Sainsbury's 171 Long Lane

Another nail in the local shops

Really? About 200 metres from the one on Bermondsey Square?

Not that there are many local shops around there for it to affect, are there? Just the little off-license opposite I suppose. Can't see it affecting the deli.

I have a spare bedroom, maybe Sainsbury's or Tesco's can move in... lol

Which building is 171?

urbanite wrote:

Which building is 171?

As per the first message - the former site of the Valentine Pub (on the corner with Weston St)

In another thread I expressed the wish for a Little Waitrose to be opened here and it will be Sainsbury's. I don't really mind which one it is, but I do think that that particular corner is a very good one. It will change that dead corner into a more lively one.

Longranger wrote:

I have a spare bedroom, maybe Sainsbury's or Tesco's can move in... lol

Be very careful Longranger, if that nice Mr. Cameron learns of your spare bedroom he will inform that nice Mr. Osborne, and HMRC will be in touch.

4 Sainsbury's within 500m...spoilt for choice!!

No!!! Really? We looked at it a while back for a possible brewery site but far too expensive for us. Not another supermarket though, surely!

Longranger wrote:

I have a spare bedroom, maybe Sainsbury's or Tesco's can move in... lol

too true... I mean, I like doing the shopping more than most people, but I don't need to see a half-dozen half-a**ed shops within a ten minute walk of each other! And yet we're still lacking a decent good-sized branch of ANY grocer (T, S or even *gasp* W) in the area - just a surfeit of disappointing metro/express shops. <grits teeth in frustration and prepares for long shlep to OKR, St Katherines Dock or Canary Wharf>