A-ha success with two more hit singles from the same album—"Train of Thought" and "Hunting High and Low" (with another innovative video) —and the band remained popular throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The band's first album, 1985's "Hunting High and Low", became a worldwide bestseller, spending most of October and November in the top 20 of "Billboard"'s Top 200 album chart. The album and its four hit singles garnered international recognition for A-ha. "Hunting High and Low" earned triple platinum status in the UK, and reached platinum status in the US and Germany, while earning gold in Brazil and the
William Low take over Hintons, which later became part of Safeway. In 1985, Wm Low took over Laws Stores at a cost of £7.1 million. Laws had a group predominantly based in the north-east of England with a portfolio of smaller stores than Wm Low. Wm Low proceeded to close unprofitable Laws stores in 1986. In 1989. Wm Low attempted to take over Budgens, a move described by Budgens as a friendly merger and which had looked to be a done deal. This deal ultimately collapsed. Also in 1989, James Millar of Wm Low approached John Apthorp, owner of Bejam Freezer Centres