Sainsbury's trialed franchising their convenience store format to Euro Garages who planned to operate six small stores within its service stations, the first time Sainsbury's has trusted a third party to operate a Sainsbury's store. Beginning in Blackburn in 2016 Sainsbury's re-trained EuroGarages staff of 15 to operate the convenience store and later followed with stores in Heathrow and Bury. In February 2018 Sainsbury's issued a statement calling a mutual end to the trial: "following a commercial review, a joint decision has been made to bring the trial to a close."