Good news! A supermarket that has not fallen for LED

[HIDLamp]

Booths have a few stores round here notablly in Kendal, Ulverston and Windermere. So far none are LEDd and the old lighting is still reactively re-lamped when a handful have failed (usually 6-7 in the main area).
Kendal's store dates to 2004ish and features MH floods in the rafters and T5s on brackets from the shelves to illuminate the stock.
Ulverston used to be lit in 1200x1200 modular fittings, big uplighters and little uplighters in the entrance where the trolleys are, these used to be SON but have been converted to MH. They also have 50W SON on the veg and SS T8 link lights on the alchol again more T5s on the shelves.
Windermere used to be lit using what looked like lowbays recessed into the grid ceiling again SON converted to MH but last year they were all ripped out for suspended T5.
As for outside. Kendal in SON P256s?, Ulverston is MH unknown lanterns and Windermere has SON Vectras and some HF fluro bollards.
And like I said before all of these still get re-lamped regualrly and promptly uppon failure. Virtually no LEDs in sight. There are a few more HID luminaires in each but that's the main stuff.

[Slyspark]

For now.....

[Flurofan96]

Apart from Aldi store in Bath Road, pretty much every supermarket in Reading has gone all LED

[dor123]

Shufersal at Stella Maris center, still have 80W T5 HO lamps.

[GreatNorburyStDepot]

My elderly Auntie lived in Lytham and always shopped at Booths (once referred to as ‘The Waitrose of the North)’. She wouldn’t shop anywhere else.

Very much a high end retailer (with prices to match), the premises were understandably ‘swish’. No doubt their conservative style ensured that these forms of old lighting would always survive, even if more economical forms of lighting was available. The old mantra of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is obviously still important at Booths.

Of course, the other way of looking at this is that to re-equip even a modest store, would make a fair dent in the company balance sheet. There may be other reasons why investment in the estate isn’t being prioritised, including rising prices for everything and a customer base which is being eroded by the large discount chains.

That said, the company seem keen to promote small food suppliers in the local area so perhaps they are concentrating their efforts in this market, rather than the ‘bricks and mortar’ side of things.

[Oliver]

Booths at Keswick is mainly LED. Been like that for a while too unfortunately.