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C&A. My mum used to make me go there for my school uniform. Used to hate the material they used, sure it was that that used to create static that gave me bad hair for entire school life!
Still exists in most European countries, they just moved out of the UK, thank God!! |
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"C&A it was such a surprising store"
I had a Saturday job there... my mum used my staff discount card more than I did!!
Our Price was my favourite shop for many a year |
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"Inspired by a reply from another topic.
What shops do you remember, that are no longer with us.
Used to love Wollies. 
Also up north we had a supermarket chain called Hillards. "
God i can remember hillards from when i was a kid |
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"Was Presto..a chain or just in Halifax??
It was a chain, I remember it in York as well
Just Rember it being the dirty supermarket that stole our bowling ally"
Then it became a dirtier Nettos, that place looked a mess. Tbh the plazza has made that area look nice again. |
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"Green Shield Stamp shops. My Gran collected them and always took us to the one in Cambridge so we could pick out some free felt-tips.
The original loyalty points  "
Me and my sister was only talking the other day about the green sheild stamps. But cannot remember where you got them from |
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God i can remember hillards from when i was a kid
I mainly remember the carrier bags that said "Hillards, not for sale". Then it becoming a Tesco. "
Yes thats right. My nan died 3 yrs ago and when we sorted here bungalow out we foung tins of food that she had stored incase there was another blitz ss she said which had the hillards price label on |
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"Inspired by a reply from another topic.
What shops do you remember, that are no longer with us.
Used to love Wollies.
Also up north we had a supermarket chain called Hillards. "
Rumbelows
Woolworths
Owen and Owen's (Liverpool department store)
Rapid Hardware (Liverpool DIY store)
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"ravels and Chelsea girl
River island now do a range from chelsea girl if its the same one"
It is that is what they became but too many stores not much original stuff |
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Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year. |
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"Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year."
I thought it was ASDA that bought them out. |
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"Inspired by a reply from another topic.
What shops do you remember, that are no longer with us.
Used to love Wollies.
Also up north we had a supermarket chain called Hillards. "
Chelsea Girl - attended pickets outside it due to their shameful treatment of workers. Now river island..... |
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By *eendeeCouple
over a year ago
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"Green Shield Stamp shops. My Gran collected them and always took us to the one in Cambridge so we could pick out some free felt-tips.
The original loyalty points
Me and my sister was only talking the other day about the green sheild stamps. But cannot remember where you got them from"
Wasn't it co-op who issued green shield stamps Hun not sure but think it was xx |
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"Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year.
I thought it was ASDA that bought them out."
No Morrisons bought netto out as I saw morrisons stores replace netto stores |
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"Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year.
I thought it was ASDA that bought them out.
No Morrisons bought netto out as I saw morrisons stores replace netto stores "
I mean I thought it was morrisons but I maybe wrong....Netto are huge in Denmark along with Aldi and Lidi  |
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"Radio rentals my dad used to rent our TV off them back in the 80's "
your Dad did, oh dear , that makes me feel old lol
i rented my first telly off of them |
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presto, c & a, chelsea girl, i remember those - also timothy whites (i think attached to boots somehow) - was where i used to spend pocket money on whimsies (tiny ceramics in a box) |
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"Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year.
I thought it was ASDA that bought them out.
No Morrisons bought netto out as I saw morrisons stores replace netto stores "
That's weird because around here I heard that ASDA bought Netto and then when the one by me closed months later, it was converted into an ASDA.
Is it possible they split up the UK Netto between companies then? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year.
I thought it was ASDA that bought them out.
No Morrisons bought netto out as I saw morrisons stores replace netto stores
I mean I thought it was morrisons but I maybe wrong....Netto are huge in Denmark along with Aldi and Lidi "
Netto was huge in my neighbourhood lol they had the best sausages and black pud for a start. Deep fill BLTs for a quid as well.
When the ASDA rolled in, they got more shoppers, but everyone still thinks it's shit. I don't shop there now. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"Wimpys.
Ok they are still about, but I remember when they were the alternative to McDonald's. They were sold and became Burger King. "
Wimpy was the daddy!!!!!! I use to love the burger sauce they had ... Was superb |
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"Wimpys.
Ok they are still about, but I remember when they were the alternative to McDonald's. They were sold and became Burger King.
Wimpy was the daddy!!!!!! I use to love the burger sauce they had ... Was superb "
I dont know if it's still there but there's one in Bootle Strand that never went away. It just advertises burgers for about £5 and its customer base is purely pensioners stopping in to cach their breath and have a cup of tea.
To be honest, I'm not even sure they actually store burgers or if it's just a front for something else. I might go in and ask and see if they shit one and run out the back! |
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"Dewhurst the butchers were a massive chain, then suddenly they vanished
our local butchers reopened as a dentist!!!!"
So it went from pulled pork to pulled molars lol |
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A few more that haven't been mentioned so far .....
Laskys (electrical store, 70's)
George Mason (greengrocers, 60's)
John Collier (mens outfitters, 70's)"The Window To Watch!"
Visionhire (tv rentals, 60's)
Green Shield stamps were issued by many outlets .... there were also 'pink' stamps that I believe you got when you bought paraffin oil.
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"Sainsbury's are bringing Netto's back to the UK......
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is to take on discount rivals Aldi and Lidl by entering into a joint venture with Danish discount grocery chain Netto.
The joint venture will see the launch of 15 Netto stores by the end of 2015.
Both Netto and Sainsbury's will invest £12.5m in the venture. The first store will open in the north of England later this year.
I thought it was ASDA that bought them out.
No Morrisons bought netto out as I saw morrisons stores replace netto stores
That's weird because around here I heard that ASDA bought Netto and then when the one by me closed months later, it was converted into an ASDA.
Is it possible they split up the UK Netto between companies then?"
Who knows as the Netto near me turned into a Morrisons.... |
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"ravels and Chelsea girl
River island now do a range from chelsea girl if its the same one
It is that is what they became but too many stores not much original stuff "
My daughter works for river island and they do the chelsea girl range. Influanced by the late 60's 70's. Think she said river island had patterns from some of the origial chealsea girl garments and recreated some of them |
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"Wimpys.
Ok they are still about, but I remember when they were the alternative to McDonald's. They were sold and became Burger King.
Wimpy was the daddy!!!!!! I use to love the burger sauce they had ... Was superb "
There is a wimpy just by us and they still do that sauce it is very nice |
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Richard shops.
I remember you got green shield stamps in a sheet or in a long string of single stamps from a machine, usually at a garage.
Talking of garages, remember the breakfast and soup bowls and all those bloody glasses, also smurfs etc.
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i thought asda took over netto cos when they went i thought typical giants took them over and got rid, the 1 in ponte was in the middle of place where there are 2 asdas so home bargains got the shop and morrisons got the one in cas .
i worked at littlewoods in harrogate back in the 80s |
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"Inspired by a reply from another topic.
What shops do you remember, that are no longer with us.
Used to love Wollies.
Also up north we had a supermarket chain called Hillards. "
macross in cardiff, now the entrance to st Davids |
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OK, lets sort this Asda/Netto thing out....
Asda bought Netto UK in 2010 for £778m. Netto had 193 shops, but the Office of Fair Trading got involved and told them to get rid of 47.
20 became Ugo, which later went into administration. Poundstretcher bought 18 of those stores
Morrisons got 18 of them
Iceland and Co-op got 3 each.
And 3 just closed. |
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"Im amazed that Dixons and Ratner haven't been mentioned.
Dixons are Currys"
And Rumberlows are also now Currys.
Our local town had one each side of the road.
Now has neither.
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"We had a supermarkets called 'international', 'fine fare', 'key markets' which all eventually got swallowed up by 'gateways'.
And the newsagents chain merretts. "
Finefare always reminds me of Aberdeen for some reason
Summer up there when younger ... |
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"Leo was a supermarket, not sure if it was nationwide or just in Yorkshire "
leos was here also in north wales used ro love going with my mam after work 2 get my 2 choose my neices baby food shes 29 now  |
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"Ice ages ago I used to get loads of clothes and make up in BIBA in
Princes St in Edinburgh. Loved that shop  "
I just bought 2 months ago a BIBA BAG
House of Frasier have bought the orignal designs etc,It wernt cheap as just as it wernt in the 70s . |
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"Army & Navy (not seen them in ages)
Beatties (model shops)
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Beatties were originally Taylor and McKennor
Finefare
Zodiac - don't know if they were a chain but they were in Kettering and Leicester in late 70s early 80s, did a big range of discount toys and models. Got my first Tamiya 1/35 Tiger from there for a fiver, bargain |
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oh the static that caused lol, you could actually see the little flashes of static in bed when the lights were off
