These days, especially with the advent of mini markets, the ‘local’ competition is keener than ever it was. Even the bigger names have moved into the mini-market sector and their prices reflect local conditions.
There was a time, and I don’t know if it still applies, the Coop offered the ‘divi’ – dividend stamps on your card, read loyalty bonus. Used to be called ‘Cooperative and Wicks Society’ and was on nearly every corner. What a superb Socialist enigma. The days of those tram lines in the air, whizzing across the shop on wires on the way to the cashier sitting somewhere safe with the money.
At 14/15 years I had a pocket money job pushing a bike, loaded panniers of groceries front and back, all the way up Halton Hill in Runcorn. Boy, was that a hill. Its funny how there were usually two or three bags of Cadbury’s half covered biscuits in each pannier, each light by about two biscuits by the time I got to the first drop. What a rosy glow nostalgia brings.
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