Supermarkets in the 1970s
How many of these supermarkets from the 1970s are still around today? How many do you remember?
These are some of the supermarket and grocery chains from the 1970s:
- Allied Suppliers (Liptons)
- Asda
- Batemans - South Wales & West England
- Co-op
- Fine Fare
- Gateway
- David Greig - London & South England
- Hintons (Amos Hinton) - North East England
- Gem Super Centres (part of Asda)
- Grandways (part of William Jackson)
- Jackon (William Jackson) - Yorks, Lincs, Notts
- International Stores
- Key Markets - South England, Midlands, Wales
- Low (Wm Low) - Scotland
- Mace
- Mac Fisheries and Mac Markets
- Marks & Spencer
- Moores Stores
- Pricerite
- Safeway
- J Sainsbury
- Tesco
- F W Woolworth & Co
- Spar
- Vivo
- Mace
- Kebby's Supermarkets (Unigate)
- VG
- Waitrose
- Woolworth
Some of these chains traded under a variety of different local names. These are a few examples:
Allied Suppliers Ltd
Allied Suppliers' main brand was Liptons. They also sold Sunshine, Beach's and Jaunty products.
Their store names were:
- Maypole
- Andrew Cochrane
- Galbraith's Stores
- Home & Colonial Stores
- Lipton
- A Massey
- R & J Templeton
- Broughs
- Vye & Son
- Markdown
- Presto
Fine Fare
The Fine Fare stores included:
- Fine Fare
- Coopers
- Pay-Less
- Elmo Stores
- Waterworth Bros
- Welwyn Department Store
- Hodgson & Hepworth
- Blower Bros
- J C Carline
- William Cussons
- Buywell
- Forrest
- Hudson
International Stores
International incorporated the following other trade names:
- Ridgways
- Payantake Stores
- Kilby
- Kibby's Granville
- Mason
- Pegram
- Orme
Key Markets
Key Markets also traded as:
- Barrows
- World's
- Walkers
- Green & Dyson
- Hale
Moores
Moores also traded as:
- Pinks
- Gallons
- Gowers & Burgon
- Thrift
- Hay
- Thompsons
- Seymour Mead
- Farrands
- Peglers
References
The information on this page was mainly compiled from :
- 'Where to buy groceries' published by The Consumers' Association in 'Which?', November 1971 pages 324-330
- 'Buying groceries' published by The Consumers' Association in 'Which?', November 1972 pages 329-336
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Another family owned chain which operated in Northants, Leics, Bucks and Beds was CIVILS who also operated as James Bros. In the 1970’s they acquired the business of Dudeney and Johnson who operated in Beds, Bucks, Herts. Eventually all the stores operated as Civils and during the 1980’s the G Civil & Sons Ltd were acquired by the Co-op. At its peak the company had around 60 branches.
In Wellingborough Pearks, changed its facia to Meadow, then when it changed to self service it changed again to Buywise and eventually Liptons!
Allied Suppliers (Argyll)stores also traded under the names of Tower Discount, Moores stores,Pearks,Frost also frozen outlets of Snowking & Mojo
how many branches of international stores were there
Karen. In the late 1970's (about 1978) there were about 550 in the entire supermarkets division (stores below 25,000 square feet in size) of the company, 165 of which were on Eastern Group (there were two other regional groups in England, one south and one north) and included about 100 former FJ Wallis stores, mainly in London, Essex and Kent. These figures do not include International's superstores, (larger units), which traded as Big 'I' stores
and were a separate division of the company.
You forgot Wal Memory's.