Re: Lost Retail Chains
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:12 pmMori wrote:Bayne and Ducket shoe shops, Batta shoes also Saxone, a few Nicols stores Hardware shops dont know if they were national or local businesess, Scotmid shops mostly lothian based i think was owned by the co-op (i think).
Peasrsons on victoria rd was local and dont think there were other branches, is Crockets in W Nile st still there ? was also a single branch i think.
George boyd ironmongery were in the east end had expanded in to several buiding and decor shops in the area with the name Graham.
There were sweet and tobaco shops with the name Birrell i can recal somewhere.
Scotmid shops are still going strong - in fact they bought Botterills Convenience Stores (of Blantyre) last year & have just finished transferring 49 stores from the Spar brand over to the Scotmid one.
Not owned by the Coop - we just buy our stock from CRTG (Cooperative Retail Trading Group).
They are Edinburgh based, made up from a few Cooperative societies over the years.
"Over the years since its inception, St Cuthbert's had been strengthened by its amalgamation with a great many small localised societies, however the most significant merger was to come in January 1981 when it was agreed to join forces with the Dalziel Society of Motherwell, a move which was taken to ensure future growth and extend trading areas. The famous name of St Cuthbert's disappeared into history as the new combined Scottish Midland Co-operative Society, Scotmid for short, was formed.
The subsequent years of the 1980's saw numerous other small societies from throughout central Scotland flocking to join the new and exciting Co-op, even in recent years small societies have continued to join forces with Scotmid, the latest being the transfer of the North Tayside, Strathaven and Kilwinning Society in 1998."
I was thinking about that one when reading this thread the other day. I got a wee bit stuck at the list of shop names (a catalogue of shops? Yes, you may groan now.) but you've got them all.
