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We want to hear from you:
Many photographs, documents and objects have been generously donated to the Sainsbury Archive by customers and former colleagues. We would like to gather and record your experiences of working (and shopping!) at stores, offices and depots to add a personal touch to the records.
Share your recollections, upload an image (please note we can only accept files in gif, jpg and png formats) to add to this growing treasure of memories.
Share your memories -
Have a memory of an item in the catalogue, or a specific branch?
Connect your memories to the archive, start from an object or a store.
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As a three-year-old, I remember my mother shopping in this store. I remember...
1930-1950, Shopping habits
As a three-year-old, I remember my mother shopping in this store. I remember...
Bill, 3 South Parade, South Road, Haywards Heath, 1950-1951
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I remember the store security lady confronting some 'UFO' fans from the Reading...
1960-1980, Shopping habits
I remember the store security lady confronting some 'UFO' fans from the Reading...
IAN ADAMSON, Friar Street, Reading, 23/08/1980
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Did anyone else have the great fortune of spending time working in Shaw's in the...
1990-2020, Shopping habits
Did anyone else have the great fortune of spending time working in Shaw's in the...
Jon Hartland , Shaw's New Hampshire , August 1993
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My experience of Sainsbury's is of my father working as a butcher. He worked for...
1930-1950, Shopping habits
My experience of Sainsbury's is of my father working as a butcher. He worked for...
Derek Dorey, Southbourne, 1950
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A Berkhamsted girl, married in September 1958. Working in an office all week,...
1960-1980, Shopping habits
A Berkhamsted girl, married in September 1958. Working in an office all week,...
Janet Cox, Hemel Hempstead. Apsley, 28.05.2019
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In the 1970's I used to shop with my mum, in the Oxhey branch of Sainsbury's. ...
1960-1980, Shopping habits
In the 1970's I used to shop with my mum, in the Oxhey branch of Sainsbury's. ...
Sandra Pearson, Oxhey, 1970's
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"I love Sainsbury's, I used to think that it was a shop where only posh people...
1990-2020, Shopping habits
"I love Sainsbury's, I used to think that it was a shop where only posh people...
Val longstaff, Sainsbury's, rice lane, walton, liverpool L9, 24/1/2019
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"My mother used to shop in Sainsbury's in Coventry. It was a small store at that...
1930-1950, Shopping habits
"My mother used to shop in Sainsbury's in Coventry. It was a small store at that...
Vivien Howes, Coventry, 1955
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"I used to go to the shop in Morden, Surrey for my mother. I was 14. The...
1930-1950, Shopping habits
"I used to go to the shop in Morden, Surrey for my mother. I was 14. The...
Margaret Green, Ely, cambs, 26.l.2019
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"I started my long career at JS as a trolley boy at Lewisham. We had an odd...
1960-1980, Shopping habits
"I started my long career at JS as a trolley boy at Lewisham. We had an odd...
John Smith, 037 Lewisham, 1981-85