Fine Fare

[memoman]

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Our last fine fare is currently a heron frozen food store.

[anorak07]

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No, but I wore one! I used to work as a shelf stacker at Wm Low's in Dumfries after school in my early teens.

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

[mazzer]

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Fine Fare - didn't their telly ad campaign involve a cartoon talking purse, which conversed with its owners about what to buy. I recall one ad when they were choosing meat and the purse was saying "Ah, scrag end, a delightful cut...". Purse was persuaded to buy some posher meat as the prices were so low.

[mazzer]

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Hi there does anyone have any pics of the shop uniforms the girls worn in any of these shops or of Wm Low which later was bought by Tesco. Thanks.

No, but I wore one! I used to work as a shelf stacker at Wm Low's in Dumfries after school in my early teens.

[old git]

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Dont remember Fine Fare but we did have a Shopers Paradise! and believe it or not there's still a VG's near me.

[FX02]

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According to wikipedia, Chelsea Girl turned into River Island

I remember going to Fine Fare in Banbury with my Mum in the late 70's early 80's. There were 2 large stone columns outside the shop and all the kids used to play by them while thier parents did the shopping. I think the building is now QS or something.

[anorak07]

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Hi there does anyone have any pics of the shop uniforms the girls worn in any of these shops or of Wm Low which later was bought by Tesco. Thanks.

[steveffisher]

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Oh my God! FineFare! How old am I exactly? I remember them. And wasn't there another called 'SaveRite' (sp)? Went down the pan same time as Timothy White's.

[ianjmcd]

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here ya go finefare logo

[tulip]

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Yup,we had Fine fare,then it was Gateway,then Asda.Its now a secondd hand shop and market.Asda has moved across the road and is bigger.

tulip

[Derekflint]

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I definitely remember when Fine Fare had a store in Middle Street, Yeovil. It closed late 70s (circa 1977/78), and Primark moved into the premises they vacated.

As for the double f logo, I remember that well, though at the time the Yeovil store was still trading (I was just a young kid), it just looked like a funny shape to me, I didn't get what it meant at the time.

The Fine Fare league for football was still going in the mid eighties in some parts of the country. Mid to late 80s (1866/87?) I think Fine Fare, Carrefour (UK) and Gateway amalgamated.

Can't remember the Fine Fare, but I do remember the Tesco down the bottom of the town before it moved. Mainly because at Xmas it was a bit of alright in the toy department, and there was the little toyshop opposite.

Timothy Whites - haven't thought of those stores for a long time.

Winkworths of Taunton and Bridgwater - the one in Taunton was tiny by comparison.

[Teejay]

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I remember Fine Fare, and International stores, and Wavy Line.

No-one seems to have mentioned Presto yet - "You'll be impressed at Prestos!"

Then there was Woolco which was a part of Woolworths.

Which reminds me - Whatever happened to Woolworths? Remember them?

What about Shoppers Paradise? Wasn't it just... with it's "no frills" line of dour looking groceries in white packaging with black writing.....

[ridski]

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We used to do all our weekly shopping in Fine Fare on Inverness Street in Camden Town. I think it's a Wagamama now. There used to be a Co-Op right by the corner of Camden High Street and Parkway that is now a Barclays bank. Then again, Camden is totally different from when I was a kid.

[Richard1978]

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I vaguely remember Finefare, I remember Liptons better though, my mum worked in our local one in Marple, Cheshire(where I am originally from) before I was born, and then went back a few years later until it eventually closed in the mid eighties. It was a good shop, though I think it was quite expensive for the time.

I'm from Marple too, but now live in Stockport.

My Mum used to shop about once a week at Hyde's Fine Fare in the 1980s. Stockport was very slow to have a bit supermarked then in 1986 they opened a Sainsburys & Asda at almost the same time & right next to each other.

I started to look up about Fine Fare after I found a picture of one online: Fare's fair at Fine Fare! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I still remembered the logo after all these years, one odd thing FF did was have a code number on the sticky labels rather than a price, but it still had to be keyed in, as this was before the days of barcodes.

When I was young Marple had a Dee Discount, which became a Gateway, as did all the Fine Fares due to a merger. I'm surprised that such a big brand was allowed to fall by the wayside.

The same shop went through a few rebrands & changes of owner to became an Iceland.

Liptons became a Hanburys, a local chain which the Co-op I think bought up. This has been empty for a few years, but there have been plans to open a gym or a Weatherspoons in it. When it was a Liptons it had an upstairs cafe which went when they left.

Wasn't Timothy White's part of Boots? My parents got our first barbeque from the Stockport branch in the early 1980s.

Stockport also had a Chelsea Girl in the mid 1980s, not sure what it became.

[john]

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I vaguely remember Finefare, I remember Liptons better though, my mum worked in our local one in Marple, Cheshire(where I am originally from) before I was born, and then went back a few years later until it eventually closed in the mid eighties. It was a good shop, though I think it was quite expensive for the time.