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Local discussion: Sainsbury's is coming to Stroud Green Road - Woody's is going!

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- CommentAuthorDonnaW
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010 edited
Just got a google alert: http://www.markpack.org.uk/sainsburys-is-coming-to-stroud-green-road/
- CommentAuthorBusby
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
DonnaW - you really mean is that Sainsbury's will be in SGRoad again. They had a shop there until about 1952/3. I remember it well because my best pal's father was a Sainsbury's Area manager and that was on his territory. Apart from which I recall how the whole floor was covered in sawdust (as were most butchers' floors by the way) fresh in the morning and swept clean in the evening.
- CommentAuthorcharlieboy
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
Hooray!!

I hear Tallboy is especially excited.

Already ordered a nectar card in anticipation..
- CommentAuthorADGS
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
Pretty much everyone should have a Nectar card anyway, it works for dozens of online shops including stuff like Amazon and Play.com, and if you're not already on Lovefilm they'll give you points for doing a free trial.
- CommentAuthorMarquis
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
Doesn't the Nectar card also give you airmiles? In which case (and in any other) I'd be most grateful for someone explaining how to actually claim them. I probably have two equators worth by now and have no idea to get hold of them.
- CommentAuthormarkpack
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
I trust it's Stroud Green Road rather than me that your Google Alerts are keeping tabs on Donna!

@Busby Can you remember where along the road it used to be?
- CommentAuthordoctorlalloo
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
Nectar cards are evil.
- CommentAuthorgodzilla
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2010
Agree with the 'nectar cards are evil' thing. Didn't use mine for 12months, tried to use it - "oh, it's been deactivated". "What's happened to my points?" , "You can get them back if you pay a £15 fee". Ffs, I'll keep my oven chip and preparation-H buying habits to myself then.

The Man ain't getting nothing out of me
- CommentAuthorADGS
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
While I'm against stuff like ID cards and NHS Summary Care Records (remember to opt out of the latter before May, folks - though my surgery at least had no idea what I was talking about last week), I honestly can't see what threat The Man knowing about my shopping habits might pose. Besides, The Man is obviously not paying much attention given I recently got Nectar coupons for extra points on fish and poultry, having been a vegetarian for 20 years...
- CommentAuthorjacksoff
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
I dont want a Sainsburys along sgr. Its not going to be 24hr like Woodys. I wont be able to buy booze when i finish work at 2am. They obviously dont think of the working stiff which is alright for you lot as you sound like youre just a bunch of housewives who love loyalty cards. It would take a HELL of a long time to get a flight to anywhere remotely sunny if nectar cards gave you air miles. You want to go on holiday and save money DONT REPRODUCE.
- CommentAuthorTallboy
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
Tough. You are getting a Sainsbury's on SGR. Just buy your booze before you got to work.
- CommentAuthorMarquis
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
I don't really see what exactly is the problem with people being housewives! As for the reproduction issue I have already been vetoing for a gay venue in SG on another thread. I'm big way into scally and other bits of rough, and SG definitely has potential!
- CommentAuthorJungleFaceJake
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
@ Jacksoff
I'm not a housewife.
I have a Nectar card.
I think there should be a limit on reproduction.

Although it is hard to get an abortion sanctioned after the child is born...

Is it a valid reason to keep a shit shop open because you are not organised enough to buy your booze in preparation for your post 2am drinking sessions?
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
Nectar is a pretty poor compared to the Tesco’s Club Card which has points 4 times more valuable per pound spent. Now they are double it is probably worth 8 times. Boots card is also pretty good.
- CommentAuthorjacksoff
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
Hahahaha fair comments from everyone. Of course this is just my personal preference therefore not stating right or wrong. Just a shame because i like stroud green road as it is. 'sniff'. However as for militant residents around this awesome neighborhood vetoing things, america just called, proposition 8 needs another republican supporter.
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
Any one for Tea ?
- CommentAuthorTallboy
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
Good Idea. You never know...Jackoff (sic) might just be the bit of SGR rough Marquis has been looking for!
- CommentAuthorsophie
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
i am so up for NHS summary care records. it's stupid that they haven't implemented a proper information sharing system for allergies and medicine reactions before.

oh and nectar cards are shit, i've been using mine for three years and just logged on to find i have £2.50 worth of points. no idea where the rest of them went. apparently they're worth double at ASK restaurants, so thank god i can get some rubbery tortellini for cheap.

to claim the airmiles apparently you have to log on each quarter and convert them. otherwise the old points seem to just disappear into the ether.
- CommentAuthorwisteria53
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010 edited
So exactly what's wrong with NHS summary care records - it sounded like a good idea to me?
- CommentAuthorbecky
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
It is a great idea for those of us with allergies, regular drug use and complex medical conditions. It means we might not die from inappropriate treatment if we end up in an A&E away from the hospital that usually gives us care.

Those people who oppose it have no medical conditions and therefore no use for it. Which means there will be no private information on their summary care record. So I don't know why they are so against having a blank on a central database against their name.
- CommentAuthordorothy
- CommentTimeMar 16th 2010
I gave up on the Nectar card long ago, can't stand the manipulation. All that driving around looking for a Sainsbury's petrol station, to collect the points and then getting a Nectar credit card to double the points, dear me, and isn't it only BA you can use for the airmiles.

At least the Man may have been just trying to tempt you, @ ADGS, with coupons for meat, thinking you may have been buying it elsewhere. I was sent coupons for TenaLady Incontinence pads, which I've never bought either. I think my age must have been cross referenced with my purchase of cat food or something and assumptions made. I'm not ready yet though.

I've got a similar issue with the NHS records, I don't trust it, either to get the summary right or to keep them safe. I probably won't bother with the opt out. It seems inevitable. At least if I get mown down on my bike by a skip lorry turning left, they'll see quickly I'm an organ donor. Seems to keep happening to cyclists on the route I take to work.
- CommentAuthorNoOne
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
I am genuinely gutted that Woody's is closing. I don't really care what it sells, I just love the fact that is is 24 hours. Any 20-something around N4 has a Woody's tale to tell! Nothing better than a 4am beer run and a bit of banter with the staff. I will miss it's random decor and random groceries when it's gone.
- CommentAuthorFour Eyes
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
If you read the licencing notification, it seems to imply that Sainsbury's will also be 24hrs, no?
- CommentAuthorNoOne
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
Yeh but will Sainsbury's let you dance around the christmas tree at 4am? Doubt it.
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
Or fall in the drinks fridge.
- CommentAuthorNoOne
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
oh I've done that before too!
- CommentAuthorADGS
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
The Sainsbury's licensing application suggests they will be open 24 hours, but not sell booze in the middle of the night. However, there are at least two shops on Seven Sisters Road which will continue to be fine for buying booze post-clubs or working late within, what, 10 minutes' walk of Woody's? And closer to most nocturnal transport options.

Summary Care Records: I do have at least one long-standing medical condition, as it happens, and a couple of allergies (one truly bonkers). But I also have a friend who still feels profoundly guilty over his involvement in setting up the NHS dataspine, and who has been salving his conscience by warning us all about how buggy and insecure it is, and how lots more people will have access to it than the nice shiny brochures claim.
- CommentAuthorShaunG
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2010
@dorothy - you're right about skip lorries (and others) turning left being a major killer for cyclists. Just never, ever go up their left hand side - would you entrust your life to the gamble that the driver has remembered to indicate?
- CommentAuthorclusters
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
I was just thinking... No one has mentioned that some of the staff at Woody's are waiting to find out if Sainsbury's will give them a job. Sainsbury's have refused to comment on whether they will or not, which is never a good sign!

Would it not be worth trying to create a bit of an "online stir" to see if we can petition Sainsbury's to give them jobs and help some fellow locals?
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
We are Ninja
Absolutely not.

I'm sure the staff in Woody's are nice people, but in my experience they are not cut out for roles in the service industries.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
We are Ninja
Hello Clusters by the way. Nice first post, welcome to the forum.
- CommentAuthorTallboy
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
I'd rather raise a petition imploring Sainsbury's to not employ Woody staff. Horrible thought, new supermarket filled with Tesco and Woody rejects!
- CommentAuthorclusters
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
I have to say I'm slightly disappointed.
I have never received anything but totally friendly service (even at 4am in the morning) -you can't say that's not dedication!
Well, I wish them all luck anyway!
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
@ clusters - backstory: andy had a bit of an issue with a packet of salad from woody's once. think he got short shrift when he tried to complain.
- CommentAuthorLauraw
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
But we loose all night drinking!
- CommentAuthorMisscara
- CommentTimeMar 22nd 2010
No we don't! Just do what I do and pick up a few bottles from Tesco on the way home from work on a Friday, or earlier on in the week!

I'm sure that once Woody's does close one of the more enterprising shops on SGR will extend their hours.
- CommentAuthorjacksoff
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
if only my life was boring enough to pre plan when i want to drink, but the thing is, iv seen and bought a variety of vegetables and foods that you cant find in somewhere like tesco or sainsburys and it was fresh produce. I mean obviously sainsburys are going to cater for us in that sense right? Without putting a ridiculous mark up on price? Oh but wait we can all feel sooooooooo much better because itll be organic. Go kill yourself sainsburys.
- CommentAuthorJungleFaceJake
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010 edited
@ Jacksoff
'if only my life was boring enough to pre plan when i want to drink'

Your life (and mine in fact) is boring enough to post on this website.

OOOh where ooh where will I get my White lightening from at 3am?
How can I fight the machine now? Where will I buy novelty vegtables to amuse my loser friends?

Damn you big business, Damn you to hell
- CommentAuthorTallboy
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
Hahaha! Well said JFJ.
- CommentAuthorADGS
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
I know I've already mentioned that there are two 24 hour booze shops on Seven Sisters Road, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Either that or people can't face the extra walk, but in that case they've probably had enough anyway. At the optimum level of drunk, going on a QUEST for more is all part of the fun.
- CommentAuthormiss annie
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
Surely everyone has a few random half bottles of Baileys, Tequila, Sherry and suchlike lurking at the back of the cupboard for when the off licence is closed but you want a little snifter?
- CommentAuthorMisscara
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
I didn't mean that I stock up on booze and plan when I'm going to drink it, that would be a little sad. I just tend to grab a couple of bottles when I go to Tesco's so I always have something in the cellar, thus never needing to go and pay twice the price in Woody's at 2am.

I don't like Woody's - it's filthy and expensive and the people who own it and work there are lazy, miserable and rude so I'm glad it's going. There are better 'local shops' within walking distance where I can get anything I can find in Woody's - minus the attitude, hefty mark-up and risk of buying out of date/unsanitary produce.
- CommentAuthorjacksoff
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
white lightning......youre sick. haaaaa. working 50-55 hrs a week at some odd times of the day isnt the best part of my job, but its a job....and i obviously need the money to buy novelty veg to show my loser friends. Listen 'funny guy' i dont have friends thats why im posting this stuff, and even if i did have vegetables where can i find you to show you them? Damn you sarcastic humour. grrrr
- CommentAuthorkrappyrubsnif
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
@Misscara

'it's filthy and expensive and the people who own it and work there are lazy, miserable and rude'

'It's filthy' - please justify this slur.

'and expensive' - have you actually done a proper price comparison? And with whom?

'the people who own it' - do you know them then?

'and work there are lazy, miserable and rude' - really? Please once again justify.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
We are Ninja
Funny time to jump on a high horse, KRS, but there you go.

My experiences at Woodys have been pretty close to misscara's. I can recount instances of rude and lazy behaviour and don't know any shop in London that gets change wrong more often - and never in my favour.

Cock-up or conspiracy, I don't think they are very good at running a supermarket.

And there was the snail thing, but that was years ago.
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
You did take a good photo of it, though - have you still got it somewhere?
- CommentAuthorDonnaW
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
As most people know, I like most places in Stroud Green but I'm not a big fan of Woody's, i must admit.

They just don't seem to have much of a sense of humour. Maybe that's a bit harsh and I didn't make any funny jokes.

My other half likes them, he thinks they sell good lamb.
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeMar 23rd 2010
(The photo, that is, not the snail.)
- CommentAuthorMisscara
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
@KRS: I'm not going to get into a battle about this, I am merely stating some of my own observations, however since you insist on my justification, here goes...

I have seen many examples of filthiness in Woody's... dirty shelves, sticky residue and dust that should all be part of a regular cleaning routine in a food premises (I know, I run one). I've seen blood on the floor near the meat counter that has been allowed to sit there and attract flies, and a general lack of concern for even basic general cleanliness. And don't get me started on those sheep!

Without having done a 'proper' price comparison with any other local shops, I know that most items I buy are more expensive in Woody's than elsewhere, through the experience of having bought them in Woody's, and elsewhere.

I don't know the people in Woody's personally, I never said I did.

The fact that the store is never really that busy, but has cleanliness issues denotes lazy staff as instead of standing around they could be cleaning.

Miserable and rude: again, my (and a lot of other people's) perception based on experience.
- CommentAuthorTallboy
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
It's the only shop that I have to check the till display as the items are being scanned. Shocking pricing irregularities. And it's only recently that I've been offered a receipt on check out.
- CommentAuthorJungleFaceJake
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
Well said Misscara.

It is a rank establishment and it's good that it is going, as it has few redeeming features.

If I want to be treated badly when trying to aquire food when pissed I'll stick to waking my girlfriend up.
- CommentAuthorN4Matt
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
As much as I would always rather support the independent retailer over someone such as Sainsburys, I will not mourn the passing of Woody's.

The place is dirty, their wine selection is shocking and importantly, most of the staff there have little or no concept of customer service.
- CommentAuthorkrappyrubsnif
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
OK guys, you have me bang to rights.
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
awww - we'll miss the sheep. i really liked the way they were positioned so after your kids had a closer look and the guy behind the counter said 'baa' , they only had to look up to be confronted by the real, skinned sheep heads for sale.
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
what was it with their juice selection? They have like 13,000 lines in stock but none of them were decent, or chilled for that matter.
- CommentAuthorDonnaW
- CommentTimeMar 24th 2010
I laughed out loud at your final sentence, JungleFaceJake :)
- CommentAuthormpc
- CommentTimeMar 25th 2010
N4Matt wrote: their wine selection is shocking

Err ... why would N4Matt even think about buying wine from a 24-hour supermarket? If she/he is after wine from such a place, probably because no where else is open (in the middle of the night, perhaps?) seems to me her/his comment is a bit rich.

Give them a break!

In any case, with Jack's just over the road something palatable can usually be found on SGR ...
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 25th 2010
We are Ninja
Lots of red based tellings off today, ucypanp. Keep up the good work.
- CommentAuthorN4Matt
- CommentTimeMar 25th 2010
Sorry to cause such offense.

Just because it's a 24 hour store does not mean that you have to buy from there when all other stores are shut but thanks for assuming that I am some kind of desparate dipso who *needs* wine at 4am.

As they are in the supermarket business, I mistakenly thought that they might be able to supply me with a variety of products that I could pick up while on my way home from work.

Actually their wine selection is shocking and as such if I have needed to get groceries and a bottle of wine then I am most likely to go elsewhere.

Still, it's all gonna be recent history in no time and while I'm no fan of Sainsbury's I am sure that they will turn that site into a more profitable and probably more customer friendly store.
- CommentAuthorMarquis
- CommentTimeMar 25th 2010
Yes, but the question is, will they have raspberry flavoured golden syrup?
- CommentAuthorEd B
- CommentTimeMar 25th 2010
Woody's is just a corner shop on steriods. Although I think the fruit and veg is great (compared to the Tesco mush), the rest of it, not bothered, bring on Sainsbury's.
- CommentAuthorBrodiej
- CommentTimeMar 26th 2010
Hello everyone, first time on the site, but lived on Hanley Road since 2006. Got to say that i'm devastated about Woody's changing to Sainsburys. Its certainly got its shortcomings, and i won't argue against other peoples experiences, but its an independent colourful business with character that adds something to our area. It makes me really angry that our local high streets are all just becoming masses of chain stores bringing nothing to the party. OK, so chain typically means better value, but it also means corporate, faceless, passionless, profit machine. Just look at the how the agressiveness of the multiples has completely changed the face of local London? Its all just merging into the same offer, different location. Even eating out's the same now, although not so much in SG. New development = Nandos, Mcdonalds, La Tasca, KFC, GBK, Pizza Hut.....all pre-cooked, re-heated rubbish at 300% mark-up. If a local business is good, support it, we need more Peteks, Papagone, Cats, Doktori. The continent do it, why are we any different?
- CommentAuthormiss annie
- CommentTimeMar 26th 2010
Business rates and utility costs are generally lower in Europe and produce is generally cheaper as not so much is imported so restaurants can turn out good quality food without being super expensive. Supermarket policies have led to a decline in home produced goods so we import more. The majority of English people only care about the price and quantity of food and not what it tastes like, so the restaurants that used occupy nice local spots have given way to the likes of Wetherspoons, Starbucks and other chains. If people were prepared to pay a little bit more for nice, tasty stuff and if business rates and rental costs were not so ridiculous we would have more choice.
But the coffe would still be terrible.
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 26th 2010
English or British? If we're going for the rest of Europe's marvellous argument, I'd plump for the latter because those Celtic cuisines are at least on a par with the English ones.
- CommentAuthorSlabber
- CommentTimeMar 30th 2010
I have been banned
I asked the guy behind the counter if they were being replaced by Sainsbury's and he said "no".
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 30th 2010
We are Ninja
That's about par for the service there. Did he also forget to give you your change?
- CommentAuthorIan
- CommentTimeMar 30th 2010
You got someone to serve you at the counter? Or was he just hanging around eating and saying "I'm on my break".
- CommentAuthorMisscara
- CommentTimeMar 30th 2010
Slabber - was it the guy who used to have 3 haircuts in one? I asked him the same question on Sunday evening and he responded by asking if I was drunk.
- CommentAuthorSlabber
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2010
I have been banned
Yes, that guy.
- CommentAuthortaff bach
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2010
I'm going to miss Woodies, the Spahish Fluet D'olo, the great Turkish bread and my favorite Croatian chicken noodle soup. To hell with the corporations, long live weird small food shops. And dysfunctional Turkish punks rockers, maybe he'd been working all night.
- CommentAuthorActionVerb
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010 edited
Applications for the Sainsbury's unit have been submitted (it's on the applications list of SG.org). No plans online yet.
- CommentAuthoryagamuffin
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Do we really need another supermarket? It wouldn't be so bad if it was a co-op, at least they have something slightly different to offer.
- CommentAuthorBridget
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Another supermarket?

We only have one. I can't wait as I hate Tesco food, as it's tasteless and you dont really go wow Id really like to eat that when you look around in there.

Im hoping Sainsburys have better quality food. Im sure they will and there are lots of things in Sainsburys. I wish it wouldnt take so long. I have the feeling it won't open it's taking so long.

Oh well.
- CommentAuthorBridget
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Sorry I meant to say, they have really nice thing's in Sainsburys that they dont have in Tescos.

Tescos just do one kind of bog standard gravy which is awful Sainsburys do different kinds for example.

Tescos dont sell Plum baby food wheras Sainsburys do. Sanisburys sell great tasting low fat crisps. Tescos only sell frozen yorkshire puddings and not fresh ones, Sainsburys do. Tescos have stopped selling smoothies for kids which Sainsburys sell.

There are loads of things I would like to buy there that Tescos dont sell and to walk there instead of driving is better for me.

I really dont think there is much choice around her by foot.
- CommentAuthoryagamuffin
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Baring in mind the size of store I don't think you'll see any more selection Sainsbury, possible even less.
I can't say I often buy gravy though, do people really do that? You don't make it yourself? Granted, if I'm feeling really lazy I'll use Bisto, but never buy an actual pot of gravy!

As for only having one, there are three a short walk/bus ride away in Crouch End and there are more on Holloway Road.
- CommentAuthorBridget
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Ha ha, no there may not be more choice but hopefully better quality.

I think a lot of people do buy fresh gravy as when I go to M&S on Sundays before it closes its all sold out. It tastes much nicer than Bisto, though there is nothing wrong with Bisto.

Yes I know there are supermarkets further away but on most days I have a baby in tow and a toddler and the pfaff and stress and not to mention dirty looks if I have a double buggy on a bus and then carrier bags to boot is not worth contemplating on most days.
- CommentAuthormiss annie
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
It will be like all smaller Sainsburys-more expensive and limited choice.

@Bridget
As long as you're not trying to hoist a pram and shopping on to a bus in the rush hour you'll be fine. Everyone gives dirty looks to people who do that. It's like people who don't go to work and then choose lunchtime to go to the bank or post office!
- CommentAuthorsosusie
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
I'm loathe to comment (scared more like) but...I really like Woody's. I don't shop in there all that often but I've never had any problems, I think it's an interesting shop - or certainly could be.

On the snail front - I bought a mixed bag of three different types of lettuce from Waitrose on Holloway Road on Tuesday and we found at least two snails in amongst the leaves. We just picked them off. I don't think it's a comment on the standards of Waitrose and if it is it's a positive comment.

Also, if the rumours I hear are true we'll have Sainsbury's on one corner and some bank (think it was Barclays) on the other - and that's no good thing in my opinion.
- CommentAuthorADGS
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Surely there's already a Barclays within a few minutes' walk? I can't see they'd want another so close. Yes, I know there's another Tesco that close, but Tesco have a yearning for ubiquity which banks seem far from sharing.
- CommentAuthoryagamuffin
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Barclays on the other corner? One of the pubs or the charity shop?
- CommentAuthoryagamuffin
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Andy really? It's hardly a busy high street. I would be very surprised to see any banks opening on SGR.
- CommentAuthorsosusie
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
I heard a while back that Woody's was going to be Sainsbury's and The Old Dairy a bank (or vice versa) so I'm just assuming as it seems that Woody's IS going to be Sainsbury's that maybe The Old Dairy will become a bank. Could be totally off though, gossiping between shopkeepers passed on to customers type thing.
- CommentAuthoryagamuffin
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
A pub turning in to a bank? No there's a first.

I hope not though, I like the Old Dairy :(
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
The Drs Surgery next to Woodys used to be a Barclays Bank while the Chinese Massage shop used to be a Midland Bank, You can see it in the shop fronts
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
We are Ninja
Who opens bank branches? Surely there haven't been any new bank branches since 1988.

Coming soon, a video shop.
- CommentAuthorPhilistine
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
Tish and nonsense with a big bag of bollocks thrown in. Old Dairy a bank? The building next door used to be a bank.

I used to get food delivered by Riverford, and Abel and Cole. Organic lifestyle shit -- basically carrots. So many fucking carrots you'd need seventeen horses just to finish them each week. And the veg was full of snails or slugs. I didn't mind that that cos, like, you know, veg comes out of soil and a bit of a rinse should make it edible; doesn't really need to be gassed by a shitload of Zyklon B before it reaches your plate.

But I'm fussy.
- CommentAuthorGas Powered Ninja
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2010
Dammit, will Sainsburys be open at 1am when I'm drunk and want coconut milk and cola bottle sweets?

Will it f*ck. DEATH TO BIG BUSINESS EXCEPT THE ONES I DEAL WITH, THEY'RE ALRIGHT.
- CommentAuthorADGS
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2010
The licensing application suggests 24 hour opening, but no booze sales after midnight.
- CommentAuthorIan
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2010
So Sainsbury's will be open at 1am. Now all we need to ascertain is whether Gas Powered Ninja will be drunk at that time and whether Sainsbury's will stock basic food products.

Me - still can't wait for it to open. Hurrah.
- CommentAuthorGas Powered Ninja
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2010
Crucially, will it open Xmas day etc like Woodys? The Sainsburys near my parents house in Norwich is closed on every major christian holiday.

Ian - I would be. All my best shopping is alcohol induced.
- CommentAuthorwisteria53
- CommentTimeMay 1st 2010
will miss some of the groceries that only Woody's has, but really looking forward to a cash machine that doesn't charge you and cleaner floors
- CommentAuthorSlabber
- CommentTimeMay 1st 2010
I have been banned
The competition from Sainsburys might cause Tesco to sort itself out.
- CommentAuthorActionVerb
- CommentTimeMay 1st 2010
Opening hours 7am-11pm daily according to the planning application by the way.
- CommentAuthorkrappyrubsnif
- CommentTimeMay 1st 2010
Well, I suppose one option is to start getting up very early and get the vodka in time for breakfast.
- CommentAuthorwisteria53
- CommentTimeMay 20th 2010
A sign of SG's future
- CommentAuthordion
- CommentTimeMay 20th 2010
Oooh, I can't wait! Look - there's a free cashpoint too!
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2010
Not another free cashpoint!
- CommentAuthorPhilistine
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2010
Sainsburys Local? "Local"?!" Not if you live in Muswell Hill it ain't. I mean, they've got their own, haven't they? It's not a "local" one, though. It doesn't have a sign advertising it's relative position to the surrounding community, at least, so I guess it must be a Sainsburys National.
- CommentAuthordrift
- CommentTimeMay 25th 2010
Oh no, thats terrible! I love woodys, its always there when i need it, such as walking home from A&E at 5am, or on christmas when my turkey was mouldy, i went to woodys to buy a chicken :( Noooo!!!
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeJun 17th 2010
The much-anticipated (by me that is) Closing Down Sale is now officially on! 30% off everything from Wednesday through to the 22nd except for alcohol and tabs (and red lentils it would appear).