I can only hope the optimists amongst us are right - I can't see me buying much from them. It's not as if a Sainsbury's local will stock cheap basic ingredients - they tend to go for the "value added", i.e. ready-prepared, processed, manufactured instant solutions to the evening meal problem in my experience. I can see that appealing to the young professional market, but not so much the older ones amongst us who have the time, skill, experience and motivation to cook from scratch daily. I'd be sad to see us lose the Honor Oak Supermarket as it has always been a good standby for me when I run out of anything. I'll certainly try to use them instead of Sainsbury's for milk etc. if I run out. The Deli? Not so much. Though I currently buy bread there fairly regularly, it's terribly overpriced to my mind. If competition brings their prices down then maybe they will survive. Or perhaps they will be expanding their catering business - I have no idea how big a proportion of their income comes from that rather than the shop. So hard to tell when change = progress and when it doesn't! And I'm SO cynical about the big food retailers. Anyone bought any burgers recently? ;-)