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[ColJack]

after having another one of my ideas crushed when someone else did it first ( drive through chippy...!! ), I've just had another brainwave..

suppose that a local shop started to do deliveries..?

yes I know that tesco and the like do home delivery, but I'm talking about the mini-mart / paper shop down the road...

you phone them up and tell them you need loo roll, 3 yorkies, a tub of vanilla ice cream and 6 cans of fosters and they deliver it in a few mins.. ??

I suppose it would be sort of like G-G-G-Granvile in "open all hours".. he did deliveries on his bike..

 

[JohnD]

great idea. But how much extra would you pay? Granville would presumaby need to be on duty at all hours awaiting your call.

I was amazed to find that high-street pharmacies will still deliver your prescription if you are really ill and have no-one to help.

 

[Thermo]

anything to put a dent in tescos, and the rest, im all for small local shops. Just watch hughs chicken run on channel 4 to see what i mean.

 

[gcol]

I suppose it would be sort of like G-G-G-Granvile in "open all hours".. he did deliveries on his bike..

Steve has a Fiesta diesel now! Don't poke fun.

anything to put a dent in tescos, and the rest, im all for small local shops.

Tescos have just delivered to châteaux gcol, marvellous service for the working family.

Small shops are very expensive compared and have little in the way of choice. They will only survive if they're in out of the way areas or specialise.

 

[Steve]

rrmoved

 

[securespark]

Small shops are very expensive

With all due respect, matey, have you stopped to think why Tesco and the like are so cheap?

 

[gcol]

Small shops are very expensive

With all due respect, matey, have you stopped to think why Tesco and the like are so cheap?

With all due respect 'matey', of course I have. Because they buy direct and cut out the middle man. Being the major market player they can buy in bulk and demand a low price.
If I can save money buying my beans at Tescos rather than the local Spar shop, I will.

 

[tim west]

I think he meant the exploitation of farmers in third world countries and here.

 

[Steve]

I think he meant the exploitation of farmers in third world countries and here.

One reason why the co-operative is more expensive than most retailers for most products. They pay fair prices for most products. And theres the fact that most of their stores are smaller than Tesco.

 

[JohnD]

I suspect their high costs are due to the excessively generous wages

 

[megawatt]

Can't restrict the argument to food ... All retail products have the same exploitation and will continue to do so whilst driving down costs is the mission statement ... TV's, cars, computers, irons, washing machines etc etc etc.

Whilst we are driven by the pursuit of "things" exploitation is inevitable.

MW

 

[Thermo]

where do you think your milk you get from tescos comes from gcol?

 

[Steve]

where do you think your milk you get from tescos comes from gcol?

Cows.

But in all seriousness, go to a Coop in Yorkshire and you'll find branded Yorkshire milk. Go to a coop in cheshire and you'll find branded cheshire milk. Several sizes (most popular) are only available in the regional variants. Of course, bear in mind, the milk still has to go via the chilled distribution centre.

 

[Thermo]

go to tescos and its imported in from baltic countries and the like. Go to places like dorset and youll see a dairy industry all but extinct as the big giants have driven prices down to low for local farmers to have a viable business anymore. Hence you get mass produced milk from abroad thats been thinned down and another industry screwed into the ground, with more jobs gone. Still every little helps

 

[tim west]

go to tescos and its imported in from baltic countries and the like. Go to places like dorset and youll see a dairy industry all but extinct as the big giants have driven prices down to low for local farmers to have a viable business anymore. Hence you get mass produced milk from abroad thats been thinned down and another industry screwed into the ground, with more jobs gone. Still every little helps

You are blaming tescos solely here yet the consumer must take some of the blame for wanting prices so cheap, the argument could come in that why cant dorset dairies compete on price? paying too high wages?
or taxed too hard?