Colour-shifting supermarket

 The Tesco Extra store off Park Road has had a lot of changes over the years. It was originally built as a William Low store before the Scottish chain was bought by Tesco. It subsequently became a Tesco Extra. In the mid-2000s the store was practically rebuilt, losing its hipped roofs and gaining a huge glass frontage.

Now it's 2021, and the store has undergone the biggest (visual) change since then. When I visited the store in April this year, the store was painted white.

But the next time I visited, in September...


Several changes had happened since I last visited. The store had been painted grey (which seems to be the latest fashion, as quite a few houses on my street have also been repainted in some kind of grey!).

Also, the store's opening hours had been cut drastically. The store formerly advertised 24-hour opening hours, being open from midnight on Monday until midnight on Saturday each week. (If you're from the UK, I won't need to tell you how many hours it was open on Sundays.)

However, the opening hours have been dramatically sliced down to 7 am to 11 pm Monday to Saturday (which is a slap in the face for Loughborough's biggest supermarket, since they now have opening hours that are one hour shorter on each end of the day than the Tesco Superstore in The Rushes Shopping centre, which is open from 6 am to midnight!)


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