All posts tagged "Supermarket"
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 […]
The Future for Secondary Shops
Dec 1984 – The historic development of shopping centres makes fascinating reading. Originally, as people went to market, so came permanent shops. In the post-war housing boom, shops started going to the people and even today, new council housing estates boast a block of shops. The radical change in socio-economic patterns, and the real decline […]
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 […]