Big D already closed?
 

its got closed due to relocation to preston notices on its doors :S

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wont be missed!:rolleyes:
now maybe someone can open a decent shop;)

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*LMAO*

chances of that happenin? its gonna yet another discount store :(

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all we need now is a tower built and we will be just like blackpool!!:D

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Where/what is it?

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the place formerly known as gynnwebb on blackburn road

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never heard of it.:confused:

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Thanks.

Blimey, that didn't last long.

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ta mani, only been open a few month i think.never went in it.

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i reckon that shop would of been better used as a B & M than the former kwik save store

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If Glynn Webb couldnt make a profit there it stands to reason that another retailer selling the same sort of goods would fail too. Glynn Webb used to be busy when it sold mainly cheap paint and wallpaper. When it started selling cheap vases, kitchen utensils and furniture it went downhill.
As it is away from the town centre it needs to sell (cheaply) something that cant be got in town --suggestions anyone?

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Thats an easy one, sell anything for more than £1 :D

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Well, that didn't last long.

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I think it would with a little work make a brilliant car dealership, there is so many uses for a building of that size in such a good location.

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thats what it used to be,i think about 45 yrs ago.be funny if it became one again.:)

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Wow i never knew (im only 19so its a bit before my time lol). Think i should become an estate agent.

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I didn't know that either, was it 3 tier then or did Asda build the ramp and the upper floor?

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As a slight aside the place underneath the bingo hall which I think is now a car mechanics place used to be a warehouse for the CO-OP that was in the centre of town. All the electrical goods were kept there. Certainly multi-use buildings in that part of town :)

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it would be a good place for a car dealership but the area is not conventiant

dont know what it should be maybe a jjb or jd out of store retail park thing.

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When that building (which burnt down) changed from selling cars to be the 1st ASDA, I was a new housewife and shopped there. That ramp from the kiosk foyer area up to the supermarket shelved area was designed for cars and it took some skill to stop a fully trolley from taking off at speed on its own.
The racks of shelving were placed very close together and if 2 people stopped to select items opposite each other there was a traffic jam of people behind them. Shopping there was a nightmare but because it was the cheapest in town, everybody did.
The name ASDA was originally Associated Dairies - a farmers co-operative.

PS the bingo hall was a coop furniture saleroom

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That would explain why the Co-op retained the basement when it was converted then. I often wondered why they used it :)

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The Oxford St side of the building has the Coop lettering in stone up near the roof - was built by and for them.