All posts tagged "Convenience Store"
Supermarkets Visited
Jun 1985 – Thinking I was immune from advertising, my first trip to what has now become my local grocers was to satisfy professional curiosity but standing in the car park at Tesco’s 100th superstore, I was comfortably aware of some magnetic presence which has brightened up Neasden. For those of us who thrive on […]
Warning Signs
Sep 1984 – News is coming through that the banks are tightening up on their lending to Asian buyers for grocery businesses. Asians tend to treat their business interests as family concerns, injecting sizeable capital funds from consortium or family sources, with bank loans over 5-10 years, in exchange for an income level which would seem derisory to […]