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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Lifestyle
David Morton & Jess Molyneux

Lost supermarket chain that sold Cadbury's Smash and Heinz tinned beef burgers

A lost supermarket chain, remembered for its "freshly baked bread' and discount prices was loved for years in Greater Manchester and beyond.

Many will remember once shopping at a Presto supermarket. A big brand name from the early 1960s to late 1980s, it was a division of a larger company called Allied Suppliers Ltd.

The company was said to have been looking for a name for a new discount shopping store in the north east and ended up deciding to remove the ‘n’ from Preston in North Tyneside to create the name Presto, Chronicle Live previously reported.

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