The Unofficial Sainsbury's Thread

[AGuyFromUpNorth]

But, most importantly, little old bits of Sainsbury’s design keep getting exposed as they refurbish things, including some lovely orange and white subway tiles that have been revealed when peeling back a fake wall. I’m sure they’ll be covered up again by some shelving in a couple of days, but nice to see some old stuff peek through.

This seems to be quite common with supermarkets - they hide things behind walls, freezers etc. I know some of the older Morrisons stores still have those tiles with the different fish on and false windows that were part of Market Street years ago hidden behind those false white walls. I assume it was probably just cheaper to cover them rather than to remove them.

Reminds me of that shopping centre in the US where they took down a false wall and found a fully intact 1980s Burger King. It probably happens way more often than you'd think, just not usually on that sort of scale.

[BBC TV Centre]

This seems to be quite common with supermarkets - they hide things behind walls, freezers etc. I know some of the older Morrisons stores still have those tiles with the different fish on and false windows that were part of Market Street years ago hidden behind those false white walls. I assume it was probably just cheaper to cover them rather than to remove them.

When our local Waitrose had a refurb, they removed some of the fridges and at the same time the fake boxing in panels round the columns. It revealed all of the mosaic tiling effect from years back they'd applied to it, and sadly all got covered up again once the works were finished.

I also noticed in our local Sainsbury's that had a massive refurb they'd also placed fake tile effect vinyl wallcovering in all of the toilets on the walls, as opposed to doing real tiles. Guess the accountants were in charge of that one.