keymarkets and bejams

[JBizzleBeard]

Weird, I was only talking about Bejams to my wife randomly the other day. She had no idea wtf I was on about. Was Bejams a southern thing by any chance? As she is from Stockport originally...

 

[Life After Bobby]

Weird, I was only talking about Bejams to my wife randomly the other day. She had no idea wtf I was on about. Was Bejams a southern thing by any chance? As she is from Stockport originally...

Yeah, was (largely) a southern thing. They started out in Stanmore (in Harrow) and expanded in the 1980's by buying the Victor Value London-based chain from Tesco.

Was my first job, at the Redhill one

 

[JBizzleBeard]

Well that explains why she gave me the wtf look then, thanks

 

[Crennis]

What happened to Circle K? The one in Hurst became Alldays then Co-op but I don't know if that applies to them all.

 

[OzMike]

Mace?

 

[Pbseagull]

Liptons?

I'm sure there used to be a Liptons in Gardner Street

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Didn't they get taken over by the infamous Wickes ?

 

[Dr Q]

Brentford Nylons!

Go in there, there was so much static you'd come out looking like Rod Hull (pre-ariel fixing mishap!)

 

[Common as Mook]

Cant's see a lot of the photos on this thread but has anyone mentioned Cullens?

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Wavyline and Spar, strangely Spar now run the NAAFI shops

 

[BensGrandad]

Yeah, was (largely) a southern thing. They started out in Stanmore (in Harrow) and expanded in the 1980's by buying the Victor Value London-based chain from Tesco.

Was my first job, at the Redhill one

Are you sure as Victor Value was takern over by Tesco I thought in the early 70s. Bejam started as a company owned by 2 brothers Brian and Edward James, I think.

There was a Victor Value in Worthing which I am reasonably sure became a Tesco while Bejam were still operating.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

i used to go in there. Moulscoomb?

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

I used to work for Bejams way back in 1988 started at 15 earning £1.16 an hour. The uniform was a blue overall with a yellow and grey stripe down the side. You hated getting sent out to do a trolley run as it was deemed embarrassing to be seen in the uniform.

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[Life After Bobby]

Are you sure as Victor Value was takern over by Tesco I thought in the early 70s. Bejam started as a company owned by 2 brothers Brian and Edward James, I think.

There was a Victor Value in Worthing which I am reasonably sure became a Tesco while Bejam were still operating.

Yeah, Tesco bought Victor Value in the late 60's and turned some of the bigger ones into Tescos, but kept the VV brand for others. Then sold what was left to Bejam in the 80s.

Bejam was named after the founding directors Brain, Eric, John (who was the MD, also owned Majestic until a few years ago), and Milly (John's mum)

 

[honey boy zimba]

nice people with nice prices thats international ........used to with my mum in western road for food shoping then they delivered it home in big boxes after i would turn into a camp or bus happy days

 

[honey boy zimba]

also the big deparment store wades ,hills of hove and hanningtons loved going to see father xmas at thoses

 

[Stat Brother]

You realise if this thread reaches 5 pages, we'd have written Peter Kay's next stand up tour, and will all be entitled to royalties.

 

[honey boy zimba]

Bernard Manning once said " peter kay dosnt tell jokes he justs jogs your memory"

 

[Norman Potting]

Dalgety - they were similar to Bejams. Going back a very long way, Pricerite who used to give pink stamps (not green). What happened to pink and green stamps?

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

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