A family member is arriving at Malaga airport early in October and I have agreed to pick her up even tho' it is a 6 and a half hour round trip from Baeza. I thought that I might use the day to also do some shopping at Iceland in Fuengirola, what with Christmas so near and all. A few British treats would certainly go down well after six years of doing without. I telephoned Iceland and asked for their post code so that I could programme the sat-nav with as much detail as possible. They gave me the post code but there are a bewildering amount of destinations specified under that number.

If anyone on here lives near said store - is there a road name that they could give me that I could punch in to the sat-nav? I tried putting in 'Miramar Retail Park', both in Spanish and English but with no result.

Thank you.

Its off the a7 Mijas. Parque commercial Miramar. I cant remember the name of the road.... I'll have a look and see if I can find it...

Pje Molino de Viento! Close to the big Eroski centre

jo xxx

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...841637&iwloc=A

Jo xxx

Well, I'd hurry up because the owners are in the process of flogging the business.

Read any of the UK financial papers.

Thanks very much indeed. I did actually find that map myself but was worried that, knowing my luck in these things, I would have ended up on the wrong side of the motorway Mediterraneo and wouldn't have been able to get off until I hit either Cadiz or Almeria!

Fingers crossed.

I don't actually - left all of that behind when I retired.

OK - decent sausages and bacon consigned to oblivion.

Our nearest Lidl does great English back bacon - €1.48 for a 250g pack - my OH is making himself a bacon sarnie as I write

(Only suitable for those that don't find Lidl beneath them of course )

I do 80% of my shopping in Lidl - love it! Never seen back bacon though. Jaen is a backwater though - should be grateful for electricity I suppose.

We go to 3 different Lidls and only one of them sells the back bacon which seems very strange to me. But as you said it is very good.

Rosemary

I've searched but can find no reference to this - can you point me in the right direction of a link please.


Is it "Overseas SL" that is for sale or "Iceland Ltd."?

Why would that make any difference?

The "Iceland" stores in Spain are an entirely separate company owned by Overseas SL and sell many other products apart from Iceland brands including Waitrose products.

If Sainsbury Tesco or Asda take over Iceland in the UK it would only improve things.

I telephoned some friends in Sevilla who adore Iceland in Fuengirola and told them what frigilianafreddy had posted. They immediately telephoned Iceland who denied vehemently that they were to close. I suppose that they would wouldn't they? They did ask (Iceland that is) where my friends had obtained this information and were told that it was the subject of a thread on an Internet forum. Wait for some new posters/members to 'pop up'.

Yes its not "Iceland" as such, so it could be either Overseas SL are changing brands or they are selling and whoever takes over will continue to sell Iceland stuff. Either way I find it hard to believe it wont continue in more or less its existing format, its hugely popular and the goods are very well marked up!!!!

Jo xxx

It has doubled in size since it opened also, not really a sign of selling because of lack of trade.

You have it the wrong way round Jo.

As you say, "Iceland" Spain doesn't exist. Iceland in the UK are being approached by the major supermarket players as they want their outlets.

Overseas SL - who we all incorrectly call "Iceland" will continue to sell whatever British products they choose to import - there is no suggestion that they are for sale which is why they denied it strongly.