The company announced that it would trial running a discount limited range supermarket, opening two pilot stores in November 1990.

The stores were located in Linwood and Bridge of Allan, and were styled like the English discount chain Kwik Save with basic racking and no thrills offers.

By July, Shoprite announced a further profits warning, which resulted in its share price falling to 30p and banks suspending its borrowing rights.

Shoprite's chairman, Deryck Nicholson, whose family owned 50% of the shareholding, was son of one of the founders of Kwik Save.

[8][9] Shoprite Douglas was the first store in the Isle of Man to install a bar-code scanning system at its tills and the Shoprite group was the first supermarket chain in the British Isles to install bar-code scanning systems in all its stores in the early 1980s.

[18] The final stores to close were Peel (Derby Road) and Winerite in Douglas which shut in June 2024.