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Morrison's Economic Stores
Aberdeen
Morrison's Economic Stores Morrison’s Economic Stores, known locally as Raggie Morrisons, were the Poundland of their day, buying up surplus and bankrupt stock, piling high and selling cheap. I doubt any clubs will bear their name as the idea was to get goods in and out the door again as quickly as possible but, please, tell me if you know otherwise.

They advertised ‘over 60 years in business’ in October 1935 which, of course, suggests being founded in the 1870s. The first location was in the Lower Denburn on a site now occupied by the Denburn car park. A fire caused a move to 101 Union Street before relocation to the pictured location on the corner of St Nicholas Street and Netherkirkgate.

Most of their advertisements for golf clubs were from between 1910 and 1914. This 1914 offer for golf clubs being typical,

‘Thousands of them offered today at 1s 11˝d . Putters, Drivers, Lofters, Brassies …. Many have eminent makers names on them. These are not ordinary clubs. They are bargain lots at less than half-price’.

In the 1920s they used the tagline ‘The Universal Providers’ but from then on the ‘bargains’ tended to be clothes and drapery which was their main business but, apart from clothes for golf, there were occasional surprises: 10,000 hickory wood shafts in 1923 ‘At the store 2˝d. Regular cost price 2s 6d or more’ i.e. 1/12th of the price.

The store was taken over by Marks & Spencer in February 1944 and continued under its old name until the following year when it lost its Morrison’s identity. “Not just mashie niblicks, Marks and Spencer mashie niblicks”. No, didn’t happen: that was the end of selling golf equipment. The building stayed the same until 1964 when M&S expanded, moving the adjacent Wallace Tower stone by stone to Tillydrone and building their current store on the site.

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