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The Box Youth Centre in Hedge End is to be one of the first good causes in the UK that will receive a cash boost from a new supermarket loyalty scheme. Kavanagh Budgens in Hedge End is one of three stores in the UK which is trialling a new scheme developed by Musgrave Retail Partners GB, the main...
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UKuncut activists from Eastleigh joined forces with other anti-cut protestors from around the South Coast to stage a demonstration outside the Southampton branch of Starbucks yesterday (Saturday December 8) - Part of a nationwide protest being held that day at over 50 Starbucks coffee shops The action was intended to highlight an alleged £25...
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Web based retailing giant Amazon is anticipating the biggest internet spending spree of the year this evening during what is dubbed ‘Cyber Monday’ as Christmas shoppers get ready to avoid crowds and town parking charges by maxing out the plastic on high tech goodies – often cheap compared to high street prices. The...
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Staff at Eastleigh’s branch of Comet, the stricken electrical retailer have been officially told the store will be closing confirming their worst fears. Disappointed workers at the Woodside Avenue store – currently running a fire sale of stock – were told yesterday that despite administrators Deloittes attempts to find a buyer for the business,...
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As staff at Eastleigh’s Comet branch brace themselves for likely closure concerns have emerged for the UK’s last major high street electrical retailer Curry’s as bargain hungry Christmas shoppers flock to pick up bargains form closing g sales at Comet branches The Dixons group who own Curry’s and PC world and have a superstore...
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Eastleigh folk braved winds and rain to get the festive season off with a bang yesterday evening. The Mayor Rupert Kyrle, accompanied by his Mayoress Karen, was on the bandstand – along with Father Christmas, Eastleigh’s own Paralympian David Knott and MP Chris Huhne – to throw the switch on the towns’ new £30,000...
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The administrators for stricken electrical retailer Comet has announced its latest job cuts which will see the closure of their Hedge End Home delivery depot with the loss of 48 jobs out of a total of 603 delivery hubs across the country. Only three weeks ago Comet were advertising vacancies locally for £7.79 ph...
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Eastleigh’s MP Chris Huhne, and Hedge End Town Council, have formally announced on their websites today, the news that Hedge End has been awarded “a £10,000 Government boost to help local traders in the Town” As previously reported by Eastleigh News, in Hedge End also a Town Team Partner, the money has been awarded as part of...
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Shoppers hoping to snap up Christmas bargains at Eastleigh’s Comet branch were disappointed by the start of the stricken retailer’s widely advertised ‘Massive stock liquidation’ yesterday. Comet who are currently under administration and is expected to begin closing branches next week had advertised up to 30% saying “everything must go”. However, one shopper told...
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There is a question mark over the future of three more of Eastleigh’s chain stores. The Comet chain of electrical retailers is reportedly up for sale again having been bought for £2 by venture capitalist outfit Optcapita just 8 months ago. Since then Optcapita shed 1,000 jobs but none were lost at its Woodside...
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Sales of Hob Nobs – the biscuit of choice for millionaire MPs – and other branded biscuits have plummeted by 14% this year as the credit crunch sees cash strapped shoppers turn to shop’s own branded products. A top secret report (Price £35) by the Grocer magazine has been leaked by the Daily Mail...
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Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s have withdrawn their application for a new store and home delivery hub in Eastleigh Town Centre which would have seen , 5,000 square feet of recreational space and 47 trees concreted over. Eastleigh News understands there had been a series of meetings all day yesterday between Sainsbury’s representatives, council officers and...
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Sainsbury’s controversial plan to build a megastore and home delivery depot over part of Eastleigh’s popular recreation ground has drawn criticism from an Eastleigh council officer who believes it will result in the “loss of a large proportion of urban tree stock”. The officer from the council tree services department has objected to the...
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Residents objecting to the new Sainsbury’s development have expressed their frustration after local councillors failed to take part in an open forum with Sainsbury’s planners. The meeting at the Old Town Hall on July 5 was organised by Newtown Residents Association as part of their AGM. Usually a couple of Eastleigh councillors are on...
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The new Sainsbury’s Megastore in Portswood is launching a second attempt to extend its opening hours to 11pm the local website Portswood.info has reported. Sainsbury’s – which only opened the superstore in March – originally wanted to remain open till 11pm with the car park shutting at midnight but Southampton City Council heeded the...
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