Coffee was £8.00 for 250g a few weeks ago, now less than £4.00
24 Pack Pepsi anything from £10.00 in some Supermarkets. Paid £6.20 in Co-oP yesterday albeit for 2x12 packs.
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What coffee do you buy at £32 a kilo??
I buy coffee beans from Costco. Usually Lavazza or Kirkland and can vary between £9-14 a kilo depending on whether any deals are on.
My conscience wants me to buy beans from local roasters but their prices are far outwith the level which my conscience can afford.
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At that rate the people winning big pay rises will have to pay it back!!
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>> What coffee do you buy at £32 a kilo??
Hasbean mostly. Can't imagine their prices dropping. On the bright side M&S is now cheaper than Morrisons and their alcohol free Brewbog was mispriced yesterday, offering packs of 8 for a fiver.
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>> 24 Pack Pepsi anything from £10.00 in some Supermarkets. Paid £6.20 in Co-oP yesterday albeit
>> for 2x12 packs.
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Why shop in Co-op?
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>> Why shop in Co-op?
Some of the CoOp fair trade wines, are very good.
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The shops are scruffy and run down. They have a poor selection of stock and their prices do not compare with other leading supermarkets.
In the Which? list of best supermarkets for shopping in-store, Co-op came tenth out of ten, scoring one star out of five for value for money.
Their day - if it was ever here - has been and gone.
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They aren't really a supermarket, more like a chain of large corner shops. Seem busy to me whenever I go in one, people still shop there.
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Our local Coop convenience shop reminds me of Fine Fare, where I worked Saturdays as a teenager. A proto supermarket with two tills, and a bit scruffy. Handy however, under 3000 sqft so open all hours.
Long time since I've seen a Coop proper supermarket, do they even exist now?
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Yip they do.
Co bought over quite a few Somerfield sites. Who had bought them from Safeway.
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>> The shops are scruffy and run down.
There are 2 types of Co-Op. Blue and Green. Not sure what the difference is, but when I tried to exchange some vouchers for a drinks promotion they had, I was told in the local Co-Op down the road "we don't take those here, you need to go to one of the Blue Co-Op shops"
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There's a national co-op and then some regions have their own co-op. Same name but different companies.
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That’s correct. Those with the blue logoare part of the Co-operative group which was the old Co-operative Wholesale Society which acquired most of the retail societies. Some remained independent like the East of England Cooperative Society which has a lot of stores in this area. Our local one is actually very good and use it a lot
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I have two near me, one I can walk to. Ok you wont use them for your weekly shop, but they are handy and open longer hours. Their day is still here, in fact they bought out the Morrisons Locals.
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Why shop in Co-op?
It's the only Supermarket where I live. I go there to buy odds and ends as I can walk there
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The local store is modern - I'm a member of the co-op and I get good offers on some stuff there. Big shops are Sainsbury's or Morrisons - too far away to walk.
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>> Why shop in Co-op?
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>> It's the only Supermarket where I live. I go there to buy odds and ends
>> as I can walk there
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Same as down here.
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Had an interesting chat about this the other day.
Without 200 yards I have a Co-Op and a convenience store.
Prices are extortionate. Loaf of bread usually about the £1.75 mark as opposed to £1.20 in Lidl which is just over a mile away.
But.
Jump in the car to drive to Lidl for only that loaf and it probably works out dearer taking fuel into account?
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Food prices are rising at a commensurate rate in Spain, but eating out can still be dirt cheap compared to the U.K.
3 course evening meal, choice of several starters, mains, desserts, plus a salad entree, and as much wine as you can drink, and a help yourself decanter of brandy to finish...€17. I rarely leave any tips anywhere, but with such prices I feel almost obliged to pay €20. And normally do.
Taking my mum out for lunch today, a bowl of soup, pudding and pot of tea, £28 for the 2 of us. Two courses, no alcohol. No tip.
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When cooking for just two of us, I quite often buy the ingredients from our local shop. Dearer than the supermarkets per item, but walking distance from the house, open all hours and I only buy exactly what I need for that meal rather than treat it as a weekly shop. They usually have a good selection of fresh products and I don’t mind paying a small premium for the convenience.
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...and I don’t mind paying a small premium for the convenience.
Couldn't you wait until you get home for that?
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As the years advance, not always.
;-)
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>> Without 200 yards I have a Co-Op and a convenience store.
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>>Loaf of bread usually about the £1.75 mark as opposed to £1.20
>> in Lidl which is just over a mile away.
Well, it's horses for courses, isn't it?
We don't have a supermarket within walking distance - apart from the farm shop which is an arm and a leg.
Two Waitrose' and a Lidl (I initially typed Aldi - I find it hard to distinguish between the two) about mile and a half away. So Lidl gets most of the Duncan dosh.
Small Tesco fairly recently opened in Esher High Street, so that's a drive. Big Tescos, which I quite like are four or five miles away. Sainsburys similar.
I really don't know where my nearest Co-op is. A member of my extended family, who is a dedicated Socialist drives to their nearest town, parks up, does as much shopping as possible in't Co-op, then, whatever they are out of - which is usually quite a few things - he will go anywhere but Tesco to get a replacement. His politics won't let him go in to Tesco! How bonkers is that?
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I meant to include in my reply the fact that Lidl do wholemeal loaves @ 35, or is it 39p? Certainly less than 40p. What's wrong with that?
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We won't go hungry round here. In the 'village' we have 3 Co-ops, a Morrisons, an M&S Food, 3 Tesco Express, a Londis and numerous small convenience stores.
The Co-op is fine for most stuff, our dog likes their own food and they also have a bakery there, The parking is good and they have a few small trolleys, which are useful for me.
Stuff they don't stock, like Canderel tablets and pump toothpaste are now ordered from Amazon, half a dozen at a time. Otherwise we would have to go to the big Tesco a mile or so away, although their tinned tomatoes on fried bread in the cafe are a must !
Ted
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Must be a big village….my village (giggleswick) has a post box. Two pubs, neither of which I no longer frequent. One is now a Thwaites pub ( awful expensive beer and no guest beers). The other simply expensive beer…last time I was in they hadn’t sold sufficient of a certain barrel, it tasted sour, smelt like vinegar and they wouldn’t change it.
Needless to say at that point they lost my considerable custom forever. Their loss.
Better more friendly pubs in Settle one mile away
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>> Must be a big village….my village (giggleswick) has a post box. Two pubs, neither of
>> which I no longer frequent.
Pedant alert!
It's yer double negative, or summat, innit?
Any road.
My village/town (Esher) has two pubs, two surgeries where you won't see a GP, 863 restaurants and 3,274 coffee bars. Oh and a newish tiny Tesco.
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And a fair few estate agents Duncan?
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>>My village/town (Esher) has two pubs, two surgeries where you won't see a GP, 863 restaurants and 3,274 coffee bars. Oh and a newish tiny Tesco.
Sounds like hell, to me. My 'hamlet' has one pub (touristy) no surgeries. restaurants, coffee bars.
No shops or public transport, but miles and miles of walks in open country. (Did I mention the rain?)
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Where you (ish) now Doggo.
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Ah well, if it's bragging rights yer after, we also have the largest municipally owned cemetery in Western Europe, 2 crematoria.......and a fair few undertakers and florists.
If we were more rural, we'd be a town. Probably bigger than some of the smaller cities.
Ted
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>> Ah well, if it's bragging rights yer after, we also have the largest municipally owned
>> cemetery in Western Europe
I worked at the City of London cemetery for the summer (grass cutting, piecework believe it or not) after leaving school, as it was literally over our back fence (the joy of quiet neighbours!!). For some reason I always understood that to be the largest.
It's Wikipedia page says it was the second largest municipally owned one in the UK behind one in Belfast until Brookwood was bought by Woking Council in 2014. I wonder what the measure is though?
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I think City of London is privately owned, as is the actual largest, Brookwood Necropolis.
Ted
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Brookwood was bought by Woking Council in 2014.
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"The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium in the east of London. It is owned and operated by the City of London Corporation."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Cemetery_and_Crematorium
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>> "The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium in the east
>> of London. It is owned and operated by the City of London Corporation."
I have 6 family plaques/graves there
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Brookwood Cemeteries (military and multifaith) are good walks, they organise guided tours. No dogs allowed alas.
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I had a look round Brookwood when we stayed with friends in Woking. Dugald Drummond is buried there in the LSWR plot.
There's an interesting book about the Necropolis Railway.
Ted
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>>Where you (ish) now Doggo.
Smack bang in the middle of Bodmin Moor. Nearest supermarket is a round trip of 30 miles :)
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Still a few parts of the UK where Co-Op has 'proper' Supermarkets. I'm reasonably familiar with the one in Stornoway and see others on the Scottish mainland. They also supply local stores with tinned food etc with the Co-Op branding.
There were a few locally when we moved to Northampton 30+ years ago but they closed long ago. Still a big player in the local convenience store scene though including sites on new build estates.
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In the Algarve there is an "English" supermarket, where one can buy all those essentials I generally go abroad to get away from.
But apparently we needed some salad cream so we went there.
ISTR quite a bit of their stuff, but by no means all, was Co-op branded. I presume it's official but maybe not.
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Got a couple near enough to me to be within their starship (www.starship.xyz) delivery area. I have to order one every time we have visitors who aren't familiar with them.
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Prices ! Crazy. - Bobby
