Home and Colonial Stores
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Home and Colonial Stores was once one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains. Its formation of a vast chain of retail stores in the late 1920s is seen as the first step in the development of a
Shop assistants outside the Home and Colonial Stores on Broad Street, Waterford, May 1910
Presto (UK supermarket)
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Presto Foodmarkets was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in Great Britain, which first appeared in the early 1960s. While the fate of most of the chain's stores was conversion to Safeway,
Home and Colonial Stores
…James Goldsmith. The business purchased the South East-based supermarket chain Cater Brothers from Debenhams in 1979, and converted the stores into its Presto brand. By 1981, Allied had a turnover of £800 million. In the following year it was acquired by James Gulliver's Argyll Foods; five years later Argyll…
Presto Food Market, Cheltenham, 1982
A former Presto store in Cornhill, Aberdeen. The tiles behind the counter are a clear remnant of the store's Presto era