Sainsburys Plan New Ashley Down Shop

bristol | community | news report Sunday February 04, 2007 20:31 by Sam

Many of Indymedia's readers will already be aware that the proposed/opposed supermarket development for the Ashley Down/Mid Gloucester Road area will, if it goes ahead, be a Sainsburys: not, as previously supposed, a Tescos. The existing Gloucester Road Sainsburys convenience store will close, and a new much bigger Sainsburys will open adjacent to the existing John Cabot public house on Ashley Down Road. There is some sense of relief that the proposed new store will not be a Tescos, and it seems possible that the well-established Somerfield supermarket will be able to survive through its policy of affordable pricing and maintain itself as current local shoppers favourite. Doubtless others in the Indymedia network will have relevant info to add.