Spar says ta-ra?

[T*]

Literally every Spar in Southport has become a One Stop, and we have a lot of spars. It's quite weird and mysterious, and it means that we have mini tescos EVERYWHERE now.

Is this happening to anyone else's spars? :shrug:

[fingers]

Literally every Spar in Southport has become a One Stop, and we have a lot of spars. It's quite weird and mysterious, and it means that we have mini tescos EVERYWHERE now.

Is this happening to anyone else's spars? :shrug:

I think I've seen a OneStop but never connected it with Spar.

Edit: > http://www.just-food.com/news/oft-clears-one-stops-acquisition-of-spar-franchisee-stores_id124528.aspx

[T*]

I hope this really cool spar in Liverpool doesn't change to a onestop
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8188/8102957867_5d858fac18_o.jpg

[Me. I Am Salman]

wtf is a spar

[Me. I Am Salman]

and what's a one stop. we have places called one stop shops run by the council for things like housing issues

[fingers]

wtf is a spar

You Really MUST have lived a sheltered life!

[Me. I Am Salman]

I've never seen Spar in my life, I'm guessing it's probably some stupid irrelevant shop which is more prominent in the North, don't think there even is one here

[lostalex]

it sounds german.

[Me. I Am Salman]

ew I've just googled it's ugly and would only suit a petrol station

[T*]

It's originally dutch

[fingers]

it sounds german.Of course, because they had them first, just like Albrecht (Aldi) and Lidl and Netto!

[T*]

I've never seen Spar in my life, I'm guessing it's probably some stupid irrelevant shop which is more prominent in the North, don't think there even is one here

"Spar is the worlds largest international food chain"
Really salman?

[T*]

Of course, because they had them first, just like Albrecht (Aldi) and Lidl and Netto!

It's Dutch :amazed:

[MTVN]

Not a Northern thing, there's quite a few down here, tend to be pretty expensive though and generally quite small corner shop type places

[Me. I Am Salman]

"Spar is the worlds largest international food chain"
Really salman?

I'm 1000000% sure this stupid ****ty shop is not popular at all in London
Tesco > this ugly thing

[lostalex]

i've never heard of it either.

If it's the biggest food store in the world (that means it's even bigger than McDonalds, KFC, Burger King) why haven't I ever heard of it?

[fingers]

It's Dutch :amazed:You are, of course, right - I first came across them in Germany and thought that Spar meant Save (as it does in most Germanic languages) quite why it had a stylized green tree as a logo escaped me until I found that Spar in Dutch means Spruce! hence the logo.

[T*]

They're really popular in Europe, they have hypermarkets called interspar:
http://unternehmen.spar.at.spar.at/rsync_unternehmen_spar_at/presse/download/INTERSPAR-Hypermarkt-Hollabrunn.jpg

[T*]

i've never heard of it either.

If it's the biggest food store in the world (that means it's even bigger than McDonalds, KFC, Burger King) why haven't I ever heard of it?

It's the quote off the website :shrug:
http://www.afblakemore.com/spar/welcome

[fingers]

No stores in North or South America!!

[Josy]

and what's a one stop. we have places called one stop shops run by the council for things like housing issues

That's what our One Stop Shops are too^^^^

But yeah I thought everyone would know what the spar was :laugh:

Most of our spar stores have now been taken over by co-ops/scotmid.

[jackc1806]

I have a one-stop near me

[jackc1806]

But there's a sainsburys and morrisons too though

[Jarrod]

Spar here is here to stay i should think. We have Eurospar and a normal Spar.

[King Gizzard]

There's a tesco opening right next to our local Spar, they aren't happy about it and there have been protests but that didn't stop anything, can't see Spar lasting much longer here even though they've been here since I was born I think

Eurospar is still a pretty massive country european wise though they'll be alright

[BigSister]

we still have our spar even though we also have a mini tesco as well its even been extended so its even bigger than it was.

[Sophiee]

there's a spar in my local town, I hope it doesn't go :sad:. I've never heard of one stop before.