‘Singhsburys’ shopkeeper changes name to ‘Morrisinghs’ after legal threat
A shopkeeper in North Tyneside who was threatened with legal action after calling his store ‘Singhsburys’ has renamed it ‘Morrisinghs’, reports the Metro.
In 2012 Sainsbury’s contacted the family threatening legal action and asking them to remove the sign, which they did. The shop went nameless until last week when owner Jel Singh Nagra opted for ‘Morrisinghs’.
It wasn’t the first Singhsburys to attract the wrath of the supermarket – last year a shop that had nothing to do with supermarket giant Sainsburys opened in Aylesbury.
“The first part of the name is Singh, for our names, and the second is bury for Aylesbury.
“We used the colour orange because that is the colour of our Sikh religion,” Inderjit Singh Nagpal and Manmeed Singh Bhatia told the Bucks Herald. Sadly they dropped the name after the supermarket raised “concerns”. Maybe they could use Marks & Singhcer?
