The Most Sustainable Sainsbury's Ever Built

Do you remember the famous Sainsbury's Millennium Eco Store? Had you forgotten about it and wondered what happened to it? Find out in this short video exploring the history of the most sustainable supermarket ever built.
It was so famous, even Jacob Zuma went to see it:
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[@sevenodonata]

"Opened by Jamie Oliver" - no wonder it didn't last! 😂

[@jaketaylor9961]

I do miss this store. I would shop there every Sunday with my family. We would all get Starbucks and sit and relax after the shopping. The woman in the meat deli counter would always give me a free slice of ham to walk around with. Heck I was there all the time. After the cinema at night? Straight to Sainsbury's! Literally diagnosed with cancer? Straight down to the Sainsbury's with my family. There's just something about how beautiful the building was, it just made it an absolute joy to be in! When im in Ikea, I do think back and I do really miss it :(

[@londonundergroundfan1563]

Great Narration! Truly depressing ending 😂

[@cariad561]

I bought my blahaj from that Sainsbury's

[@Nooticus]

Excellent video as ALWAYS! keep them coming legend!

[@distractionbucket7454]

Cheers!

[@selorm]

When that saindbury's opened it was so awe inspiring for me as a child (and the cinema). It was better than the dreary sainsbury's in Woolwich, I don't know who designed that one, it's so awful. I miss the memories of running for my life to get the bus home after shopping with my mum, before life got so awful for no good reason. (cancer mate, my mum told me in the platform level of north greenwich, the best place to tell your child).

[@antncs6]

I remember the store it was actually rather nice in a bog standard way

[@officialk8]

So sustainable that after 16 years it got demolished. Gotta love greenwich council 🤦‍♂️

[@Andrewjg_89]

Imagine if Sainsbury’s brought Ikea. I have been to Ikea at Thurrock Lakeside and Tottenham.

[@jayturner5242]

This is really sad actually. This store was built to last (presumably) and then bulldozed because capitalism

[@1258-Eckhart]

Can I just briefly please make a shout-out for the concept of the "principle", the definition of which inheres in immutability. A principle is something one adheres to, or seeks justification for. It is not something (dear Sainsbury's) that you ditch the next day, because gosh, here is suddenly the antiprinciple. That only implies (thought through) that the anti-antiprinciple is just round the corner. Thereby would principles as such (acc. to Sainsbury's) be worthless. If that is so, we can also ditch common law, which is founded not in codified (Napoleonic) definitions, but in unspoken and thus construable principles (case law). Here, just as a reminder, the principle remains unaltered, and the method for its realisation is subject to jurisdiction (Rechtsprechung).

[@1258-Eckhart]

As an unexpected synchronicity, this link illustrates my argument very well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGqcoHqrlpuJaJI (the architecture of Louis Kahn). Every building's principle is humanistic shelter, nought else.

[@ajfrostx]

LOL.

[@Vyker]

Sustainable but didn't even last twenty years. Sad