Retail recollections: Wigan supermarket events over the decades

By Charles Graham

Published 17th Sep 2024, 15:45 BST

Supermarkets have been the focal point for many a Wigan photo opportunity over the decades, sometimes relating to heart-warming charity events, business developments or sometimes downright wacky happenings.

Here’s a selection of superstore-related images from the Wigan Today archives dating from the 1960s to the noughties.

1. Wigan supermarkets

. Photo: STAFF

2. Dominic Suggitt, seven, of Whelley, had won a trip to Florida in a national competition for his family at Tesco Central Park

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW

3. Supermarkets in Wigan began providing trolleys with baby seats for youngsters for the first time in 1967

. Photo: SUBMITTED

4. Standish St Wilfrid's under-10's cut the ribbon to open the new Co-operative food store at the old Somerfield's site in Standish

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow

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