Talk:Somerfield

Somerfield + The Co-operative Merger
since somerfield was took over by the co-operative i think we should merge the 2 together this is happening to all somerfield shops they are being rebranded co-operative food and i think this sould happen on here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.50.216 (talk) 21:58, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Food Giant
Food Giant article links are to a US company - not the UK version. Bods 14:44, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Food Giant links now removed; note in the Food Giant article directs those interested in the UK chain to here or to Kwik Save. Fourohfour 18:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Not any more. It's a disambiguation page now. The Food Giant link there points to Somerfield. Digifiend (talk) 10:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

BTTF
The links to BTTF lead somewhere apparently irrelevant --PeterR 21:28, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Namely, the movie Back to the Future. I've delinked it. Digifiend (talk) 10:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Citation tags
It's funny how when I dare to question a citation tag inserted by DrFrench or Fourohfour, I am accused of vandalism and the rules of Wikipedia are cited most stringently. Yet when they choose to insert such citation tags, no such explanation is offered. When these tags are inserted into South Shields, Kwik Save or Somerfield, it is usually for facts or assertions so generic that no such information would be requested elsewhere on the site, yet for daring to challenge them and reverting these tags, you are treated as an unwelcome sore on the face of Wikipedia. Strangely, when you seek to take these issues beyond the initial reversion by said parties (and others, I must say) the threats of vandalism and banishment from Wikipedia are rarely carried through.

Is this, I wonder, because they know in their heart of hearts that they are wrong and that the independent spirit of Wikipedia is being destroyed by those who would hide behind an elaborate members' page and pretend that they own the place. I say NO, I say that anyone should be able to asset their opinions on this site and that it should be as legitimate to state that a citation is not required as it is to state the opposite. You may well spend half your life on Wikipedia, that's up to you - I'm not that sad and quite frankly I don't care - but please don't patronise those who work to keep this community independent and beyond the control of those who seem to live for it, usually individuals so far removed from the real world that they don't have a clue what's actually going on.

Yes, I have vandalised the sites and amendments of those so anally retentive that they seek to destroy the independence and impartiality on which Wikpedia was founded, and I make no apology for that. What I should have learned to appreciate is that they are so collectively thick it will have no effect. Some things on this site must be taken on trust as no person, living or otherwise, has the capacity to reference every single point of every article on Wikipedia. When you start asking for references on the type of shelves that Kwik Save had in the 1990s, then you are quite frankly taking the piss. If someone has taken the time and effort to write about something so obscure, maybe you should think about their motives before demanding a citation! lawsonrob 22 June 2007, 01:02


 * You've posted this in three places (Somerfield talk page, Kwik Save talk page and at your user talk page.)
 * Since it's hard (and pointless) to have the same discussion across three different pages- and since this is mainly an issue between users- I've posted my response on your talk page, and propose that we keep this discussion there. Fourohfour 12:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Citations and Bias
This article reads more like an advert in places. The majority of the article is uncited, speculation, personal thoughts and much of it written in favour of the company. I would like to request that the article is thinned out and any points that cannot be cited or neutralised be removed as soon as possible. In my opinion there are only 2 or 3 paragraphs that can be salvaged. | See rules Zzx28 (talk) 13:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll have a trawl round over the next few days to see if I can find sources for some of the statements in the article. I would suggest leaving a couple of weeks for sources to be added, before cutting too much from the article. I don't detect much bias in the article, myself, but there are certainly a lot of statements here that need to be properly sourced. If reliable sources can be found to back up the statements, however, they cannot be considered 'original thought' and should be retained. --Michig (talk) 13:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 07:33, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Somerfield (UK retailer) → Somerfield — Move not discussed, Australian place article is just a stub, so a seperate disambig page is not needed. —Asdfasdf1231234 ( talk ) 21:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Survey

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 * Support per nom 71.106.183.124 (talk) 03:23, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support this is the most common usage now (unfortunate that a retailer supersedes a town but that's the way it is). A dablink will be required at the top of Somerfield if it's moved. PeterSymonds (talk)  21:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll add the dab link now so nobody forgets. Asdfasdf1231234 ( talk ) 21:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Support; clear primary topic - well-known UK-wide retailer over small suburb. Knepflerle (talk) 10:48, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - Google News has only 40 results for somerfield christchurch, so I think the suburb is marginally notable; the supermarket chain has, surprisingly, become more so, probably because it was once listed on the London Stock Exchange. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:01, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

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 * Please alert the editors of Somerfield (Suburb) and of the disambig page at Somerfield of your request. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 22:28, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
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Co-op rebranding in April?
The manager of a Co-op store tells me that rebranding of Somerfield stores to Co-ops will take place in April. A quick search hasn't turned up any verification of this but if anyone has a reliable source, this may be worth adding. --Mutt Lunker (talk) 13:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

One comfirmed convertion of a somerfield store is the Wigston Store, Leicester will be converted into a CO-OP in june Mohammed patel 15:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohammed patel (talk • contribs)

discontinued
Probably worth mentioing in the info-box thing that Somerfield will end in 2010. 1875-2010. --213.83.125.225 (talk) 13:02, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

More infomation needed on Food Giant
I was looking for information about Food Giant but ended up redirected here, and there is unfortunately not much information. The article seems to say that when the Somerfield brand was launched in 1990, Food Giant already existed as one of Gateway's other brands, although when it first appeared, where, and how it was differentiated for normal Gateway stores is not mentioned earlier in the text. I hope anyone who has this information will add it. I used to think of Food Giant as a supermarket that only existed in the north of England, although I was very young at the time and may have got this impression simply from there being one near my relatives in Yorkshire and there not being one near where I lived. Again, any information about the geographical distribution of Food Giant stores would be much appreciated.

The next sentence says a "small number of stores were also relaunched under a new Food Giant discount brand, with the first store opening in Nottingham in 1991." On first glance, before I had parsed the previous sentence properly, I thought this meant Food Giant was the Gateway/Somerfield discount brand, and it appeared in 1991. If there was actually a separate sub-brand of Food Giant, called something like "Food Giant Discount" or "Discount Food Giant", this needs to be made more explicit, with the proper name being given. Photos would be wonderful!

Finally, when did Food Giant, potentially along with its discount variety, cease to exist? Were its stores sold off, rebranded as Somerfield, or what? How many of them were there? Credulity (talk) 10:22, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Key Markets
The Key Markets supermarket chain was I believe acquired by Gateway, but I can't find any reliable sources for this. Can anyone help mention Key Markets in the article? --Pontificalibus (talk) 17:03, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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Stores section not encyclopedic
I suspect that the list of stores (Somerfield) is not encyclopedic content.

Articles about other shops, past and present, do not contain similar lists of stores. I think only notable stores should be mentioned. Eg the first store, the biggest, etc. Possibly policy Wikipedia is not a directory might apply here too. Batternut (talk) 09:09, 29 March 2017‎ (UTC)

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