So many well-known names
That 20-year period was a transitional time during which online shopping went from non-existent in 1990, to niche in 2000, to commonplace by the end of 2009. By the dawn of the 2010s, near comprehensive online-only stores like Amazon and virtual marketplaces like eBay had taken a vast share of high street trade.
Here we celebrate the local family businesses Loiners loved and lost in the 1990s and 2000s. And for good measure, we've included a couple of chain stores notable for their short life and questionable choice of location. Lillywhites This four-storey sports store – the largest outside London – opened on the Headrow in 1996. The shop opened with a sumo wrestling match and a Queen Elizabeth II lookalike. Really.
Music Ground folded in 2011 after the company was found to have sold instruments stolen from a vintage guitar shop in Italy. Buyers complained of receiving fake, 'cut and shut' guitars.Stolen From Ivor This oddly named jeans and youth fashion mini-chain was founded in Manchester by Ivor Hazan. But during its 1990s peak, you could find a Stolen From Ivor on Briggate . It's now an EE phone shop.
The chain had a presence in the UK in the 1990s including a restaurant on Briggate. Wendy's left the UK in 2001, citing property costs and other overheads. It's now a Jollibee fried chicken shop.Vend This shop in the Corn Exchange sold art – from vending machines. You could insert a few coins into repurposed snack vending machines and pick up watercolour and oil paintings, plus jewellery.
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