I didn't know that - but what seems ever strangerer is that Sainsbury's at the other end of the mall is in the normal format, and if the Rosie & Jim Bumper Video I watched 1000 times as a child is anything to go by, it always has been.Pete wrote:The Merry Hill style seems to be a European type thing where the checkouts have the opening to the mall behind them rather than a wall / windows. Certainly I've seen branches of Real in Germany and Essenlunga in Italy that had this layout with a shopping centre attached.
The whole mall is extremely higeldy pigeldy, so it might be that the mall up to Sainsbury's was not there when Sainsbury's opened.