After 54 years, Sainsbury's enters final week in Whitgift Centre

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The departure of one of the shopping centre’s ever-presents will only reinforce the feeling of decay and decline in the town centre The writing’s on the wall: Sainsbury’s exit may prompt other major traders to leave Sainsbury’s has confirmed that the final day of trading for its Whitgift Centre store will be on Sunday, October 15, ending an association with the shopping mall…

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Shea

Shea works in my local Sainsbury Local and I don’t know him at all. I like him enormously. He is tall, lanky, probably in his mid-twenties, and he has the confidence of an old hand. He calls all his male customers ‘mate’ and all his female customers ‘darling,’ and he takes excellent care while packing the bags to stack the stuff I buy in them sensibly. The first time I witness him in action I…

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Two men in balaclavas armed with an axe and machete rob a Sainsbury's local in Wetherby

Two men in balaclavas armed with an axe and machete rob a Sainsbury’s local in Wetherby

Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a convenience store near Leeds last night.

At 11:46pm on Thursday (20/9) police received a report of the incident at the Sainsbury’s Local, in Crossley Street, Wetherby.

Two men, who were wearing balaclavas and were armed with an axe and a machete, entered the store and threatened staff and a customer before stealing cash from a…

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Sainsbury's confirms it is to close Whitgift Centre store

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Supermarket chain says it was a ‘difficult decision’ to close flagship shop – but at least they have five higher-profit ‘Local’ shops nearby. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES ‘Difficult decision’: Sainsbury’s says the closure came after a routine review of its estate Britain’s second-largest chain of supermarkets has admitted that it can no longer justify running a branch in…

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Whitgift Centre ever-present Sainsbury's opts to shut up shop

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Latest exit of flagship store will be a hammer blow to the town centre. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The exodus of major stores from the blighted Whitgift Centre is about to get worse still, with Sainsbury’s to close their supermarket in the town centre in less than three months’ time. The Sainsbury’s store was one of the first to open its doors when the Whitgift Centre opened…

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Shea

Shea works in my local Sainsbury Local, and I don’t know him at all. I like him enormously. He is tall, lanky, probably in his mid-twenties, and he has the confidence of an old hand. He calls all his male customers ‘mate’ and all his female customers ‘darling’, and he takes excellent care while packing the bags to stack the stuff I buy in them sensibly. The first time I witness him in action I…

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