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Croydon goes ****ing viral for all the wrong reasons (again)
If a picture says a thousand words, then surely at least one of them might be obscene. This photo has been doing the rounds on the interweb since yesterday morning. The nice people at Waitrose on...
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Spreading it on a bit thick: adding up for a bargain
There’s a supermarket on George Street which just keeps on giving. In a picture story sense, if nothing else beyond those little green tokens you’re handed at the check-out. Our loyal reader may...
View ArticleLocal newspaper group seeks funding through a charity appeal
Waitrose’s George Street branch is this month using part of its community charity fund-raiser to support a newspaper business which last year reported profits of £70million and which axed the jobs of...
View ArticleWaitrose confirms closure plan for its George Street store
The cry went out from horrified shoppers all across Croydon: “But where am I to get my lemongrass?” Waitrose, the supermarket of choice for all those eager young professionals paying over-the-odds for...
View ArticleRed faces after doomed supermarket is shortlisted for award
Red faces at Grey Label, the marketing agency that organises the “Croydon Business Excellence Awards”, where they have managed to shortlist as “Best Employer” a business that is about to make its 70...
View ArticleWaitrose makes a move to Dobbies’ Woodcote garden centre
The latest straw in the wind to signal the changes in high street retailing blew through this morning, with the announcement that Waitrose groceries are to be available on the shelves of one of the...
View ArticleWaitrose’s closure is another nail in town centre’s coffin
Another nail in the coffin of Croydon as a retail centre will be hammered in place tomorrow, with the closure of the Waitrose supermarket on George Street. The closure was announced by the groceries...
View ArticleWH Smith is latest Whitgift Centre store to shut up shop
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest (partial) closure on Croydon’s already badly run-down High Street WH Smith, one of the mainstays of the Whitgift Centre ever since it opened more...
View ArticleAmazon invites you to check out its store with no check-outs
A new supermarket opened in central Croydon this morning that promises value products and, with the use of Amazon technology, no queues and no check-outs. There’s also introductory money-off offers...
View ArticleWhitgift 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...
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