Sainsbury’s eco store in Greenwich 1999-2015. The most enjoyable store to ever shop in. Sadly demolished in 2015 to make another standard box store a few miles away.

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1. Why did they demolish it? Cost more to run than a usual store or were its green credentials overhyped?

2. I worked there part-time while I was teacher training and it was a great place to work.

3. It was taken over by IKEA for a while before it was demolished. Such a pity.

4. I used to do my shopping here when I lived around the corner from there about 25 years ago. Felt like the future. Shame it’s gone. What an absolute waste.

5. We used to call this Teletubbie Land and slide down the grass hill when we were kids

   Unfortunately the fat one in the group (not me) had a little bit too much momentum sliding down it due to the laws of physics and slid right into the drain at the bottom which removed some chunks of flesh from his leg

   He was alright in the end though

6. Not very eco off the building only had a 15 year life 

7. i didnt know this place existed, i moved to woolwich 2021 so i frequently visit those parts and I would have loved to shop there ☹️

8. I think most Sainsbury’s have a Starbucks inside them now

9. I think it had a Costa when it opened.

10. This is not just any Sainsbury’s. This is an M&S Sainsbury’s.

11. Weirdly, the Sainsbury’s petrol station in the car park whose design echoes the main building here is still there, and sits slightly incongruously with the IKEA

12. I worked here. Can call it was my first job back in the early 2000s

13. I loved this store, iirc it was opened by Jamie Oliver and was their flagship eco store. I have to say though Big Sainsburys in Charlton is also the dream.

14. Nevermind that. They closed several warehouses to open Waltham Cross with four miles of conveyor-belts but it was such a shit show that it crippled the company’s logistics operations for years as they tried to work out all the bugs.

    Sainsburys is like a little kid that starts running, pulls ahead and then immediately falls into a muddy puddle.

    Would be funny, but entire towns were built to service their logistics hubs, so when they closed they gutted the towns with them.

15. I lived in Greenwich from 1999 to 2013 and would go shopping here weekly – had no idea it had been demolished what a shame!

16. I did not know this was there before the Ikea it looks pretty nice

17. I used to shop there. Was an awesome place. And groceries were a lot cheaper back then.

18. I remember when this opened up it was well exciting lol. That and the film works down the road and the comet in between.

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