Tesco leaving Connswater.

A question about : Tesco leaving Connswater.

Anyone else hoping an Asda might take over the Tesco space at Connswater.
Sister would really like a Primark.

Best answers:

• there will be rumors and counter rumors about who will move in .believe nothing until the official announcement .
  I know when tesco moved out of Rushmere in Craigavon ,there where all sorts of ruumors it was going to be Asda ,Primark ect .Turns out it was divided into two smaller discount stores .
• I remember a few years back there was talk that ASDA had bought some ground near Connswater and would be building. Then the recession hit and nothing happened.
  You could get a Iceland or nothing at all.
• No chance of a John Lewis then?
• Too many Tesco's in that general area anyway so it was always going to happen......
  There's a Tesco in one guise or another in:
  Connswater, Castlereagh Road, Cregagh Road, Ormeau Road, Newtownbreda, Rosetta, Saintfield Road, Uppernewtownards Road,....
  They're bl00dy everywhere..... No Need....!! Give local independents a chance, you'd be amazed how much cheaper they are on a lot of stuff !!! I noticed a load of the "necessities" at Christmas were cheaper in my local Spar than in Tesco's....
• Where I live both the Castlereagh one and Newtownbreda one are both closer and bigger than the nearest Asda (Dundonald) but we still go there for our weekly shop: cheaper, better quality (meat and fruit & veg) and they're not busily collecting lots of data on me and my family in return for a few pence in points
• To be honest the Co.op is a dear hole! The one at Rosetta seems to have things 3 times the price than other places. If something on offer you have to check the small bar code to make sure its the right items as the number of times overcharged at the till. My major bug is the Pepsi, so its on offer apart from the Max, so what the hell is the difference??? Pepsi is Pepsi yet very very rarely is the Max included in the offer. Every other place has all Pepsi included in offers. I was even told once that an offer I saw on UTV for an item, was only for England!!!
  Rant over.
  The only time I go to the Tesco is for their 25p 2 litre sparkling water.
  The MACE is no longer a MACE but a Today store.
• Someone told me a while back that Tesco were going to open a new Express store near the Knock Road/Upper Newtownards Road junction, where the old Gilpins Furniture shop was.
  And according to this application: Z/2014/1274/A that may be happening!
• The Tesco at Gilpin's was half completed, then shelved. They are now finishing the building and have a To Let sign up and the agent letting it is..........Tesco
• Tesco have stopped all building so doubt any new stores will be popping up. As for Connswater without another big name food store it may well be difficult for it to survive.