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Originally posted by eek View PostThe Co-op have redesigned themselves around stores of a certain size. Above that size and the co-op store "concept" doesn't work so they try and offload the store to someone else instead.
Locally I have one co-op to the west of us (in the new Garden Village) which is probably suffering after an Aldi and M&S opened next door 18 months ago and in the shops in the "village" to the East we have 2 co-ops. One store is too big for the Co-op but too small for anyone else to want it so it remains a co-op. I should point out that I live within a half a mile of both - it's just this side of town is expanding rapidly out to the motorway.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostThey've been trying to do that for the last 20 years! Failed to realise that they needed to keep some of their big supermarkets to maintain buying power with the suppliers - as long as the big stores aren't running at a loss, keep them open to keep cost prices down.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Ours has been there for donkey’s years; I used to shop there when I lived near here around 1990. It’s a 1920s or so style building, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was originally built by East Midlands Co-op, or whatever they were called back then.
There’s one in a suburb-that-used-to-be-a-village not too far away that’s being taken over by Morrisons in a month or so
Does not help that when they did the re-brand in 2009 the branding was not just used by the Co-operative Group (which is the main one) but also by all the other 'independent' Co-ops which still exist.
I probably know a lot more about this than i should so i won't bore anyone.
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Originally posted by original PM View PostThere are still quite a few 'Co-ops' in the UK - many people (like me) just assumed all Co-ops were part of the same business.
Does not help that when they did the re-brand in 2009 the branding was not just used by the Co-operative Group (which is the main one) but also by all the other 'independent' Co-ops which still exist.
I probably know a lot more about this than i should so i won't bore anyone.
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostI'm sure JtB would be happy to discuss it at length should anyone care
Has anyone ever seen him and OpM in the same room at the same time? #JustSayin…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostThere are still quite a few 'Co-ops' in the UK - many people (like me) just assumed all Co-ops were part of the same business.
Does not help that when they did the re-brand in 2009 the branding was not just used by the Co-operative Group (which is the main one) but also by all the other 'independent' Co-ops which still exist.
I probably know a lot more about this than i should so i won't bore anyone.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThough apparently it might rain later
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Another broken night’s sleep, once I finally managed to drop off, which itself took absolutely ages
I seem to be getting used to this.
Maybe it's me age, like.
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Ours has been there for donkey’s years; I used to shop there when I lived near here around 1990. It’s a 1920s or so style building, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was originally built by East Midlands Co-op, or whatever they were called back then.
There’s one in a suburb-that-used-to-be-a-village not too far away that’s being taken over by Morrisons in a month or so
My cousin (adopted) was sent down for 18 months in connection with the naughty goings on, rather than the arson.
IIRC he was paid £150/week when that Was A Lot.
It was rebuilt, then eventually closed the nonfood side of it, the food bit remaining until the Millennium IIRC.
Now the nonfood bit is the JobCentrePlus(tm), while the other bit turned into some sort of primary health place.
One of my mates in Ye Newe/Olde Sloughe of Desponde lives down west and is greatly pissed off that his local Co-op shop in ?Crosshads? is shut or shutting.
A man for food bargains is our Gareth.
Just remembered: 2nd computer I bought came from Swansea Co-op in that large building that now holds TK Max, whatever the feck that is.
It was a Dragon 32, reduced to £30, now essentially valueless, they don't even make the 6809 anymore & haven't for 20 or so years.
The first computer was a Jupiter Ace, for which I paid the princely sum of £38 and which is essentially quite valuable if ebay is anything to go by, assuming that the prices indicated ever get paid.
The Briton Ferry & Neath Co-operative Society (1916-1975) originated in Briton Ferry and later expanded to Neath where in the 1950's they opened the town's first supermarket in Alfred Street.
With over a dozen branches of varyng size in the Borough (Neath and Briton Ferry), they ruled the roost in the grocery and butchery business until their demise in the in the mid 1970's by which time Tesco were on the scene with a supermarket in Queen Street.
The other Tesco that replaced it was itself replaced by the Neath Abbey store, chopped in half to fit a Wilko's in one half, then closed & demolished.
There are grand plans for the site but I'll have croaked before any of it happens.
Lunch was poached tomato and scrambled egg on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toast (crust), this being preferable to the multi seed variety, followed by 1.05 pints of good Glengettie tea.
This used to be a Co-op branch back in the day:
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Funeral home now.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 6 January 2020, 13:17.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostThere are still quite a few 'Co-ops' in the UK - many people (like me) just assumed all Co-ops were part of the same business.
Does not help that when they did the re-brand in 2009 the branding was not just used by the Co-operative Group (which is the main one) but also by all the other 'independent' Co-ops which still exist.
I probably know a lot more about this than i should so i won't bore anyone.
Allegedly CWS and CRS was a merger in 2001 - nothing at all to do with the co-operative values and principles of a society having an obligation to save a failing society if possible, honest.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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