Fine Fare

[patrickblue]

Re: Fine Fare

Mace, Wavy Line, VG and Spar were not shop chains as such, but sort of discount clubs that independant shopkeepers belonged to. I'm not sure how it worked, but I assume that belonging to to these would enable the shops to buy at a bigger discount in exchange for a fee or percentage of profit. I don't remember them doing own brand products apart from matches.
Incidentally, Spar is still going

[badfelafel]

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I remember 2 local Fine Fares - one in Giffnock, after it closed that place never lasted long as any particular store. The other was on Victoria Road in Glasgow, its now a Lidl - I remember there used to be a free 767 bus for pensioners that went on the 44 route but stopped at Fine Fare.

Galbraiths - that brings back memories! Cant remember where they were though

[Trickyvee]

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There was Hintons too. Sort of half way between being a local shop and a supermarket. Not sure if this was just a North Eastern company. The shops appeared just after the likes of Liptons etc closed in the mid 80s but died a death in the late 80s/early 90s when all the big out of town supermarkets were built.

[Trickyvee]

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I remember Fine Fare and I thought I must have made up Wavy Line as a shop as it is such a stupid name but someone else has mentioned it on here too. I have memories of an advert for Mace and Wavy Line. Was it one shop or two shops run by the same company? Most of the local shops near me were Liptons. I used to like the carrier bags with the big leaf on them.

[FLYING SAUCER]

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I do like the colour Orange though! but not with brown - goes better with olive green grey or black!

[memoman]

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Who on earth designs these uniforms for the poor staff? I reckon the Bosses get together and say"ok, if we put em in a horrid uniform it will break their confidence and they will be sumissive employees!" Well it's just a hought!

Right, WAVEY LINE - Seem to remember this as a blue "WAVEY" and underneath the word "LINE" in red and under that a wavey wriggly line! and they were mostly in shops around the south coast area? Yes?

yes but remember thae houses from the seventies colours and styles were not so subtle.We all seemed to have mellowed out since then.And things don't clash as much?

[FLYING SAUCER]

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Who on earth designs these uniforms for the poor staff? I reckon the Bosses get together and say"ok, if we put em in a horrid uniform it will break their confidence and they will be sumissive employees!" Well it's just a hought!

Right, WAVEY LINE - Seem to remember this as a blue "WAVEY" and underneath the word "LINE" in red and under that a wavey wriggly line! and they were mostly in shops around the south coast area? Yes?

[anorak07]

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Hi i think this is the type of overall fro Fine Fare in the 70,s.

[Kiop]

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My missus used to work at Fine Fare in the early 80's on the deli counter and she informs me she used to wear a sage green colour uniform.

I only ever remember the brown ones though.

[Richard1978]

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Weren't the uniforms brown with orange piping?

That colour scheme was all the rage in the 1970s, WHS & Stockport MBC used it for their corparate colours until the 1990s.

[steveffisher]

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Weren't the uniforms brown with orange piping?

[anorak07]

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I honestly can't remember! Possibly brown in colour, but equally possibly small pale blue checked gingham. I only remember it being a nasty little zip-up overall affair. Don't know if the checkout staff had different attire to us drones or not, my shelf stacking was always done after hours.

Hi again i remember when i was a kid in 1973 the powercuts were common due to strikes and all the freezers went of in the local fine fare and 2 girls in brown overalls were leaning over the ice cream one trying to scoop what they could out with there hands and what a mess they were in . I bet you wish you still had the uniforms to re live those glorious days.

[sixtyten]

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I seem to recall it was a horrid shade of Brown

[mazzer]

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Hi there was that the uniforms in bright orange with a different colour down the front? I haven,t seen those uniforms for years, very smart

I honestly can't remember! Possibly brown in colour, but equally possibly small pale blue checked gingham. I only remember it being a nasty little zip-up overall affair. Don't know if the checkout staff had different attire to us drones or not, my shelf stacking was always done after hours.

[kazboot]

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My local shop in the 70s was a Wavy Line, but our nearest supermarket was Fine Fare.