The concept of supermarkets, borrowed from the US in the years following WWII, initially introduced the UK to rather austere, soulless buildings; some so bleak that architecture critic Lance ...

Supermarkets were a post-war innovation, imported from the US. Some of the earliest UK examples were ugly, purely functional buildings, with architecture critic Lance Wright comparing some to ...

"Our pricing, our availability, and our range architecture - that has all started...we're starting to make some progress." Mr Leighton said the supermarket was looking to put more staff on the ...

Post-WWII supermarkets, drawing inspiration from American designs, initially sported drab, utilitarian aesthetics, to which architecture critic Lance Wright once likened to "concentration camps." ...