No.1 Somerfield
So this was a company that exists on the Uk high street in one guise for over 150 years , it formed in 1875 and closed in 2011. But to be fair its failure was way before that. The store had a massive presence on the Uk high streets. Originally under different names but same owndership it aquired Kwik Save stores and also brought other stores from other retailers. The problem with that was that they were referred to the merge's comission and they were instructed to sell stores. The company did get in to some difficulties and sold out to the co-op group (manchester) in 2011 and then dissapeared from the high street. Somerfield is the only company in this list I have worked for. I think the overall company was that in expanding so quickly in the early 00s the company did not seek to invest in the stores, so I was working in a store which had a lift. Without the lift there was no way to get stock on to the shop floor. Also very poor infrastructure and no monitoring of waste. Also staff would mostly in stores I was familiar with would be employed through job centre schemes.
It does remind me of the co-op group at the moment though, ironcially the company that brought it as they have been hacked due to poor infrastructure of IT systems.
