hillards supermarkets

[jason h]

Re: hillards supermarkets

Yes, Hillards! Through-out most of the 80s we had one about half a mile from my house. It was used for our main weekly shop. We had no car back then so we had to walk the shopping back ourselves (or wait for a bus). I remember a bingo promotion they were running where each time you did your shopping, they would give you a stirp of bingo numbers/stickers. You had to fill in the bingo sheets with your numbers untill you had a full house. I remember my Mum telling the next-door neighbour that we would do our bingo together to stand a better chance of winning, then share the money; I can't remember what the jackpot was.

I also remeber the Save Our Hillards campaign they were running up to the time when they were taken over by Tesco. They had this 'Save Our Hillards' written on the shopping trolleys.

Here is the very Hillards supermarket we used to shop at.

[catflap]

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i dont remember these supermarkets.

perhaps they where just in certain regions i never seen them here in N.I.

I only remember the one. Nothing like as widespread as the Big 4 are now.

[darren]

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i dont remember these supermarkets.

perhaps they where just in certain regions i never seen them here in N.I.

[stuckinthepast77]

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thanks for your reply catflap,any memories of hillards are welcome!oh and they must have issued carrier bags at some point as i have one-well part of one anyway-found it on a long since forgotten tip near me!
please keep your memories coming everyone

[catflap]

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thought it would be cool for people to put up their memories of hillards supermarkets.they were a yorkshire based firm that got took over in 1987 by tescos.we had 2 near me-1 in pontefract on cornmarket (its now tescos) and one in wakefield (next to the old bus station)and the site is now a car park sadly:cry:
if anyone has pics of particularly the ones in wakefield or pontefract it would be great to see them again,or any hillards pics or advertising in general that would be fab!
andy

I used to live in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire and we had one there for a while.

I remember taking shopping home in cardboard boxes they had at the back of the shops - no carrier bags in sight. This is also when you had people manually entering the prices of goods instead of just scanning them

They always had a sign up in there saying 'Ladies - Beware of the Handbag Thief' - I imagine lots of places had that though...

Sorry - turning into a general 70s memoried of supermarkets rather than Hillards specifically!

[stuckinthepast77]

thought it would be cool for people to put up their memories of hillards supermarkets.they were a yorkshire based firm that got took over in 1987 by tescos.we had 2 near me-1 in pontefract on cornmarket (its now tescos) and one in wakefield (next to the old bus station)and the site is now a car park sadly:cry:
if anyone has pics of particularly the ones in wakefield or pontefract it would be great to see them again,or any hillards pics or advertising in general that would be fab!
andy