Thread: StP retail fit-out - still a work in progress
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Old March 24th 08, 11:13 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default StP retail fit-out - still a work in progress
In message , Roland Perry
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Not just biggest, must have been (that long ago) one of the first.
ASDA quote 1963 (Queens in Leeds) as their first,

Beaten by Tesco, who already had a chain of several hundred stores by
1963. Their first actual supermarket was 1956, although they were
operating self-service shops as early as 1947 (and more conventional
retail outlets since soon after the first world war).
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