Tom is amazing
Sainsburies. London Road. The final hours.
The friendly face of Brighton supermarkets closed its doors for the final time yesterday. Goodbye, London Road Sainsburies; it's been a hell of a journey, and we made it together.
Tom was the last ever customer of London Road Sainsburies. He describes the emotional final minutes; "staff were in tears as a grand thankyou to customers was read out over the tannoy, and people were ushered towards the checkouts for the very last time."
I had to be at work by half five, and couldn't get time off to witness this historic event, but I'm glad Tom was there, black-clad, candle in hand, to see off an old friend.
They are opening a new one in the New England Quarter today. But it'll never be the same. It's like when a beloved pet dies and you get a new one. "But it'll never truly replace Danny", you weep at the forlorn and hopeful little scamp.
London Road Sainsburies, you will be missed. You will hold a place in my heart next to the Co-op Department Store and Hanningtons. Maybe one day the world will be ready for the likes of you once again.
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The friendly face of Brighton supermarkets closed its doors for the final time yesterday. Goodbye, London Road Sainsburies; it's been a hell of a journey, and we made it together.
Tom was the last ever customer of London Road Sainsburies. He describes the emotional final minutes; "staff were in tears as a grand thankyou to customers was read out over the tannoy, and people were ushered towards the checkouts for the very last time."
I had to be at work by half five, and couldn't get time off to witness this historic event, but I'm glad Tom was there, black-clad, candle in hand, to see off an old friend.
They are opening a new one in the New England Quarter today. But it'll never be the same. It's like when a beloved pet dies and you get a new one. "But it'll never truly replace Danny", you weep at the forlorn and hopeful little scamp.
London Road Sainsburies, you will be missed. You will hold a place in my heart next to the Co-op Department Store and Hanningtons. Maybe one day the world will be ready for the likes of you once again.
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Be Foxy's Friend! http://www.myspace.com/foxytime
posted by Rufus Moonshine at 5:07 AM
1 Comments:
Who is Foxy? Why is he my friend?
And also, when did they shut the Sainsbury's on the London Road? What? Why? Why ???
Totally news to me.
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