Shopping
Main Street is the predominant shopping area in Wishaw. It is partly made up of major national stores such as W H Smith, Peacock's, Poundland, Iceland and Superdrug.
The Main Street shopping area also features small independent retailers. There are also many supermarkets in the area, with a new small format ASDA in the eastern suburb of Newmains that opened on October 2007. A Tesco Extra superstore was also opened during November 2007, and is adjacent to the railway station, replacing the smaller Metro store on Main Street, about 150 metres (500 ft) from the new store. A 1991 built Morrisons (originally Safeway) exists on the eastern edge of the town centre and the original Safeway on Kirk Road (previously a William Low supermarket), about 300 metres (1,000 ft) from the new store, was a small market style mall and hosted various stalls and a café, however this mall closed on March 2009 and has been converted back to its supermarket form into B & M Bargains discount store. All three supermarkets mentioned have petrol stations situated next to them.
There is also an Aldi superstore in Glasgow Road that opened on September 2008, with the original store 150 metres (500 ft) away being converted into Sports Direct.
Wishaw also has the "Caledonian Centre", a shopping complex in the northern suburb of Craigneuk consisting of other national store chains such as Argos, Matalan, Brantano,Pets at Home and Homebase.
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“Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)
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—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
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