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Here’s the story.",{"type":79,"content":755},[756,766,770,774,779,789,793,798,822,826,831,835,849,854,860,864,870,874,880,884,890],{"type":82,"content":757},[758,760,764],{"text":759,"type":86},"If you grew up in Hull, two colours do a lot of heavy lifting in your memory: ",{"text":761,"type":86,"marks":762},"red and yellow",[763],{"type":91},{"text":765,"type":86},". That striped awning. That cursive logo. And that daft little pencil fella in a bowler hat giving it the thumbs up. Grandways. 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Jackson’s took on the Grandways name and ran with it, rebranding its bigger stores as Grandways and building a chain across Yorkshire and into North Lincolnshire.",{"type":82,"content":790},[791],{"text":792,"type":86},"So every time you pushed a wonky trolley round Grandways, you were shopping at a bit of Hull history — a local family firm that had quietly become part of everyone’s week.",{"type":100,"attrs":794,"content":795},{"level":68},[796],{"text":797,"type":86},"So what happened to it?",{"type":82,"content":799},[800,802,806,808,812,814,816,818,820],{"text":801,"type":86},"The early 90s is where the trail goes cold. In ",{"text":803,"type":86,"marks":804},"1991",[805],{"type":91},{"text":807,"type":86},", Jackson’s decided to put its energy into a new convenience-store format — the ",{"text":809,"type":86,"marks":810},"Jacksons",[811],{"type":91},{"text":813,"type":86}," shops a lot of us still remember — and started selling the Grandways supermarkets off. 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In 1991 William Jackson & Son refocused on its Jacksons convenience stores and sold the Grandways supermarkets to the Argyll Group (Presto) and Kwik Save over 1992–93.",{"type":82,"content":865},[866],{"text":867,"type":86,"marks":868},"Who owned Grandways?",[869],{"type":91},{"type":82,"content":871},[872],{"text":873,"type":86},"Grandways was run by William Jackson & Son, the long-established Hull food company — making it a genuinely local chain, mainly across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.",{"type":82,"content":875},[876],{"text":877,"type":86,"marks":878},"Where was the Grandways on Princes Avenue?",[879],{"type":91},{"type":82,"content":881},[882],{"text":883,"type":86},"Right on Princes Avenue in Hull. For a lot of Avenues residents it was the go-to weekly shop.",{"type":82,"content":885},[886],{"text":887,"type":86,"marks":888},"Can I get a Grandways t-shirt?",[889],{"type":91},{"type":82,"content":891},[892,894,899],{"text":893,"type":86},"You can. ",{"text":895,"type":86,"marks":896},"Our Grandways print",[897],{"type":160,"attrs":898},{"href":382},{"text":900,"type":86}," comes on men’s and women’s tees and a hoodie, in a range of colours.",[902,322,319,555,903],"grandways","shopping","2026-09-24T09:00:00+00:00","Grandways Hull: The Story of the Red-and-Yellow Supermarket | 'Ulltmate","The history of Grandways, the Hull supermarket chain run by William Jackson & Son — when it started, why it disappeared in the early 90s, and why we put it on a t-shirt.",{"faq":908,"hero_credit":567,"related_products":916},[909,910,912,914],{"answer":863,"question":857},{"answer":911,"question":867},"Grandways was run by William Jackson & Son, the long-established Hull food company — a genuinely local chain, mainly across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.",{"answer":913,"question":877},"On Princes Avenue in Hull. For many Avenues residents it was the go-to weekly shop.",{"answer":915,"question":887},"Yes — the Grandways print comes on men’s and women’s tees and a hoodie, in a range of colours, at ’Ulltmate.",[569,917,918],"womens-grandways-print-t-shirt","grandways-print-hoodie","2026-10-02T14:47:32.904+00:00","2026-10-29T12:27:06.273686+00:00",{},1793300433931]