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A store in York, North Yorkshire. In 1998, Sainsbury's piloted its first Local shop in Hammersmith.The shop opened on the busy Fulham Palace Road and was designed for the convenience of customers who did not have time to do a full weekly food shop.
Convenience shop chain with approx. 480 company-owned and franchise stores [17] One Stop: Tesco: Approx. 1,000 owned and franchised stores. [18] [19] Poundland Local Poundland: Chain of convenience shops Sainsbury's Local: 1998 Sainsbury's: Chain of approx. 800 convenience shops run by Sainsburys [20] Tesco Express: Tesco
Tesco is the largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom.. As of November 2024, there are 17 supermarket chains currently operating in the United Kingdom. The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010.
Sainsbury's first shop in Drury Lane c. 1919. Sainsbury's was established as a partnership in 1869, when John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann opened a shop at 173 Drury Lane in Covent Garden, London. [7] Sainsbury started as a retailer of fresh foods and later expanded into packaged groceries such as tea and sugar.
Jacksons Stores – became Sainsbury's at Jacksons in 2004; replaced with the Sainsbury's Local brand in 2008; Local Plus – based in the UK, bought by the Co-operative Group in 2004; M Local – former UK convenience shop format for Morrisons Supermarkets; Mac's – based in Canada, rebranded as Circle K in 2017
Since the 2016 Sainsbury's takeover, Argos Collection points have been installed inside smaller Sainsbury's supermarkets unable to accommodate a full in-store concession, and inside some Sainsbury's Local convenience stores, with 317 locations as of May 2019. [citation needed]
Bells Stores Ltd was a chain of 54 convenience shops in North East England.It was owned and run by the Bell family until February 2004, when it was acquired by Sainsbury's, [1] [2] [3] the UK's second largest supermarket chain.
Jacksons Stores Ltd, named after the founder William Jackson, was a British chain of 114 convenience shops in Yorkshire and the North Midlands that was founded in 1891 by the Hull-based William Jackson & Sons Ltd and sold to Sainsbury's in 2004, an acquisition which doubled that company's share of the convenience shop market. [1]