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Tag Archives: Waitrose
Our shoppers’ guide for the best-buys for Christmas wines
There’s a bewildering choice of wines on offer this festive season. Croydon wine expert ROZ LAWSON offers her best picks from local supermarket shelves – all priced at £10 or less, and starting with a Champagne Lidl Comte de Senneval … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business
Tagged Co-op, Lidl, Marks and Spencer, Roz Lawson, South London Wine School, Tesco, Waitrose
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Call for Coulsdon residents to rally round high street business
While failed Mayor Jason Perry congratulates Westfield on opening a handful of kiosks in Allders after 14 years, one residents’ association in the south of the borough is calling on its members and their neighbours to redirect their energy, and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Coulsdon West Residents' Association
Tagged Allders, Core 6 Studios, Costa Coffee, Coulsdon West RA, Coulsdon West Residents' Association, Croydon, CWRA, Hammersfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Waitrose, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Waitrose re-opens in Coulsdon after multi-million makeover
Waitrose Coulsdon has reopened following a multi-million-pound refurbishment. The branch, which has been at the Brighton Road site since October 1971, was back in business yesterday morning “primed and ready to greet customers with everything from fresh produce and the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town
Tagged Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Waitrose
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Bromley green lights John Lewis’s 24-storey housing scheme
Bromley’s Conservative-controlled council has granted planning permission to John Lewis for the “Waitrose Tower” which, at 24 storeys, is much taller than any development given the green light in any Croydon district centre. The £500million project will take until 2029 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Marks and Spencer, NatWest Bank, Sainsbury's, Sainsbury's Local, Waitrose, Westfield, WH Smith, Whitgift Centre
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Amazon 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 that can save first-time shoppers £10. Amazon Fresh has opened … Continue reading
Posted in Business, East Croydon, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Fresh, East Croydon station, George Street, Ruskin Square, Waitrose
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WH 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 than 50 years ago, is about to downsize … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, North End, Waitrose, Westfield, WH Smith, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Waitrose’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 arm of the John Lewis Partnership … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business
Tagged Croydon, George Street, Hammersfield, Hammerson, John Lewis, Waitrose, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Waitrose 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 larger local garden centres. Part … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council
Tagged Dobbies, Waitrose, Woodcote Green
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Red 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 workers redundant. As exclusively revealed by Inside … Continue reading
Waitrose 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 “executive apartments” in Croydon town centre, this morning … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business
Tagged Croydon, George Street, Hammersfield, Hammerson, John Lewis, Waitrose, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Local 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 around 200 professional journalists. The Croydon branch of … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Guardian, Local media
Tagged Croydon Guardian, East Croydon station, Waitrose
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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 remember this…
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 George Street in central … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Croydon Central, East Croydon
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Waitrose
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Time to talk turkey over Christmas plans in Croydon
In spite of the tinsel and holly wreaths going up in parts of Croydon in mid-August, here at Inside Croydon Towers, being arch-traditionalists, we tend not to even start to think about festive season preparations until Bonfire Night and Remembrance … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Outside Croydon, Walks, Wildlife
Tagged Christmas, Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, Oaks Park, Sainsbury, Tesco, Waitrose
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