There are many High Street retailers (Marks and Spencer, Boots the Chemist, Superdrug, Costa Coffee etc) and a wide variety of pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants.
In 1981, there were 300 Superdrug stores in the United Kingdom and they opened their 11,148 m² (120,000 ft²) distribution centre and office complex at Beddington Lane in Croydon.
Notably, many major British 'high street' names now operate in the Republic of Ireland, such as Dixons, Next, Debenhams, Topshop, Boots, Superdrug, Argos, Dorothy Perkins, Maplin, Currys, T.K. Maxx, PC World, Game Stop and others.
notes = Funds from the sale of the Welby's Superdrug stores allowed Hannaford (Shop 'N' Save) to "absorb their pharmacy business into their main Hannaford Stores.