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I agree with Professor Calba.

Another of the largest petrol station retail groups, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) have all their filling stations branded as Londis or Budgens (previously Costcutter), yet they are basically standard garage shops, with high prices. They abandoned their Morrisons Daily trial and went with Booker's Budgens & Londis. They've clearly realised people will stop at their sites to pick up shopping while filling their tanks, as consumers will be drawn in by the recognisable convenience store brands. All the large groups operating petrol stations are at it.

Shell's company owned Shell Select sites have been changing to Budgens and a few are now Little Waitrose stores operated directly by Shell (unlike the old Little Waitrose Shell service stations operated by Waitrose).

With MRH (Malthurst), they are more keen on using their own brand, Hursts, though some of their sites are also Spar. Will be interesting to see if they transfer many sites to the Budgens and Londis brands.

All Euro Garages forecourts trade as Spar.

Rontec has some Spar stores but have mostly used their own brand, Shop'N Drive since ditching the Snax24 branding.Rontec have been converting many sites to Morrisons Daily, including the few Family Shopper (Booker) sites that they had.