{"id":25278,"date":"2006-09-28T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/09\/28\/somerfield\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:10:00","slug":"somerfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25278","title":{"rendered":"Somerfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/somcoop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/somcoop.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A moment of nostalgia with this picture from November 2004. It was taken at a time when every fifth or sixth car on the road was still a Rover, and the old Co-op had a poster promising &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Somerfield Tokens accepted in this store today<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rover Group were living on the never never and were to go bankrupt early in 2005. At about the same time the old Co-op building was demolished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/somerfield2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/somerfield2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The Somerfield supermarket has made less headlines than the Co-op. I do remember Gateway Foodstore being renamed as Somerfield. More recently Somerfield were the first supermarket I noticed giving out biodegradable carrier bags. Their SaverCard was stange, only SaverCard owners got most of the discount offers ( and some people got a SaverCard every time they shopped to get the discount).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/somerweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/somerweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Last year Somerfield was taken over by a consortium that has tried to simplify the business. It got rid of the SaverCard, and rebranded the Somerfield brand range as &#8216;Simply Value&#8217;, and relaunched the website shown here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/somerfield3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/somerfield3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/mother-and-child.html\">Belsky Mother and Child<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span> statue with Somerfields of Abingdon in the background. The shop carries on regardless, while elsewhere in the Somerfield company great mergers and sell-offs have happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1980s. Gateway acquire Keymarkets, Lennons, International Stores, Fine Fare and Carrefour Hypermarkets.<\/li>\n<li>1994. Gateway renamed as Somerfield.<\/li>\n<li>1998. Somerfield acquire Kwik Save.<\/li>\n<li>2000. Somerfield sell off larger stores.<\/li>\n<li>2004. Somerfield acquire 100+ Safeway stores<\/li>\n<li>2005. Somerfield acquired by a consortium<\/li>\n<li>2006. Somerfield sell off Kwik Save.<\/li>\n<li>2006. Somerfield sell off underperforming stores (including some Kwik Saves that had been rebranded as Somerfields but only a sign and a splash of paint).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moment of nostalgia with this picture from November 2004. It was taken at a time when every fifth or sixth car on the road was still a Rover, and the old Co-op had a poster promising &#8220;Somerfield Tokens accepted in this store today.&#8221; Rover Group were living on the never never and were to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278","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=25278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}