General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

If you think about it, this has been inevitable for a long time now, and the problem has I see it, is that it opened in circa 1982 and in those days I don't think there were any supermarkets in Hingley or Platt Wazz, there was a Kwik Save in Lower Ince, which was scruffy, there was Morrisons in Wigan Town Centre in the old Whelans store, and Asda at Newtown, Tesco in King Street closed in 1977 so the Ince Morrisons had no competition, or very little, so what about now .....

Lidl (Darlington Street)
Tesco (Hingley)
Aldi (Hingley)
Asda (Hingley)
Iceland (Platt Wazz)
Co-Op (Platt Wazz)

McColls (Hingley)
McColls (Lower Ince)
McColls (Hingley Green)

Spar (Hingley) was there before Morrisons, but has been expanded with a new store

Thats off top of me bonce, there are probably more, now has I remember at Amberswood where the Morrisons Store is located, in the early 1980s a big hospital was supposed to have been built there, which would have replaced Wigan, Leigh, Billinge, Whelley, Astley, Atherleigh, Firs Maternity Home Hospitals, so that might have been why they decided to build that store in Higher Ince, where there would have been passing trade from the big hospital, but it didn't get built because Wigan Council ballsed up the application for it to the government