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unusual facts about supermarket


Stan Harland

After leaving football he worked in the Supermarket business and continued working up until his death from a heart attack on 30 August 2001 in Tintinhull, Somerset.


Alajärvi

Though a small town, Alajärvi has a few shops, namely Marimekko, Supermarket, Tokmanni, Lidl and a few others.

Andrew Paul

Set in a supermarket, this was a notable programme only because it was the final television work undertaken by the distinguished British actor Leonard Rossiter prior to his sudden death.

Anne-Louise Lambert

This sketch, a send-up of melodramatic soap operas set in a supermarket, mostly featured other former Number 96 actors - Vivienne Garrett, Candy Raymond, Philippa Baker, Judy Lynne and Abigail.

Baron Sainsbury

There have been three peers with the surname "Sainsbury"; all are from the Sainsbury family, namesake of the supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

Bethlehem, New York

Delaware Plaza is home to a large supermarket (currently a Hannaford) as well as some 30 other shops and restaurants.

Cameron Toll

When the centre originally opened it had just thirty five shop units as well as two major retail outlets – the SavaCentre hypermarket, a joint venture between British Home Stores and Sainsbury's, and a smaller Safeway (UK) supermarket.

Chinese Pagoda

It is a stone carving of a Chinese pagoda, carved in Fujian, China and donated to the city by Wing Yip PLC, a local Chinese supermarket chain.

Churchill, Victoria

During 2009, the town's retail precinct was refurbished, with the Richies IGA supermarket expanded, and a new mall constructed, containing a new Woolworths supermarket, KFC outlet and other shops.

Clemens Markets

Clemens Markets also known as Clemens Family Markets was a supermarket chain in the Philadelphia area.

Clowne

Regeneration of the town centre has taken place including the opening of a Tesco supermarket, Wilkinson store and Aldi supermarket.

Clyst Heath

In the 1990s English Heritage refused requests for an archaeological excavation to be carried out at the site of the 1549 battle prior to the construction of the Tesco Exeter Vale supermarket.

Condell Park, New South Wales

There are a number of shops in Condell Park, including an IGA supermarket, Commonwealth Bank , several chemists and numerous other shops and restaurants.

Craigieburn, Victoria

It includes a Woolworths, bank branches (Westpac ,ANZ and Commonwealth Bank), a news agency, dentist, tax agent, Halal butcher and several other specialty shops.

Crossmyloof

Pollokshaws Road and Minard Road provided the shopping area for Crossmyloof, Shawlands and Langside - mainly in small shop units until the construction of the area's first supermarket by the Co-operative during the 1960s.

Dilmah

In 1985, Merril Fernando convinced the Australian supermarket retailer, Coles to stock his brand of tea, Dilmah.

Elizabeth Marrero

In this performance, Marrero presents five different characters, including the matriarch and slightly alcoholic Petronelia, the B-boy MC DJ Guilly-Guiso-Jugo, the hip hop supermarket cashier Wakateema Shaquasha de la Rodriguez, and Macha, a suave Latino crooner that loves women.

Food City

K-VA-T Food City, a U.S. supermarket chain with stores located in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Food-a-rama

When the company was sold in 1985 to Super Rite Foods of PA, it was the second largest supermarket chain in Baltimore, MD behind Giant Food.

Gaywood, Norfolk

The Gaywood area has a wide variety of local shops, including a Tesco supermarket, Aldi, a launderette, several cafes and various takeaways.

Giant Eagle

In 2012, Giant Eagle opened a new low-cost supermarket concept called Good Cents, located in Ross Township, Pennsylvania.

Harveys Supermarkets

In May 2013, Harveys was sold along with sister supermarket chains Sweetbay and Reid's to BI-LO, LLC for $265 million.

Israel O'Quinn

In 2006, he was hired by K-VA-T Food Stores, owners of the K-VA-T Food City regional supermarket chain.

JJB Sports

The original JJB sportshop was founded in the early 1900s and expanded in 1971, when ex-footballer and supermarket chain operator Dave Whelan acquired a single sports shop in Wigan and immediately opened a second sports goods outlet in his Sutton, St Helens, supermarket.

Johnstown, Dublin

Ulster Bank, newsagency, travel agency, cafe, florist and An Post sub-post office, auctioneers, hardware shop, boutique, EBS Building Society branch, Paddy Power bookmakers, Eurospar supermarket, pharmacist, Xtra-vision video rental store, The Graduate (Public house)

Kennedy Centre, Belfast

The site was formerly a Lucozade factory, which Hugh Kennedy bought, developed and opened his supermarket, Curleys, in 1981 on the site.

Komedia

In 1998 the company moved into a former Tesco supermarket on Gardner Street in the North Laine area of Brighton.

Layerthorpe

The Branch Line's sidings and the Corporation's premises have been replaced by a variety of industrial and retail units, although the refuse destructor's octagonal chimney (a Grade II listed building, approximately 55 metres high) has been preserved next to Morrisons supermarket on Foss Islands Road.

Manzanita Sol

The drink is known to be available at Walmart, Albertsons, H-E-B, Ralphs, Kmart, Food 4 Less, Jewel-Osco, Dominick's, Target, Vons, Stater Bros., United Supermarkets in the Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas area, and other smaller chains and smaller family run stores.

Marsh Supermarkets

After the war ended, Ermal expanded his store into "Marsh Foodliners" and created the first supermarket in Muncie.

Matthew Bronfman

As one of the largest American Jewish investors in the Israeli economy, Bronfman is also the main shareholder in IKEA Israel, Israel Discount Bank and the Shufersal supermarket chain.

Monoprix

The closest comparison to Monoprix for American and British customers might be the old-style Woolco /Woolworths stores in both countries, which combined Woolworth's non-food range with a supermarket offering, or the Fred Meyer chain in the United States' Pacific Northwest.

Newmarket, Queensland

The shopping centre contains a Coles supermarket, post office, Commonwealth Bank of Australia branch, newsagent and several specialty stores.

NTUC FairPrice

The then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew opened the first supermarket at Block 192, Toa Payoh Lorong 4, and it was the first of its kind.

Paula P-Orridge

P-Orridge's musical career began in 1979 when she met musician and artist, Genesis P-Orridge, while working at a Tesco supermarket in Hackney, East London.

Price Chopper

Price Chopper Supermarkets, a supermarket chain with stores in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut

Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit

The video was filmed in the vacant offices of, what used to be, the headquarters of the Safeway supermarket chain at Hayes, Hillingdon.

Roger H. Chen

By 1988, Chen then convinced Taiwanese investors to construct a retail complex that was able to accommodate restaurants and stores and as well as a 36,000-square foot supermarket in Rowland Heights, a suburb that was located in the Eastern part of Rowland Heights, where the suburb was located east of the well-known Chinese American community of Monterey Park.

Shopping cart

In 2004 the British supermarket chain Tesco trialled shopping carts with built in resistance (adjustable from 1 to 10), pulse monitoring and calorie counting hardware in an effort to raise awareness of health issues.

State Cinema

The same month Thurrock Council gave planning permission to supermarket chain Morrisons to build a store on the State's old car park after purchasing the site for £10 million.

Tesco Ireland

The Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said that consumers wanted to see large numbers of native products on the shelves of large supermarket chains.

Large supermarket chains were accused by Fine Gael of putting up to 100,000 Irish jobs at risk by forcing suppliers to pay €160 million a year in "hello money".

The New Show

Grandmom (Thomas, Garr, Bromfield)
Weekend Tonight (BH, Thomas, plus Davis and Garr)
Terri Garr hands out samples in supermarket (everyone)
The Pretenders
Where's The Beef themed wedding (everyone)

Trollie Wallie

The map design and graphics style in Trollie Wallie is very surreal, with ladders, slides and conveyor belts forming a devilish maze, and with nightmarish creatures wandering around inside the supermarket.

Tyrrelstown

Other local amenities include two national schools (one under the patronage of Educate Together and a second under the patronage of the Catholic Church ), a creche, a Lidl supermarket, a Superquinn supermarket, a newsagent, a pub, an off-licence, a restaurant, several fast food outlets, a pharmacy, two medical centres, a dental practice, a solicitor's office, a coffee shop, and a hairdresser and barber shop.

Wannado City

The system are functioned by the idea of participation in different activities, gain capital and spend their earnings in luxurious visits such as the Wonka Factory, The Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, a Publix supermarket, the Wannado City Fair and a permanent circus.

Wherrytown

The site was taken over and used as a bus depot by Western National and is now a Lidl supermarket.

Willmott Dixon

Major projects include Woolwich Central, the largest ever development by Tesco's in-house development business Spenhill, comprising an 80,000 sq ft supermarket and 259 homes over 17 storeys.

York Street railway station

J.D. Irving Ltd. has been attempting to sell various parcels of the former CP Rail yard in Fredericton, such as the large parcel at the east end of the yard fronting Regent Street which now houses a Sobeys supermarket.


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