Day 136 - 16 Jun 95 - Page 13
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2 Q. Right. Are you talking about more than half of the kitchen
3 area of floor or are you talking about more than half of
4 the stores in the country?
5 A. I would say the majority of the stores in the country
6 had a non-slip floor material in the kitchen area where
7 they were designated to be.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, and these particular places in the
10 kitchen area?
11 A. Yes.
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13 MS. STEEL: Right, but some did not?
14 A. There might have been some in the early days, yes, but
15 like I said, from the time that I joined the Company when
16 I used do the feasibility plans, all the stores that I drew
17 up specifically for the London region had a non-slip area.
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19 Q. That is what you were putting in?
20 A. Yes, but it was not Altro at the time.
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22 Q. It was not Altro at the time. Was it the first type, first
23 two types, of tiles that you showed us?
24 A. That is just two examples of the various type of
25 non-slip floor that we used to put into the kitchen area in
26 the non-slip areas.
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28 Q. But they were roughly the type that you were using?
29 A. Yes.
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31 MR. MORRIS: Just to confirm, it is tiles No. 1 and 2, that kind
32 of -----
33 A. That kind of tile which had a non-slip property
34 inherent in it.
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36 MS. STEEL: When did the Company start using Altro, start
37 fitting some stores with Altro?
38 A. I would say roughly about 89/90.
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40 Q. Right, and Altro was replacing the type of two tiles we
41 have just looked at?
42 A. Yes.
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44 Q. Because, presumably, the Company thought it was better?
45 A. Yes.
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47 Q. You do not know what proportion of stores eventually came
48 to have Altro fitted on the floors in areas of the kitchen?
49 A. Well, most of the new developments that we were doing
50 invariably had the Altro flooring.
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52 Q. The new stores would?
53 A. The new stores would, yes, and that would be all across
54 the regions.
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56 Q. In terms of retrofits, is that just the ones that we saw on
57 that sheet -- I think there were 11 stores?
58 A. Yes, that was just one area of retrofit within our
59 region.
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