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Another sainsbury's local?
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Posted 10 years ago #
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The bailey field brownfield site belonging to Scottish power. This was an EEN story, sorry should have checked it more carefully. The site that the three well connected dog walkers call portobello park, ie the wasteland would therefore still be available. My neighbour campaigned for years to get a high school in Balerno . It was built directly across from his garden. By this time his children had all left school.
Posted 10 years ago # -
"... per head of population, Edinburgh has the highest number of Sainsbury’s and Tesco local stores of any city in the country"
That's one to put on the tourist info guides, surely? Beats having the world's largest ball of.string or anything else gimmicky.
Posted 10 years ago # -
My unscientific but reasonably indicative perusal of the prices at the Sainsbury on Marchmont Road showed that they are charging approx 8% more than for the same items from their store at Cameron Toll.
In other news, the old Borough hotel / Meadows Hotel on Causewayside is being converted to ... a Sainburys Local.
Posted 10 years ago # -
How long was that building a hotel? Used to be a dole office near there and suggestion it was a snooker hall. What will sainsburys do with the bedrooms?
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Posted 10 years ago #
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There's a new Tesco Metro thingummy at Stenhouse Cross, where the old prefab Baptist (I think) Church was. Twice now in the morning I have met a Tesco articulated lorry trying to squeeze down the "quiet" side street of Stenhouse Avenue. I had no option but to pull off the road and let it pass.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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Supermarket profits are slumping, and online shopping is transforming the market. While the big four struggle, discounters such as Aldi and Lidl are booming. Why?"
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/videos/all/supermarket-price-wars
Likely to mention 'out of town sites that have planning permission that won't become supermarkets because shopping habits have changed'.
Posted 9 years ago # -
The big Supermarkets - Tesco and Sainsbury's in particular - have hollowed out their offerings in their tiny city centre metro/express/local stores (which seem to concentrate on flowers, fancy bread, booze, sweets, expensive crisps and the odd microwave meal) to the point where you can't actually do your regular shopping in them, with their limited and overpriced selection. Instead they have taken flight to what they assumed was the economic sanctuary of enormous shopping barns that you are pretty much forced into driving to.
ASDA don't seem to have bothered with the small stores and Morrisons is very late to the party and has found everyone else has already had the good drinks and nibbles and bagged the good seats and co-opted the interesting conversation. It's lingering somewhere in the corner of the kitchen nursing a can of Export and talking to the boring guy that everyone else was avoiding about his gallstones.
Meanwhile, Aldi, Lidl and to a very limited extent Waitrose have been quietly expanding in the suburbs and shopping streets and seem to be doing quite well out of it. Even the ever parochial Scotmid has been slowly updating and refurbishing its stores and trying to tailor them better to their local demogaphic and seem to be in a fairly healthy way.
Posted 9 years ago # -
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist" - Kenneth Boulding
Anyone who believes that they can keep opening profitable new stores forever in a finite city is either a madman or works for a major supermarket.
Posted 9 years ago # -
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Tesco's stores are not worth nearly as much as the retailer previously thought. Companies' real estate valuations are taken through their profit & loss statements, with rises in property values recorded as a profit and falls treated as a loss. Tesco's stores have declined in value because its vast out of town estates have fallen out of favour with consumers who now shop online and use convenience stores to top up as necessary. In short, the traditional Saturday morning trip to the supermarket/retail park is being replaced, for many Brits, by ordering groceries on a smartphone while commuting.
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http://www.ft.com/fastft/311342/how-tescos-loss-stacks-up-why-it-happened
Posted 8 years ago # -
In Dundas Street in Edinburgh, there is a vivid example. On one side of the street, a new artisan bakery is getting ready to open.
I did not know that. Sounds promising.
Posted 8 years ago # -
So I guess shortly we may need to change the thread to one tracking the closures of "Local" and "Metro" stores?
Posted 8 years ago # -
I was wondering if the Tesco Metro planned for the former And So To Bed shop has been canned. That may be overly optimistic, given its prime New Town location, but here's hoping.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I believe the Morrisons Local on Gorgie Road is closing. We'll only miss it for the ability to go shopping between 10 and 11pm (and the bread is quite good, if the Coop has run out).
Posted 8 years ago # -
That was quick. It's not been there long, has it?
Posted 8 years ago # -
Yup Morrisons on Gorgie Road is closing. Think it's been there about 6 months?
A new Co-Op is opening next to the EICC on Morrison Street. Part of the Artia 1 building.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Still no sign of the LiDL at the old B&Q on Easter Road yet. Except on the LiDL web site, where it appears in the store search, bearing the legend "This store is currently under construction." Not much happening at the actual site, however.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Lidl have planning permission to develop the former B&Q building, but they've also bought the business behind the store. I guess they'll be putting in new planning permission for a bigger store.
I noticed the Lidl's sign had been removed (or blown away) from the front and there was a to let sign up (possibly never taken down).
Posted 8 years ago # -
Just one more day to go before another Sainsbury's Local opens in Craighall Road Trinity, near me.
It will almost certainly put two local shops out of business, but I don't hear any objections from ward councillors.
I will not be giving them my custom, unless the Sainsbury's at Craigleith changes its no cycling policy on the link path from the NEPN.
Posted 7 years ago # -
My sympathy for local shops died at Roseburn. They won't be missed, otherwise competition wouldn't put them out of business.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"otherwise competition wouldn't put them out of business"
Part of the problem is that (generally, not just shops) bigger businesses tend to get better tax breaks, planning advantages etc.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Like to support local bike shops.
Once had a Bombay bad boy pot noodle from the local grocers in trinity near the council outdoors centre where I was helping with the bad boys. The shop had a special pot noodle station where you could add hot water etc. You don't get that in AnotherSainsburys Local
Posted 7 years ago #
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