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It is believed that the SavaCentre brand name was scrapped because the SavaCentre format had had mixed success over the years, and it left the option for Sainsbury's to launch a substantial non-food offer in its heritage supermarket estate, under its own brand, in the future.
Mar 21, 2022 · A video of several iconic images taken of the Sainsbury's at Cameron Toll Shopping Centre have surfaced, which show the store in all its glory when it was known as the SavaCentre.
Sainsbury has sold its 71,000 sq ft Savacentre in Basildon to Asda and ruled out any new openings under the brand until it can get the non-food right. The move follows the sale of the Stockton Savacentre last year and the recent downsizing of...
- The Grocer
Savacentre continued to trade profitably for the rest of the 1980s, and in February 1989 opened a store in Merton, southwest London. Just two weeks later came a major development: Sainsbury’s announced the acquisition of BHS’s 50 per cent holding in the company.
SavaCentre was a chain of 13 hypermarkets and later a further seven discount supermarkets owned and operated jointly by Sainsbury's and BHS, beginning in 1977. Sainsbury's later took full control of the stores alone in 1989, rebranding them as Sainsbury's SavaCentre, until 2005 when the stores were integrated into the Sainsbury's supermarket ...
Archive Talk: The History of Savacentre. Listen to Archivist, Allison Foster, give a talk about Sainsbury's answer to the hypermarket.
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Sainsbury’s has begun phasing out its troublesome Savacentre brand by converting the hypermarket sites to standard Sainsbury’s supermarkets and selling off excess space to other retailers.
