Fare's fair at Fine Fare!
On departing Blackpool's Talbot Road Bus Station, Blackpool Corporation Transport 390 (CFR590C), a Metro Cammell bodied Leyland PD3 makes it's way down Talbot Road, passed the Fine Fare Supermarket, before heading out towards Lytham St Anne's a little further down the coast.
Fine Fare was the name of a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom until the late 1980s. It was famous for its Yellow Pack budget own-label range, probably one of the first store sub brands or tertiary brand names in the UK. The Melias chain of convenience stores was also part of the Fine Fare group.
The company was acquired by Associated British Foods in 1963 and Fine Fare's corporate headquarters were in Welwyn Garden City. Its market share was generally reported as being third behind Sainsurys and Tesco, who were No1 and No2 respectively.
In the mid-1980s, ABF sold the company to The Dee Corporation (then trading as Gateway, nowadays known as Somerfield) as one of a series of acquisitions Dee made around that time including the Woolco and Carrefour hypermarket chains. Following this, all Dee's newly-acquired stores were rebranded as Gateway or closed, and the Fine Fare name disappeared. Later some larger Gateway stores were bought by ASDA and were rebranded.
Photo: Tuesday 1st June 1982.
Fare's fair at Fine Fare!
On departing Blackpool's Talbot Road Bus Station, Blackpool Corporation Transport 390 (CFR590C), a Metro Cammell bodied Leyland PD3 makes it's way down Talbot Road, passed the Fine Fare Supermarket, before heading out towards Lytham St Anne's a little further down the coast.
Fine Fare was the name of a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom until the late 1980s. It was famous for its Yellow Pack budget own-label range, probably one of the first store sub brands or tertiary brand names in the UK. The Melias chain of convenience stores was also part of the Fine Fare group.
The company was acquired by Associated British Foods in 1963 and Fine Fare's corporate headquarters were in Welwyn Garden City. Its market share was generally reported as being third behind Sainsurys and Tesco, who were No1 and No2 respectively.
In the mid-1980s, ABF sold the company to The Dee Corporation (then trading as Gateway, nowadays known as Somerfield) as one of a series of acquisitions Dee made around that time including the Woolco and Carrefour hypermarket chains. Following this, all Dee's newly-acquired stores were rebranded as Gateway or closed, and the Fine Fare name disappeared. Later some larger Gateway stores were bought by ASDA and were rebranded.
Photo: Tuesday 1st June 1982.