Metropol

Is that what I remember? Hmm.

Definately part of Woolworth, it seems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolco

http://www.geocities.com/zayre88/R_woolco.html

Yeah, seems most of which were sold to Asda once they became shitty.

It did in fact become an Asda.

Still is.

Just realised that I've become that old person who remembers long gone supermarkets, such as Templeton's and the Pick n' Save.

Fucking ouch.

Is that at Gateway levels of oldness or a different league altogether?

There is a shopping centre near me (now called Ards Shopping Centre) that everyone used to call Woolco. But I don't remember there being a Woolco store in it. Had the biggest Primark for miles around though.

Sput wrote:Is that at Gateway levels of oldness or a different league altogether?

I stomp on your latter-day remembrances.

Or I will when I can get out of this chair.

Gavin Scott wrote:Just realised that I've become that old person who remembers long gone supermarkets, such as Templeton's and the Pick n' Save.

Fucking ouch.

the WHS in Kelso is a former templetons, it still has the partly intact 60s cafe upstairs which is used to store fixtures and fittings.

I remeber Presto. Does that make me old?

I remember Gateway... kept getting it confused with Safeway, sadly both long departed.

Sput wrote:Is that at Gateway levels of oldness or a different league altogether?

Hopefully not Fine Fare old, that's a bit much.

Hymagumba wrote:I remeber Presto. Does that make me old?

Don't think so, they didn't stop until a decade ago... Ok, maybe then.

Gateway was one of Somerfield's old names was it not?

Yeah, it's an odd chain of events always involving Safeway at some point of major transition.