Sainsbury's Local opening on the 18th December near the plough

[GregI]

According to the planning docs, the Sainsburys will be open 7-11 daily

[TJ]

anyone know the planned opening date?

we need to raise an ED welcoming committee (massed ranks of prams and chaps demanding prosecco).

[LordLane]

the planned date for the opening of the store is the december 18th 2009.

[Ratpack]

Had a look on planning application on railings outside - says Sainsburys.

[Ant]

There are signs up on the boards now saying Sainsbos are coming.

[geniepepper]

I think its brill that we are getting a sainsbo local, after all it could have been Foxtons moving in with a mega mega store

[Nero]

Hoo-bloody-rah! At least it means that me and other U E Siders won't have to drag our sorry bods off to the hell that is Co-Op on FHR when we need some (insert everyday foodstuff here, which Co-Op is v unlikely to have anyway). Nectar points, too! Double word score.

[Mick Mac]

Great news - Then I can get a decent bottle of wine near the bus stop on the way home - good stuff.

Just need Tea Amore to open earlier in the morning to get a coffee on the way to work and I'm all sorted on the drinks front.

[Bic Basher]

Do we really need a pound shop in SE22? Penge's main post office is now part of a tacky bargain basement shop where you have to walk through shelves of tat to get to the PO.

Surely the owner can do better than this?

[????]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Great news - Then I can get a decent bottle of

> wine near the bus stop on the way home - good

> stuff.

> Just need Tea Amore to open earlier in the morning

> to get a coffee on the way to work and I'm all

> sorted on the drinks front.

Fallen off the Wagon yet Mick?

[TJ]

Very glad it is sainsburys and coming soon. Still wish it was M&S simply food though.

[Brendan]

Can?t say I can see a Sainsbury?s on the corner being of any use to me.

Granted, I don?t actually know where the food in my house comes from, suffice to say that there seems to be a regular supply, but whenever I do need odds and ends I can generally find them at Val?s.

Sometimes however I do have to go to the horrendous inconvenience of getting off the bus a couple of stops early to go to Green and Blue or Bosman?s and then walk the last ten minutes home.

[brum]

You're a lucky man, Brendan, and you probably don't realise it...

I'm very excited about the new Sainsbury's. A decent shop within walking distance of my abode. Can't wait.

[cathg]

And there in the last two posts you have ED in a nutshell. A nation divided. (see also posts on CPZs, William Rose, any curry house you care to mention, etc). About the only thing that unites us is the brilliance of SMBJones.

[Brendan]

And socks, I don?t know anyone who doesn?t think that socks are a good idea.

[Brendan]

brum Wrote:

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> You're a lucky man, Brendan, and you probably

> don't realise it...

Oh I do brum, very much so. It?s why I gloat about it.

[DonGee]

whhooo can't wait no more trekking down to Somerfield / iceland.

[Jamma]

With a Sainsburys Local round the corner I might be able to sell my car because I'll no longer need to go up the DKH supermarket. More money, less carbon footprint, this shop could change my life.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Excellent...not too far to go for this non driver who has a baby that gets through a planet destroying amount of nappies....

[Asset]

you could try re-useables, save you a lot of money.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I did start on re-useables ( ask the nappy lady) but my son is such a heavy wetter that I was constantly changing them and he would get leakages. Not nice having to change a damp new born baby quite a few time during the night, I kept it up until he was 5 weeks and he ended up in hospital with a serious UTI. Since we were in hospital for a few days it was disposables, and as he gets through around 15 nappies a day ( I have to change him up to four times in the night alone as his nappies gets very wet and heavy that it starts leaking if I don't and he poos so much also) I have decided to hold off the re-usables until he is weaned in a few months ( I have ittis and tots bots all waiting for to be used!). He shall be my eco warrior but just not right now.

[ultrauk]

Looks like this place is finally happening. :)-DWonder what will become of the 2 Off Licences either side of it & the Costcutters? When i told the Costcutter Manager of the Sainsburys opening a few months ago his face nearly dropped. They will really have to UP their gain now.Hope they survive the big boys.

[Jeremy]

I don't see the big deal about losing a costcutter. I'm all for local independant shops which offer something different, but Costcutter doesn't really fall into this category.

[Sue]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I don't see the big deal about losing a

> costcutter. I'm all for local independant shops

> which offer something different, but Costcutter

> doesn't really fall into this category.

xxxxxxx

But we can't all be creative shopkeepers, and some poor person has presumably bought the franchise at Costcutter

[Jeremy]

OK... yeah on a personal level obviously you have to feel sorry for the owner of the costcutter.

But as for the shop itself, will anyone really miss it? Surely Sainsbury's sell better quality grub.