Costcutter - Great Dover Street

I stumbled upon some info today on how the Co-op stocks stores. To all intents they stock all stores in a size category with the same things regardless of location. This might explain the sudden appearance of lard on the shelves alongside the enormous reduction in beer and cider brands stocked compared to Costcutter. This in turn may explain why there is almost nothing on the shelves of the Co-op stores that can't be had elsewhere for less and no end of stuff that can be had in almost all the independent stores locally (and in some instances in Tescobury's), but is not on the shelves at the Co-op stores.

Basically, they all think we live in an overwhelmingly white, anglo-saxon bit of suburban Manchester c.1950. The very idea there might be anyone in the country who might like Belgian beer or Nigerian Stout or Parmesan or anything other than meat and potato pies, lard and excessively salty bacon (I won't be making that mistake again) simply hasn't occured to them.

boroughbloke wrote:

I stumbled upon some info today on how the Co-op stocks stores. To all intents they stock all stores in a size category with the same things regardless of location. This might explain the sudden appearance of lard on the shelves alongside the enormous reduction in beer and cider brands stocked compared to Costcutter. This in turn may explain why there is almost nothing on the shelves of the Co-op stores that can't be had elsewhere for less and no end of stuff that can be had in almost all the independent stores locally (and in some instances in Tescobury's), but is not on the shelves at the Co-op stores.
Basically, they all think we live in an overwhelmingly white, anglo-saxon bit of suburban Manchester c.1950. The very idea there might be anyone in the country who might like Belgian beer or Nigerian Stout or Parmesan or anything other than meat and potato pies, lard and excessively salty bacon (I won't be making that mistake again) simply hasn't occured to them.

ha ha, chez pixie we've decided it's kwiksave, salford, late '80s.

I suspect even Salfordians had worked out Lard was bad by 1980 even if they did continue to smoke 80 Lambert & Butler an hour and got a panic attack when deciding whether their bag of chips or their kid in the push chair was more worthy of their attention as was the incident I saw on an escalator in Manchester's Arndale Centre. The couple in question eventually settled on the chips and let the pushchair go. Thankfully, it only bumped down two steps before trundling off towards a set of stairs and was intercepted by an elderly man.

boroughbloke wrote:

The couple in question eventually settled on the chips and let the pushchair go. Thankfully, it only bumped down two steps before trundling off towards a set of stairs and was intercepted by an elderly man

I've only just stopped laughing. That is hilarious!

maurits - you've hit the nail on the head.

Lidl is only 10 mins walk away

Gavin Smith wrote:

boroughbloke wrote:

The couple in question eventually settled on the chips and let the pushchair go. Thankfully, it only bumped down two steps before trundling off towards a set of stairs and was intercepted by an elderly man

I've only just stopped laughing. That is hilarious!

what a heartwarming tale of everyday northern folk.