[2] A number of sources reported that in September 2022, Aldi overtook Morrisons to become Great Britain's fourth largest grocery retailer.
[17] Britain's first out of town supermarket was opened by American retailer GEM in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire by in November 1964.
[111][76][112] The stores of Wright's and Moores were merged into a new group, Cavenham-Southland, part owned by 7-eleven owner Southland Corporation.
The stores were later transferred to Cavenham's Allied Suppliers division after it purchase in 1976, and were either rebranded under the Liptons or Presto nameplates.
Proximity to a supermarket has been widely reported[172][173][174] to be an amenity that can have a significant effect on residential property prices in Britain.
Beginning under Andy Hulme[175] and continuing under Mike Songer,[176] the home mortgage unit of Lloyds Bank has published pricing research that examines the premiums commanded by homes in a given neighbourhood against comparables in the same post-code and correlates the difference in price with convenience of access to the various supermarkets.