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The Calcot SavaCentre was further extended by 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m 2) in the 1990/91 financial year, but when the store was rebranded as Sainsbury's in 2005, the extension was sold off to Next with other shops Sports Direct, Dunelm and Boots .
The fourth Savacentre opened in October 1980, at Oldbury in the West Midlands, and the fifth in September of the following year at Calcot, a suburb of Reading. These stores were so large that air handling units had to be airlifted onto their roofs by helicopter !
Sainsbury's Superstore occupies a prime place in SavaCentre situated on Bath Road, approximately a 3.67 mile driving distance west of the centre of Reading, in Calcot ( close to Calcot Recreation Ground and Calcot Junior School ). This supermarket primarily serves patrons from the districts of Burghfield Common, Englefield, Fords Farm, Calcot ...
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- Bath Road, Reading, RG31 7SA, Berks
Jul 19, 2020 · AISLE bet you remember Basildon's beloved SavaCentre! This year marks 40 years since the much-hyped hypermarket of its day opened its doors. The grand opening was March 18, 1980 and although it ...
Contains colour and black and white photographs, slides and contact sheets of the Savacentre at Calcot. Images of Calcot (Reading) Savacentre store 1980s-1990s 'Briefing: A Savacentre News report'
2 February 2001 2 min read. Sainsbury's has opened up 3,000 square feet of previously redundant space at the back of its Calcot Savacentre in Reading to make space for a state of the art IT training facility for the local community.
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16 August 2002 2 min read. The multiple has invested £13m in developing its first Savacentre in nine years, and the new store in Northfield, Birmingham, has the potential to become Sainsbury's 13th highest turnover generator.
