if anybody's interested in a history of Savacentre, here's a detailed history of Savacentre from the Sainsbury's Archive:
https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/sto ... savacentre

I appreciate they're no Nisa, but adding a dozen or so new stores to an existing operation does give you a bit of a saving on starting from scratch.

Do they make a profit? I only ever get a chance to visit them off-peak, and they're generally only as busy as a neighborhood Tesco Express seems to be, and on a similar staffing level. The technology must be a bit of a higher overhead, but I assumed the supply chain side shared a bit with Whole Food...

No, an independent who are based in Woodford Green. We barely get through enough cow milk at home to make it worthwhile these days, though the weekly eggs and bread deliveries are handy.

Christmas greetings from my milko.

in this case, it wasn't them. But I did recently open an HSBC account online (for the bonus), and transferred some money in to the account (for the bonus), then back out again, to a different one of my accounts. This triggered some sort of fraud alert, and for the transaction to go through, I had to...

I assume the banks know what branches are being used and what aren't - that's not to say that's their main driver for choosing which to close, though. My current banking anecdote is courtesy of my wife, who's just become treasurer of a society; and initially couldn't get herself added to the bank ac...

M&Co, again.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-sc ... s-63933835

bilky asko wrote: ↑Wed 16 Nov, 2022 07.53Anyone could be behind your site - a murderer, someone who owns a copy of Mein Kampf, or Elon Musk.

heaven forfend it's run by someone who owns Elon Musk.

I feel like it's not worth booking trains any more as you can't be sure that they're not going to strike and the trains are even going to run. with some train operators, it's bad enough even without the industrial action - you can't put all the blame on the RMT. Also bear in mind they're not doing ...

Official LEGO ASDA store:

https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-6034 ... eover/amp/