Supermarkets in the 1970s

Shipley Market Square, 1970s — Shipley Market Square in the 1970s. Note Liptons Store. "Shipley Market Square 1970s" by shipley43 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Cropped)

How many of these supermarkets from the 1970s are still around today? How many do you remember?

These are some of the supermarket and grocery chains from the 1970s:

Allied Suppliers (Liptons)
Asda
Batemans - South Wales & West England
Co-op
Fine Fare
Gateway
David Greig - London & South England
Hintons (Amos Hinton) - North East England
Gem Super Centres (part of Asda)
Grandways (part of William Jackson)
Jackon (William Jackson) - Yorks, Lincs, Notts
International Stores
Key Markets - South England, Midlands, Wales
Low (Wm Low) - Scotland
Mace
Mac Fisheries and Mac Markets
Marks & Spencer
Moores Stores
Pricerite
Safeway
J Sainsbury
Tesco
F W Woolworth & Co
Spar
Vivo
Mace
Kebby's Supermarkets (Unigate)
VG
Waitrose
Woolworth

Liptons, Newton Road, High Heaton, 1970s — Liptons, Newton Road, High Heaton, Newcastle, 1970s (image public domain)

Some of these chains traded under a variety of different local names. These are a few examples:

Allied Suppliers Ltd

Allied Suppliers' main brand was Liptons. They also sold Sunshine, Beach's and Jaunty products.

Their store names were:

Maypole
Andrew Cochrane
Galbraith's Stores
Home & Colonial Stores
Lipton
A Massey
R & J Templeton
Broughs
Vye & Son
Markdown
Presto

Fine Fare

The Fine Fare stores included:

Fine Fare
Coopers
Pay-Less
Elmo Stores
Waterworth Bros
Welwyn Department Store
Hodgson & Hepworth
Blower Bros
J C Carline
William Cussons
Buywell
Forrest
Hudson

Supermarket shopping in the 1970s Image by jackcast2015 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

International Stores

International incorporated the following other trade names:

Ridgways
Payantake Stores
Kilby
Kibby's Granville
Mason
Pegram
Orme

Key Markets

Key Markets also traded as:

Barrows
World's
Walkers
Green & Dyson
Hale

Moores

Moores also traded as:

Pinks
Gallons
Gowers & Burgon
Thrift
Hay
Thompsons
Seymour Mead
Farrands
Peglers

References

The information on this page was mainly compiled from :

'Where to buy groceries' published by The Consumers' Association in 'Which?', November 1971 pages 324-330
'Buying groceries' published by The Consumers' Association in 'Which?', November 1972 pages 329-336

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Chris

Remember going to Carlines supermarket with my grandma in the mid 60's

4th October 2021 10:02am

Reuben Frankau

Chains in the North-East, in addition to Walter Willson (note the double L) and Hinton's, does anyone remember L & N Stores, a/k/a L & N Supply Co. a/k/a London & Newcastle Tea Company? It would appear L & N Stores were in some way subsumed into Fine Fare during the 1960s, but they still had a few branches on Tyneside until the 1980s. Would be interested to hear if anyone else has come across L & N or remembers this brand.

21st June 2021 12:00am

Matt Ratcliffe

BUDGENS HAS QUITE A HISTORY IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND, ;WHO IN THE 1980S TOOK OVER BISHOPS SUPERMARKETS.

12th June 2021 12:00am

Matt Ratcliffe

Chains in the north east of England you can add, Laws Stores and Walter Wilsons and Hintons, Hintons was taken over by presto and later became Safeway. Laws stores was taken over by Low this bringing low into the north east of England.

12th June 2021 12:00am

Stuart Cubech

Wow, this list brings back some memories I also remember "Wavy Line" and "Liptons"

11th November 2020 12:00am