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Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 275

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 25 6:50 am Post subject: Dinner is what you can afford
'Dismal' month for supermarkets pushes down retail sales Question is - are we eating what we can afford, shopping more wisely, doing more beans on toast ...? Or is all this reporting of rising food prices something to cover the quiet out of football season news?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16750

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 25 7:13 am Post subject:
Could be that people are being a bit more careful about what they buy. I notice that some of the aisles in the supermarket I use are fairly empty, so a good way of getting about the store easily. There are also either logistics problems or people are making use of cheaper options, offers, coupons and basics, which is what I tend to buy.

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 275

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 25 6:14 pm Post subject:
You can't even rely on the "special offers" if you have a supermarket loyalty card of whatever brand goes with your shop of choice. There must be a lot of people avoiding going into the food shops looking at the number of supermarket deliveries that come around here. And we are a village with good connections to various shopping centers.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16750

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 25 7:10 am Post subject:

Too many people are getting deliveries. Can't think why most of them do. When I was working, I used to go into the supermarket on the way home from work, so not a real problem. Now I have a shopping day where I make a tour of the shops I use. In the past I have gone out Saturday to get to shops other than supermarkets. If you really can't, for physical reasons, get to the shops, you need specialist food, or the travel is impossible because you don't drive and there is no bus, then yes, bot otherwise, better to go yourself.

In the past, a lot of shops did deliver. We had the bread, milk, eggs, meat and newspapers delivered when I was a child, but Mum used to walk to the shops to do the rest of the shopping. Admittedly she didn't go to work, but I always have, and managed all right.

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 275

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 25 3:39 pm Post subject:
Trouble is that we are rural here and butchers, bakers, greengrocers and such aren't on the high street. Even in the larger towns. They do appear at such things as farmer's markets. But these require travel. And planning as they are only every so often.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16750

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 25 6:39 am Post subject:

We are semi rural; on the edge here. We have a butchers and greengrocers down the road, but I use another butchers elsewhere as it is a farm shop where they raise their own beef cattle and pigs. Sheep from local flock. I have to buy groceries at the supermarket of at the local Coop, which is where I usually buy milk. A lot of people round here, even close to the local shops, get deliveries. Others catch the bus to the local town for the supermarket or go by car.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 9456
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 25 8:39 am Post subject:
No specialist shops here any more, even in the next village on the main road..the last ones closed last year. There are a few left in Ayr....

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 275

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 25 4:10 pm Post subject:

We have a new and enthusiastic county Councillor who is saying that the village needs a bus service re-instating to the nearest town for shopping purposes.

What he hasn't yet realised is that the shopping services on the main street where bus used to go don't include butcher (long since gone), baker (long since gone and now a barber) or the supermarket of choice which is now on the out of town industrial estate. Nor has he factored in that there is no longer a reliable cash machine or a bank on the street in question.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16750

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 25 7:16 am Post subject:
Perhaps he needs to do his homework better or someone needs to tell him. Round here the bus service doesn't access one of the local first schools, so the only way, as it is in a very small village, is by car.

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 275

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 25 11:10 am Post subject:
We do have a bus service to the out of "town" Aldi and B&M - to which you have to walk over an exposed river bridge from the village. And carry it all back. A few do. But only the younger and fitter.

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