without credit insurance, all the suppliers suddenly and quite understandably didn't want anything to do with the business anymore. Next thing you know "Deloitte have been appointed as Administrators" and there are security guards in your store to stop you from looting what remains of your own workplace.
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 22, 2022 21:58:02 GMT
Was Fine Fare pre-Safeway?
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Post by Nemesis on Jun 22, 2022 21:58:31 GMT
Popped on The Transporter as it’s now on D+.
It’s 20 years old now.
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Post by KD on Jun 22, 2022 22:22:05 GMT
We had a Leos supermarket.
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Post by Lizard on Jun 22, 2022 23:48:18 GMT
Budgens 4 lyfe.
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Post by mikeck on Jun 23, 2022 8:18:01 GMT
I do remember Gateway...did Happy Shopper make it further north, it was a big chain down here in the South West (franchise model, but very cheap and poor quality).
Happy Crapper as we kids called it.
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 23, 2022 8:20:36 GMT
Lennon’s, Key Market…
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2022 8:51:10 GMT
I remember Gateway. I remember when they took over from Fine Fare in fact.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 23, 2022 8:56:45 GMT
I like the small happy shopper near me as a kid. Had actual pick and mix, sweets were 1 or 2p and you'd put them into a paper bag.
Can't do that now, it's political correctness gone mad.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 23, 2022 8:59:55 GMT
I like the small happy shopper near me as a kid. Had actual pick and mix, sweets were 1 or 2p and you'd put them into a paper bag. Can't do that now, it's political correctness gone mad. Ahhh the irony of Happy Shopper which was in fact for people who were not happy because they had to shop at Happy Shopper or shit like Kwik Save. |
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 23, 2022 9:03:18 GMT
I remember Gateway. I remember when they took over from Fine Fare in fact.
ecosse Pretty sure anyway. Gateway bought them. Bloody hell Wunty. I remember Fine Fare and when it became Gateway before it then became the Asda. I thought I was the only one that recalled Fine Fare. No idea how widespread they were. |
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 23, 2022 9:07:37 GMT
We had a Fine Fare in Congleton. Also the Lennon’s, which became Gateway, then Somerfield was it? It’s now a Home Bargains or B & M; the former, I think.
Lennon’s also had a little off licence across the road from the main store.
The Key Market was in Biddulph.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2022 9:07:58 GMT
We had one not too far from us. I still recall the lovely orange on brown colour scheme.
There was another one I was talking about the other day. Willie Low's. Don't know if that was more a Scotland one though.
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 23, 2022 9:19:33 GMT
We had one not too far from us. I still recall the lovely orange on brown colour scheme.
There was another one I was talking about the other day. Willie Low's. Don't know if that was more a Scotland one though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2022 9:28:34 GMT
That's the one.
Can't remember what one had the value stuff that was literally just wrapped up in plain yellow plastic.
My mum dressed me up like a bag of crisps one halloween using that as inspiration. Yellow bag, black writing. I looked amazing.
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 23, 2022 9:36:43 GMT
My mum dressed me up like a bag of crisps one halloween using that as inspiration. Yellow bag, black writing. I looked amazing. Did you? Did you really? |
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Post by dfunked on Jun 23, 2022 9:44:11 GMT
All of the jam talk in the other thread has made me think "oooh, I could make some raspberry jam!"
Getting excited by the prospect of making jam... What happened to me?!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 23, 2022 9:45:39 GMT
Hang on. Just how many Scottish people are there on this forum??? Feels like an invasion.
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Post by scanline on Jun 23, 2022 9:46:47 GMT
Talking of orange colour schemes - I've been rolling with some homemade custom CSS on this site this week as my ageing eyes much prefer a dark background.   Just cutting out the top Font Geek banner and reducing avatar size means a lot less scrolling to read the guff on the site : Before:  After:  Still a few things to clean up but it's er...night and day difference. |
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Post by elstoof on Jun 23, 2022 9:50:25 GMT
We had a Nisa nearby, could never decide if it was posh or not. I think Cullens was sort of upmarket though
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