Yet another rant at Morrisons

Pete · Tue 26 Jul, 2005 11.10

oh for fucks sake

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4717091.stm

and guess which is one of the shops... oh yes *Kelso*

The reason competition decreased was because they shut Kwik Save which belonged to the same company. It makes no sense. urgh.

James Martin · Tue 26 Jul, 2005 23.28

Hinckley gets converted this week.

Can't wait to see how shite it looks.

A new Tesco Extra has opened in Coventry (the former Big W/Homeworld in Walsgrave Triangle) - went into it tonight. Apart from being absoloutely massive it sells, like, everything. Was in the standard Tesco in Rugby too recently, again, it's fantastic.

I refuse to believe that Morrisons can keep doing what they're doing when people like Tesco are storming ahead and reaping the natural benefits!

Ant · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 00.17

James Martin wrote:Hinckley gets converted this week.

Can't wait to see how shite it looks.

A new Tesco Extra has opened in Coventry (the former Big W/Homeworld in Walsgrave Triangle) - went into it tonight. Apart from being absoloutely massive it sells, like, everything. Was in the standard Tesco in Rugby too recently, again, it's fantastic.

I refuse to believe that Morrisons can keep doing what they're doing when people like Tesco are storming ahead and reaping the natural benefits!

You mentioned Big W, I noticed that they seem to have scrapped the name and just went for Woolworths recently. It took me a while to work out Big W was part of the group!

cwathen · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 01.35

A new Tesco Extra has opened in Coventry (the former Big W/Homeworld in Walsgrave Triangle) - went into it tonight. Apart from being absoloutely massive it sells, like, everything. Was in the standard Tesco in Rugby too recently, again, it's fantastic.

Bizarrely, EXACTLY the same thing has happened down here in Cornwall. A Homeworld opened here in 1982, it became a Big W in 2000 after Homeworld closed down, which itself closed down earlier this year and a couple of weeks ago the building reopened as a Tesco Extra.

Lee · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 01.51

Antz wrote:You mentioned Big W, I noticed that they seem to have scrapped the name and just went for Woolworths recently. It took me a while to work out Big W was part of the group!

Here in the land of Nod.. er Norwich, we've only gone half way. Big W at Riverside was changed to Woolworths, but the big orange W sign that kind of greets you as you approach Wollies was changed to a big red W sign. Looks a little like this...

My guess is they done their research for this area and people liked the Big W name, so they tried to keep the big W. Or they just couldn't fit Woolworths on because of the shape of the sign.

Pete · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 02.00

oh I saw a classic safeway wagon (before the MASSIVE FRUIT) on Sherrif Hall the other day

babyben · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 04.05

MY favourite with Safeway was the big photo and slogan "Magic.. Mushrooms" at the veggies counter..

Spencer For Hire · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 15.17

Hymagumba wrote:oh I saw a classic safeway wagon (before the MASSIVE FRUIT) on Sherrif Hall the other day

I saw one on the A1 yesterday evening, albeit with a Morrisons branded cab.

nwtv2003 · Wed 27 Jul, 2005 21.22

Spencer For Hire wrote:
Hymagumba wrote:oh I saw a classic safeway wagon (before the MASSIVE FRUIT) on Sherrif Hall the other day
I saw one on the A1 yesterday evening, albeit with a Morrisons branded cab.

Saw one today whilst I was at work (in Morrisons), the one with all of the fruit on it and the modern Safeway logo.

Spencer For Hire · Thu 28 Jul, 2005 15.22

Perhaps discussion of spotting Safeway / Morrisons lorries should move to this thread... http://www.metropol247.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2767.

all new Phil · Fri 04 Nov, 2005 16.10

I agree with a lot of what's been said in this thread so far. Much as I like the Morrisons back home which has been there for years, I always thought Safeway was a better brand and the Safeway near me was a great little store. I'm very surprised they didn't convert all the Morrisons to Safeways instead of the other way around - it would have made much more sense, the Safeway brand was always very fresh.

The Safeway near me was very confusing when Morrisons bought them out. It changed to a Morrisons for just a few weeks, then it changed to a Somerfield. Bizarre! I really thought that Morrisons would take all of this as a chance to modernise their image... but alas, it seems not. Shame, their products are very good, particularly bakery items.