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Title: morisons comes to marple
Post by: amazon on May 24, 2011, 08:57:45 PM: morisons are considering a bid for iceland stores so we could have morisons as well as an ASDA . ;)
Title: Re: morisons comes to marple
Post by: Harry on May 24, 2011, 10:32:34 PM: Checked the finance pages and its true.

Marvelous news. A bit of competition for the Co-op and a choice for the people of Marple who can't get about.
Title: Re: morisons comes to marple
Post by: sgk on May 24, 2011, 10:37:39 PM: Quote from: Harry on May 24, 2011, 10:32:34 PM
And your source for this is... ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/22/morrisons-iceland-sale-landsbanki (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/22/morrisons-iceland-sale-landsbanki)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8529576/Morrisons-talks-to-banks-over-Iceland-bid.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8529576/Morrisons-talks-to-banks-over-Iceland-bid.html)
etc.
Title: Re: morisons comes to marple
Post by: marveld on May 24, 2011, 10:43:22 PM: Marvelous news. A bit of competition for the Co-op. (http://Marvelous news. A bit of competition for the Co-op.)

Er??? Why would this be more of a competition for the Co-op if Morrisons occupied the same building as Iceland do now?
Title: Re: morisons comes to marple
Post by: amazon on May 25, 2011, 04:17:39 PM: Quote from: marveld on May 24, 2011, 10:43:22 PM
Marvelous news. A bit of competition for the Co-op. (http://Marvelous news. A bit of competition for the Co-op.)

Er??? Why would this be more of a competition for the Co-op if Morrisons occupied the same building as Iceland do now?
latest news iceland exellent sales figures for last quorter means morrison going to have to bid a lot more .
Title: Re: morisons comes to marple
Post by: ROTHERS on May 31, 2011, 01:24:25 PM: Morrisons plan to leave it as an Iceland. They have purchased a number of Lidl stores too, but leaving them as Lidl.