Hoopers (department store) explained

Hoopers is an English department store chain founded in Torquay in 1982. It is now trading from four department stores and online.^[1]

Locations

Harrogate, formerly Hewletts (previously Schofields, prior to that Cresta House and originally the Harrogate branch of Marshall & Snelgrove; acquired 1996)
Torquay, formerly Williams & Cox (acquired 1982)
Tunbridge Wells, formerly Weekes (acquired 1990)
Wilmslow, formerly Finnigans (acquired 1982)

Bradford, Hewletts (formerly Sara; acquired 1996)
Carlisle, formerly Bulloughs (acquired 2006; closed 2013). http://www.ens-global.com/Mediaclips/xovxwk.asp?id=9&t=Carlisle%27s%20Hoopers%20department%20store%20to%20close%20for%20good.html
Cheltenham (opened 1987 in premises formerly occupied by Cheltenham's main Post Office; closed 2003; building now occupied by Waterstones)
Chichester (opened 1988)
Colchester (formerly the Colchester branch of Keddies, acquired as a going concern in 1987)

Web site: About Us - Hooper Stores . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141219181546/http://www.hoopersstores.com/about_us . 19 December 2014 . 19 Dec 2014.