SUPERMARKETS across England have one feature that is often overlooked by shoppers. Brits were floored to find out the reason ...

Have you ever walked into a big supermarket and wondering why it has a clock tower? Turns out, there is a historical reason for the odd feature – and it all began in Essex ...

Dorset supermarket is calling on creative minds to take part in national design competition to feature on a billboard.

The design was intended as a facelift for the store, which is part of Sweden's ICA supermarket chain and had been given many smaller additions over the years without an overall design direction.

Filmmaker Chris Spargo traces this trend back to a specific Asda store in an Essex new town, pinpointing the origin of a design that swept the nation. The concept of supermarkets, borrowed from ...

A curious design feature connects almost all UK supermarkets constructed in the 1980s and 90s - characterised by a barn-like structure, often crowned with a purely ornamental clock tower.