With stores across the UK including Burnley, Accrington, Clitheroe, Blackpool and Lancaster, Kwik Save was once the the biggest discount supermarket in Britain
A budget supermarket that was once a familiar site on our high streets for nearly half-a-century struggled to survive after continental budget chains muscled in on the UK scene.
In the early years, the stores had little in the way of competition and had found favour with customers looking to save money away from the larger, mainstream supermarkets. In the 1980s, the stores started selling frozen food for the first time. This rapid expansion was later acknowledged to have been a contributing factor which led financial problems and the closure of 107 underperforming stores. In 1998 the chain was bought out by supermarket rival Somerfield.
It was also the time when the original foreign discount supermarkets such as Aldi, Lidl and Netto - who all arrived in the UK in the 1990s - began to expand. In 2007, Kwik Save said it was to close 79 of its stores with immediate effect.
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