Retail

A Wingers storefront (Image: Wingers)

FRIED CHICKEN BOOM: Six major chicken chain openings in 18 months — and now Wingers picks Swansea for its biggest ever UK restaurant

By

Kit Peters

7 Min Read

The interior of the Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea showing the vacant former Debenhams unit, with the Debenhams fascia still visible across three entrances, a Krispy Kreme kiosk in the foreground and shoppers passing through the atrium beneath a glass roof

SWANSEA: New arrivals, fresh casualties — and the tenants tipped to fill the former Debenhams as Centurion’s big reveal nears

When we asked Swansea Bay News readers last summer which brands they…

By

Kit Peters

11 Min Read

Morrisons Daily convenience store in Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire

MORRISONS DAILY: Supermarket giant announces 100 convenience store closures blaming government costs — we’ve identified the south-west Wales stores that could be affected

By

Kit Peters

5 Min Read

Kev Johns MBE raises a pair of scissors to cut a yellow ribbon at the entrance to the new CK Foodstores in Bynea.

Kev Johns makes emotional first public appearance since stroke — to open new CK store for community he loves

Swansea entertainer Kev Johns MBE has made his first public appearance since…

By

Kit Peters

7 Min Read

A composite image showing Cllr Martyn Palfreman (top left) and Cllr Edward Skinner (bottom left), the Hengoed ward councillors for Llanelli, alongside a Google Maps street view of the Pinopolis entertainment centre on Sandy Road — the site where Aldi is proposing to build a new supermarket.

LLANELLI: Local councillors welcome Aldi jobs but demand traffic improvements as condition of planning permission for Sandy Road supermarket

The two county councillors for the ward where Aldi wants to build…

By

Kit Peters

4 Min Read

The Post Office in Neath within the TGJones store - shown with previous WHSmith branding

TGJONES: New Deputy First Minister raises alarm over Neath Post Office threat as she writes to chain over closure risk

Sioned Williams MS, who this week became Wales's Deputy First Minister, has…

By

Kit Peters

6 Min Read

Artist's impression of the proposed Aldi supermarket on Sandy Road, Llanelli (Image: Aldi)

LLANELLI: Aldi to build £7m supermarket on site of Pinopolis — the entertainment centre that only opened three years ago

Aldi is planning a brand new £7 million store in Llanelli on…

By

Kit Peters

5 Min Read

Shoe Zone store on Stepney Street in Llanelli (Image: Shoe Zone)

RETAIL: Shoe Zone is closing stores across the UK — here’s what it means for shops in Llanelli, Neath, Swansea, Carmarthen and Port Talbot

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Kit Peters

7 Min Read

A close-up of the TGJones storefront inside the Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea, showing the chain's blue signage to the left, a red Post Office sign in Welsh and English ("Swyddfa'r Post") in the centre and a Toys R Us giraffe display to the right

TGJONES: Bailiff threat and tax debts cast fresh doubt over south-west Wales stores as WH Smith refuses to fund redundancy payments

By

Kit Peters

5 Min Read

TSB bank on Union Street in Swansea (Image: Google Maps)

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TSB brand to disappear from south-west Wales high streets after Santander completes £2.9bn takeover

TSB customers in south-west Wales face the prospect of their bank disappearing…

By

Kit Peters

7 Min Read

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