{"id":31145,"date":"2020-01-28T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=31145"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:28:55","slug":"singhsbury-not-sainsburys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/singhsbury-not-sainsburys\/","title":{"rendered":"Singh&#8217;sbury Not Sainsburys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cheeky off-licence owner has opened his new store on Bushbury Road, Wolverhampton, and has a striking resemblance to one of the country&#8217;s giant supermarkets with a resemblance to the orange lettering of Sainsbury\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Mandeep Singh Chatha, explained how the name of his shop &#8216;Singh&#8217;sbury&#8217; came about.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I decided on the name. My name is Singh and it is on Bushbury Road!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He explained he put the two together and registered the name at Companies House.<\/p>\n<p>Mandeep, opened the store in December and has explained that the recognisable logo had proved a talking point for visitors, with plenty, including local police officers, amused by the branding and even taking picture in front of the sign.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Sainsbury&#8217;s themselves are as amused is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Mandeep, who has opened the business with his wife Hardeep, said he had worked previously as a sandwich delivery driver and had dreamt of being able to open his own business \u2013 a dream he has now realised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cheeky off-licence owner has opened his new store on Bushbury Road, Wolverhampton, and has a striking resemblance to one of the country&#8217;s giant supermarkets with a resemblance to the orange lettering of Sainsbury\u2019s. Mandeep Singh Chatha, explained how the name of his shop &#8216;Singh&#8217;sbury&#8217; came about. He said: &#8220;I decided on the name. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}