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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.
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, [a] is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
Since Sainsbury's acquired Argos, more and more standalone stores have been moved into a nearby Sainsbury's store. On 25 September 2019, Sainsbury's announced that over 50 Argos stores would be closing or relocating in order to cut costs. Stores also began to feature digital computers as well as printed catalogues to save costs.
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.
Bought by Sainsbury's in 2004, branded as Sainsbury's at Jacksons Stores before being converted to Sainsbury's Local [41] Regional in Yorkshire and North Midlands: Local Plus: 2001 Bought by the Co-operative Group [42] Chain of 64 convenience shops created by a management buyout of South West Alldays shops: McColl's: Morrisons
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
Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran, it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc, before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the Kamprad family, in 1992.
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]