{"id":15728,"date":"2016-02-28T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15728"},"modified":"2016-02-28T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:14:08","slug":"news-from-northcourt-budgens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15728","title":{"rendered":"Two News Stories about Northcourt Budgens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16022803.jpg\" alt=\"Northcourt Budgens\" \/><br \/>\nThere have been two recent news stories about Northcourt Budgens. The post office in the Budgens at Northcourt Road, Abingdon, has recently had a revamp and now opens for longer, and provides more services.<\/p>\n<p>The other story appeared in the Abingdon Streetlife forum, as well as a retail trends website, called <a href=\"http:\/\/retailanalysis.igd.com\/Hub.aspx?id=23&#038;tid=3&#038;nid=14873\">IGD Retail Analysis<\/a>. The Co-op has acquired 15 Budgens stores from Booker. The stores are located in Bedgrove, Bradford-on-Avon, Byfleet, Chalfont St Peter, Crouch End, East Barnet, Fakenham, Fulham, Grange Park, <b>Northcourt<\/b>, Parsons Green, Ripley, Sandy, Tysoe Street and Walton on the Hill. <\/p>\n<p>Steve Murrells, chief executive, of retail at The Co-operative Food, said &#8220;<i>Co-op Food continues to go from strength to strength, with a clear strategy that focuses on the growing convenience store market&#8221;,<\/i> and intends to acquire 100 stores this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16022802.jpg\" alt=\"Northcourt Budgens\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile the large ex Co-op in Bury Street is still empty. It closed in May 2015 as the Co-op rationalised its retail outlets in Abingdon town centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been two recent news stories about Northcourt Budgens. The post office in the Budgens at Northcourt Road, Abingdon, has recently had a revamp and now opens for longer, and provides more services. The other story appeared in the Abingdon Streetlife forum, as well as a retail trends website, called IGD Retail Analysis. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}