List of supermarket Chains in the United Kingdom - wikipedia List of supermarket Chains in the United Kingdom For UK Convenience store, see List of Convenience stores of the United Kingdom. For UK discount stores, see List of discount stores in the United Kingdom. For UK Clothing & Footwear Retailers, see List of current and defunct clothing and footwear stores in the United Kingdom. Tesco is the largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. This is a list of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom. Grocery sales in the UK are dominated by Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury 's and Morrisons. These, dubbed the ' big four ', had a combined market share of 73.2 % of the UK grocery market in the 12 weeks ending 4 January 2015, a decline from 74.1 % in 2007. Discounters Aldi and Lidl have seen a combined rise in market share from 4.8 % to 8.3 % over that time, while upscale grocer Waitrose 's share rose from 3.9 % to 5.1 % In early 2017, Tesco announced a deal to merge with Booker, the UK 's largest wholesale food retailer, while Aldi became the 5th biggest supermarket. Premier Supermarkets, a subsidiary of Express Dairies, opened the UK 's first supermarket in Streatham, South London in 1951, though The Co-operative Food opened Britain 's first fully self - service store in March 1948 in Albert Road, Southsea. Contents 1 List of current UK supermarket chains 2 List of defunct UK supermarket chains 3 Waitrose Effect 4 See also 5 References List of current UK supermarket Chains Supermarket Image Founded / came to UK Owned by August 2017 Market share February 2017 Market share 2015 Market share 2007 Market share 2000 Market share Number of stores Notes Aldi 1990 Aldi Süd GmbH 7.0 6.2 5.3 2.6 1.5 560 No frills supermarket Asda 1949 Walmart through subsidiary Corinth Services Ltd 15.3 15.6 17.1 16.6 14.1 603 Founded from the merger of Associated Dairies and the Asquith family owned Queens Supermarket, originally called ASDA Queens Booths 1847 Booth Family and staff - - - 28 Found in Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire, and Cheshire. Budgens 1872 Booker Group 0.4 0.4 0.4 190 Found in England and Wales, with stores up to 10,000 square feet ( 930 m ) Co-op, * and Co-op Food or The Co-operative Food 1844 Various consumers ' co-operatives 6.3 6.0 6.0 4.4 5.4 4,022 Identities shared by about 20 retail co-operatives, including : The Co-operative Group East of England Co-operative Society Midcounties Co-operative Central England Co-operative Scotmid See also : The Co-operative Group # List of corporate members Farmfoods 1955 - 0.7 0.5 - 320 - Fulton 's Foods UK private company - - - 100 Small supermarket chain based in South Yorkshire with branches across the Midlands and North of England Heron Foods 1979 UK private company - - - 290 Primarily frozen foods ; operates stores throughout the Midlands and the North in 2017 Cooltrader were rebranded as Heron foods, five years after being sold to that company. Iceland 1970 2.1 2.1 2.3 2.2 1.6 2.8 850 First store opened at Oswestry, Shropshire in 1970 Lidl 1994 Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG 5.2 4.5 3.7 2.2 1.3 630 No frills supermarket Marks & Spencer 1884 Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange 3.8 4.3 - 852 Clothing and food retailer Morrisons 1899 Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange 10.4 10.9 10.9 11.2 4.9 569 Fourth biggest supermarket in the UK Ocado 2002 Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange 1.4 - - - 0 Online only, product supply partnership with Waitrose ; outsourced branded delivery partnership with Morrisons Sainsbury 's 1869 Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange 15.8 16.5 16.9 16.2 17.9 1,304 Superstores, as well as ' Local ' and ' Central ' sites Tesco 1919 Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange 27.8 28.1 28.4 31.6 25.0 3,493 ( UK ) Including Extra, Superstores, Metro, ' Express and Homeplus outlets ; UK 's largest all - purpose retailer Waitrose 1904 John Lewis Partnership 5.1 5.3 5.1 3.9 2.7 344 Waitrose has a variety of store styles, including : Waitrose Stores Convenience Stores and Little Waitrose John Lewis Foodhall Food, Fashion & Home Food & Home Welcome Break outlets ( motorway services ) List of defunct UK supermarket Chains These supermarkets are either no longer trading, have been renamed, or have been taken over and rebranded. This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. Supermarket Image Founded / came to UK Fate Closed Notes APT Stores Chain of small supermarkets with the catchphrase The Store with More. Bejam 1968 Bought by Iceland Frozen foods Big W 1998 Discontinued, rebranded as Woolworths. 21 store chain of megastores styled after Walmart in America ; 7 of the stores were sold to Asda and Tesco ( the stores that had permission to stock groceries ) and the remaining 14 stores were rebranded and downsized under the regular Woolworths banner. Bishops Bought by Budgens 1984 63 stores in south east England BP Safeway 1962 Dissolved following Safeway takeover by Morrisons Partnership between BP plc and Safeway, listed as Equinox retailing ; some stores now Tesco Express Brian Ford 's Discount Store Bought by Tesco in 2004 Opened by Brian Ford after the sale of the family Ford & Lock business to Gateway in 1974. The business opened in the former Deveres Kensington engineering building in Barnstaple, Devon expanding with an extension in 1981. The business was based on the ' cash & carry ' principle. The business was purchased by Tesco in 2004 but continued to be run as Brian Fords until permission was gained to build a Tesco Extra. Burton Supermarkets Bought by Fine Fare Small Nottinghamshire based supermarket chain purchased by Fine Fare and re-branded Capital Freezer Centres Now owned by Farmfoods Chain of freezer stores located in England and Scotland ; owned by United Biscuits since 1979 ; a management buyout happened in 1989 Carrefour 1970s UK business sold to Gateway / Somerfield, then later to Asda 1990 Cartier 's Superfoods c. 1970 Bought by Tesco 1979 Small Kent based supermarket chain taken over by Tesco Cater Brothers 1958 Became part of Prestos 1979 Cater Brothers were a South East - based chain. In 1972 they were bought out by Debenhams after the death of the chairman Leslie Cater in the same plane crash that killed FJ Wallis. In 1979 Debenhams sold the chain to Allied Suppliers who re-branded the stores under their Presto brand. Challenge Supermarket Became part of Frank Dee Supermarket based in Yorkshire that was purchased by Frank Dee in the 1980s and incorporated into the chain. Cooltrader brought out by Heron Foods 2017 Opened in Wrexham, founded by Iceland founder Malcolm Walker. Cooltrader became part of Iceland after Malcolm Walker 's takeover of that business, then sold in 2012 to Heron Foods. Coopers & Co Bought by Fine Fare 1955 Scotland based supermarket and grocers chain bought by Fine Fare and re-branded as Coopers Fine Fare Cordon Bleu 1964 Owned by Argyll Supplies Chain of freezer shops owned by Argyll Supplies ; stores were re-branded under the Lo - cost or Presto name County Stores Sold to Gateway, converted to Somerfield 1990 Crazy Prices Bought by Tesco ABF owned Northern Ireland group Dalgety Freezer Centres Bought by James Gullivers Argyll Supplies 38 freezer centre bought by James Gulliver and added to Argyll Supplies Cordon Bleu business. David Greig Bought by Fitch Lovell Merged into Key Markets DEE Discount Stores Re-branded as Gateway, later Somerfield now owned by Co-op Chain of supermarkets based in North East of England ; parent company Linfood Holdings purchased the smaller Gateway chain and re-branded stores as Gateway and the parent company as Dee Corporation Downsway Supermarkets Bought by Fine Fare 1978 East Anglian based supermarket group with 80 stores owned by Vestey Group ; sold in 1978 and converted to Fine Fare stores Elmo Bought by Fine Fare Small chain of 28 stores based in East Anglia and the South of England ; bought for £ 1m by Fine Fare ; rebranded as Fine Fare Fairway c. 1960s Bought by Frank Dee 1980s Doncaster based chain of supermarkets bought by Frank Dee in 1980s and converted into that chain Fine Fare 1951 Bought by Gateway 1986 Britain 's third supermarket until the 1980s behind Tesco and Sainsburys ; bought by Gateway Corp. in 1986 and shops rebranded as Gateway by 1988 Ford & Lock 1960 Sold to Gateway 36 shops across south - west England ; owner Brian Ford went on to open a new store in his own name Freeze Fair 66 freezer store chain owned by Jobs Dairies bought by Argyll Supplies and added to Cordon Bleu chain. Freezeway Bought by Farmfoods Small chain of freezershops bought by Farmfoods FreshXpress 2007 Administration in 2008, liquidated in 2009 2009 Smaller stores of former Kwik Save chain ; bought out by management team led by Brendan Murtagh Frank Dee Supermarkets Re-branded as Gateway, later Somerfield now owned by Co-op Chain of supermarkets based in North East of England ; parent company Linfood Holdings purchased the smaller Gateway chain and re-branded stores as Gateway and the parent company as Dee Corporation Galbraith supermarkets 1894 Bought by Allied Suppliers, then Argyll Group Scottish chain Gateway Foodmarkets 1950 Rebranded as Somerfield Grandways Some stores sold to Argyll Group for their Presto chain and Kwik Save, remainder renamed Jacksons 1992 / 3 Regional in Yorkshire GT Smith Bought by Co-operative Group 2002 Regional in West Yorkshire Haldanes 2009 ( including UGO stores ) 2011 Went into administration 2011 Hanburys 1889 Bought by Co-Op 1997 Started in 1889 when Jeremiah Hanbury opened a small store in Market Street, Farnworth, selling butter and bacon. In 1929, the business was bought by Bolton wholesale grocers E.H. Steele Ltd. In 1997 the 31 Hanburys stores, which cover the north - west, including 8 in Bolton, were acquired by United Norwest Co-op and subsequently re-branded. Hillards 1880 Bought by Tesco Several locations throughout Midlands, North East Hintons Bought by Argyll Foods to become part of Presto Mainly in North East England and Yorkshire Irwin 's Stores Bought by Tesco International 1874 Bought by Dee Corporation Stores were re-branded gateway or sold off to competitors Jacksons Bought by J Sainsbury 2008 See also Grandways, above, which was originally part of the same group. Stores originally traded under the Jacksons name, and were slowly converted to the Grandways brand. After the sale to Sainsbury, the Jackson name was revived for a chain of smaller stores in the Wm Jackson until they were sold and were re-branded Sainsbury Local. Kenton Supermarkets Small chain based in North West of England Key Markets Bought by Dee Corporation Created by food giant Fitch Lovell. Re-branded as Gateway. Kibby 's Supermarkets Chain of supermarkets bought by Unigate. Stores were sold off to various companies including WM Low and International Stores. Kwik Save 1959 Brand now owned by Costcutter Company purchased by Somerfield in 1998. Name and 177 stores sold by Somerfield in 2006 but went into administration in 2007. Laws Stores c. 1890s Bought by Wm Low for £ 7.1 million in 1985 1985 Chain of supermarkets focused on North East England Lennons Supermarkets 1958 Bought by Dee Corporation Chain of Supermarkets based in North East. Started as small chain of grocers but opened first supermarket in 1956 in Widnes. Bought by the Dee Corporation before being re-branded as Gateway. Leos Rebranded Co-op Name given to larger co-operative stores during the 1980s Liptons 1871 Bought by Allied Suppliers Converted to Presto or Lo - Cost stores Lo - Cost Converted to Safeway Lowfreeze Bought by Bejam Small chain of freezer shops bought by Bejam Mac Fisheries Bought by Dee Group 1978 Wet fish shops closed Mainstop Acquired by Morrisons 1981 Moore Stores Bought by Cavenham and added to Allied Suppliers group 1976 Chain of small supermarkets based in the North East of England which had a turnover of £ 53m in 1969 / 70 Rebranded either Liptons or Presto. Netto 1990 Bought by Asda in 2010 for £ 778M from Dansk Supermarked Group. 147 stores were rebranded in 2011 as Asda local stores. The remaining 47 stores have been sold off to other companies such as Morrisons and new convenience store UGO and other retailers due to competition laws. Netto then returned to UK, with a partnership with Sainsbury 's and is initially opening 15 stores in the north of England. In July 2016, Sainsbury 's ended the joint venture, scrapping the Netto name in the UK once again. 2011 Was a no frills supermarket. On 30 September 2011, Netto UK ceased trading. In 2014, the supermarket announced they would be returning to the UK with 15 stores. Normans supermarkets Bought by Plymco Normid Rebranded Co-op Was owned by United Co-operatives Norco Rebranded Co-op Aberdeen based co-operative society Orchard Frozen Foods Bought by Iceland 1986 Chain of freezer centres based in the South East of England Premier Supermarkets Bought by Mac Fisheries 1965 Subsidiary of Express Dairies, opened UK 's first supermarket in Streatham, South London in 1951. Sold after losing out on purchase of Irwin 's stores to Tesco Presto 1977 After buying out Safeway, all stores were converted to Safeway 1998 Price Rite Chain of stores purchased by British American Tobacco and incorporated into International Stores ; stores re-branded as International Stores, before being sold off to Fine Fare and Argyll Foods Quality Fare Bought by the Co-operative Group Queens Supermarkets 1958 Merged with Associated Dairies and GEN to form ASDA 1965 Small chain of supermarkets started by Asquith family in Pontefract. In 1965 merged with Associated Dairies and purchased the GEN brand, relaunching as ASDA Queens, before becoming ASDA. ASDA is an abbreviation of ASquith and DAiries. Rainbow Discontinued, rebranded as parent Co-op Richway Supermarkets Retail chain operating in South of England and the Isle of Wight Safeway 1962 Bought by Morrisons 2005 Safeway Compact stores sold to Somerfield. Was still trading under Safeway in Channel Islands until becoming Waitrose in 2010. Sainsbury 's Freezer Centres Bought by Bejam 1986 Sainsburys opened the chain of freezer shops to try and compete with the new style of food store, with the first store opening in Southbourne near Bournemouth. By 1980 there was 21 freezer centres, but these were sold off in 1986 to Bejam. Sainsbury 's Savacentre 1977 Discontinued, Rebranded Sainsbury 's 2005 Savacentre was a joint project started by Sainsburys and BHS to compete in Hypermarket scene. Sainsburys added when BHS pulled out of the company. Saverite 1968 Bought by West Midlands Co-operative Society which later became Mid-counties Co-operative after a merger with Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co-operative 2000 Shropshire based grocery business started in 1869. Renamed Saverite in 1968 ( from Morris & Co ) and expanded into supermarkets. Sold to Mid-Counties Co-operative in 2000. Schofield & Martin Rebranded Waitrose c. 1965 Small chain of grocers based in South Essex purchased by Waitrose in 1944. Had the first self - service supermarket store within the Waitrose group in 1951. Shoppers Paradise Taken over by Gateway Discount food store chain created by Associated British Food from un-profitable Fine Fare stores. Became part of Gateway as part of Fine Fare purchase. Shop Rite 1972 Bought by Kwik Save, Still trades as ShopRite in the Isle of Man stocking a range of Waitrose & Iceland products as well as locally produced goods 1994 Discount supermarket chain Smiths Freezer Centres c. 1990s Small chain of freezer stores located in Essex ; went into liquidation during the 1990s Somerfield 1865 Purchase agreed by the Co-operative Group on 16 July 2008 for £ 1.56 bn ; from 2009 many larger stores were sold off and smaller stores rebranded to The Co-operative Food 2011 Food Giant Originally part of Somerfield group, all stores converted to Kwik Save following the Somerfield / Kwik Save merger Solo Trading name of Gateways - rebranded Somerfield Trading name created by Gateways St Catherine 's Freezer Centres Bought by Iceland Chain of 18 freezer centres located in Bristol and South West area Stewarts Supermarket Limited Bought by Tesco ABF owned Northern Ireland group Stitchers Supermarkets Bought by Downsway Small chain of supermarkets purchased by Downsway and re-branded Supernational Stores 1935 Bought by Gateway Templeton supermarkets 1880 Bought by Allied Suppliers then Argyll Group Scottish chain, rebranded as Presto Victor Value Bought by Tesco 1968 / 1986 Independent chain ; larger stores were rebranded as Tesco, remaining sold to Bejam in 1986 Wallis 1955 Bought by Somerfield 2003 Founded by Francis J Wallis of Rainham Essex in 1955. By 1968 there were 38 stores. In 1977 the chain 's 100 stores were sold to British American Tobacco and merged with their already owned chain International Stores. The stores were re-branded International. The company officially still existed and was wound up by Somerfield, who had purchased International Stores in 2003. Wavy Line Small chain of small supermarkets and convenience stores located in the South and South East of England Walter Willson Bought by Alldays Chain of small supermarkets and convenience stores in the north east of England and Cumbria Wellworths Bought by Musgrave Group & Safeway 1997 Northern Ireland supermarket chain split into Supervalu and Safeway Whelan Discount Stores Bought by Morrisons for £ 1.5 million 1978 Chain of supermarkets based in Lancashire started by Wigan Athletic FC owner David Whelan Wm Low Bought by Tesco Presence in Scotland and northern England Williamson & Treadgold Bournemouth based grocers that opened a supermarket at The Hampshire Centre. The store was eventually purchased by Sainsburys. Woolco 1966 Discontinued, rebranded as Woolworth and later bought by Gateway in 1986 1982 Hypermarket chain started by Woolworth Waitrose effect Proximity to a supermarket has been widely reported to be an amenity that can have a significant effect on residential property prices in Britain. Beginning under Andy Hulme and continuing under Mike Songer, the home mortgage unit of Lloyds Bank has published pricing research that examines the premiums commanded by homes in a given neighbourhood against comparables in the same post-code and correlates the difference in price with convenience of access to the various supermarkets. The following table averages information from neighbourhoods across England and Wales, compiled by Lloyds Bank for their 2016 report using supermarket location information from CACI Datalab and house price information from the UK Land Registry. Supermarket Nearby property premium ( % ) Nearby property premium ( £ ) Waitrose 10 % £ 38,666 Sainsbury 's 10 % £ 27,939 Marks & Spencer 9 % £ 27,182 Tesco 9 % £ 22,072 Iceland 8 % £ 20,034 Co-op 8 % £ 17,904 Morrisons 5 % £ 10,558 Asda 2 % £ 5,026 Lidl 2 % £ 3,926 Aldi 1 % £ 1,333 See also United Kingdom portal Companies portal Business portal Lists portal For supermarkets worldwide, see List of supermarkets. Kantar Worldpanel - UK grocery market share figures List of Convenience stores of the United Kingdom List of discount stores in the United Kingdom References Jump up ^ `` Asda overtaken by Sainsbury 's as UK 's second largest supermarket but big four continue to slide ''. CityAM. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015. ^ Jump up to : `` UK : Discounters Benefit From Downturn ''. KamCity. Retrieved 28 September 2014. Jump up ^ Finance ( 2017 - 01 - 27 ). `` Tesco merging with Booker in a £ 3.7 billion deal - Business Insider ''. Uk.businessinsider.com. 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Question: when was the first supermarket opened in britain
Answer: Premier Supermarkets, a subsidiary of Express Dairies