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It's not entirely a new concept - the one in Maryhill is near where they had a "firsts and seconds" shop. I'm not sure if it was unique to Glasgow, or perhaps inherited from the City Bakeries chain they took over in the 90s.
martin | 10.12.22 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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it's a well-known fact that if food is half-price for quick sale, it only contains half the original calories. So it was safe to eat your festive bakes.
amber | 10.12.22 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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Ever wondered why poor people don't eat healthy food?
Tony | 10.12.22 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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Cos they’d rather spend their money on Sky TV, cigarettes and gambling?
Micky Take | 10.12.22 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Subject matter aside, this is a superb piece of writing.
Waterhouse | 10.12.22 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Still missing Percy Ingles.
coffin dodger | 10.12.22 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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The stuff the rich don't want, trickle down in action.
Still Anon | 10.12.22 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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While there is no Greggs Outlet in my locality Greggs is pretty good at donating unsold goods to the local food bank where I help out.
Pete_LL | 10.12.22 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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There seems to be a Greggs shore wherever you turn in Newcastle. 30 looks to be the current count. That's approximately one Greggs of every 10,000 people in the city. At lunchtime all have a queue. I wonder if any other retailer (.....Subway?) can claim a higher density of provision.
Rod | 10.12.22 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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I suspect the reason that more Greggs food isn't donated/resold in outlets is due to the food hygiene regulations, which are very very strict on how long things can have been held at various temperatures before they must be thrown away.
And rightly so, as food poisoning from meat products not properly stored (temperature wise) is almost a certainty.
I wish that chains like Greggs also sold healthy food at a reasonable price.
Blue Witch | 10.12.22 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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Very well written in the style of the Guardian.
We live near the Leicester one, it took me a while to get my head around an even cheaper Greggs.
Also useful is the Too Good To Go app. Shops selling off a surprise bag of yellow stickered food at the end of the day. Very good value. Helps if you have a freezer then you don't have to eat it all at once.
Sarah l | 10.12.22 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Suspect that they will not be opening a branch in Cornwall any time soon.
scrumpy | 10.12.22 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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I hope this is overstocked stuff that doesn't even make it to a standard branch, rather than being collected again and moved which would be a waste of time and energy, and deprive struggling people of cheap food in that area.
Andrew S | 10.12.22 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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As far as I can make out there is one Greggs Outlet in Southampton, and it's in Woolston - Woolston being an area of that city, albeit to the east of the Itchen. Some news websites mention an Outlet in Millbrook Road in the west of the city, but more general websites give this as an ordinary Greggs shop.
dg writes: Greggs says it's an Outlet store.
cau1khead | 10.12.22 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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With Greggs for either density or poor local reporting it's hard to beat the headline in the Northern Echo a few years ago:
"Greggs is on a roll as it opens its 2,000th shop in South Shields"
Just how many Greggs does South Shields need?!
Tim Roll-Pickering | 10.12.22 - 12:51 p.m. | #
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The "smashed in pasty shop"
lumma | Homepage | 10.12.22 - 12:59 p.m. | #
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It should be called "Dreggs".
Basil Jet | 10.12.22 - 2:02 p.m. | #
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My son and I went to Newcastle at Easter, mostly to visit the Beamish Museum... we passed a Greggs outlet on the bus. I was astonished that there was even a possibility of somewhere too poor for even a standard Greggs... what a shit time to be alive
Herned | 10.12.22 - 10:51 p.m. | #
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Ironically, I did stumble on it by accident, on a walk around Custom House station on Tuesday. I got a very nice chicken roll for my lunch, so that was a result…
Baldassaro | 11.12.22 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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The Westgate Road Newcastle branch was rebranded as a "Bakery Outlet" about 10 years ago. Previously, it was a "Greggs Seconds" shop. Back in the 90s, there was often a queue outside. In the 80s, my scout troop did jumble sales locally to there. Sadly, quite a poverty stricken area.
AndrewR | 11.12.22 - 11:13 p.m. | #
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I also remember the Seconds shop on Westgate Road from early 00s,especially cheap yumyums. Fortunately for my waistline it was not on a regular walking route.
Stotties | 13.12.22 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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It only took MyLondon 17 days to get here too.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.12.22 - 4:04 p.m. | #
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