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Sainsbury's - Gallagher Retail Park

Sainsbury's employs about 161,000 staff across 1,200 stores, depots and support centres across the country, recently they announced a reduction of 800 in store staff as part of a nationwide restructuring programme. Today is Black Friday and unlike supermarket rivals ASDA, Sainsbury's will be playing a ‘very moderate’ role in this imported tradition from the states. Last year over £800m was spent across Britain with chaotic scenes in a some stores as consumers scrambled to get the best deals before Christmas.

Gallagher Retail Park, located just two miles outside of Cheltenham Town Centre, between Swindon Village & Uckington on Tewkesbury Road boasts over 500 parking spaces available at no cost for consumers. The site also hosts numerous chain stores that can be found in identical Out of Town shopping locations across the country such as Next, Pets at Home & DFS. The entire retail space measures up to 149,688 square feet across 12 units, 37.66 % of which is owned by British Land, who also operate the massive Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield, and numerous Public spaces in London.

Out of Town retail spaces for the UK have grown in popularity rapidly, at the peril of traditional High Street shopping locations, with 987 stores closing on High Streets across the country in 2014. The trend follows the American Power Center model of building on cheaper, utilising an anchor store (Sainsbury's) attracting other retailers to let more affordable land on the outskirts of towns and cities. More recently however there has been an effort to limit the size and impact these locations have on their local environment, planning controls have been tightened to preserve the countryside from traffic & pollution by encouraging the building of smaller units on brownfield sites instead.