Mungo"Two Sheds-" Toadfoot
UK supermarkets 756The number of people actually cooking at home has diminished over the years......most working mums now get a "pudding " out of the fridge. Yoghurt, Ice cream , sweet things in plastic...
You do have a valid point, but saying that so has June.
UK supermarkets 759Yes. Of course. Smkts wouldn't exist if the bulk of consumers did not buy from them. Trouble is the...
If over the years we have ambutted all of these gadgets to save us time so that we can spend more time doing things that we like to do ........
The problem is that all these time saving things have not worked out, we have gone from in most cases, but not all one bread winner in the household to two people working to make ends meet.
Customers shop with there feet, an old saying but it is true, supermarkets have been around for a long time in the UK in one form or another it is just that we do not think of the that way. Think of the Coop, Spar Groceries, my mind is a little hazy but I am sure there was-is others. Small scale of the giant monsters we know now.
Supermarkets put every thing under one roof and the customers saw it as a great saving time wise but for got the one valid point and that was quality and service. The small trader that June is talking about did not wake up in time some not all to see what was happening.
No one should be forced to do any thing that they do not want to.
But!!!!!
If I as a small trader put out a quality product that may or may not be higher in price that the supermarket quarter of a mile away I would think that the customers shopping at the supermarket had money to throw away
UK supermarkets 758There are supermarkets and supermarkets. Being busy is no excuse. If I can manage to do my own cooking - and I am disorganised by nature...
There is nothing natural, understandable or progression about shopping in a supermarket, if you are shopping for generic items usually dried goods that are the same all places you go into then that is fine.
I-we use supermarkets to get the soap and arse wipe soap is soap and we do not get the newspaper hence the a.... wipe :-)) Meat I bring home but saying that we would find a place that has the quality not the quanbreasty. Fish I get when I go see the mother in law as the river is very close to the farm ..... wild salmon $1 a lb that's just over 2 quid a pound , a large bag of shrimp will only cost about $5, Halibut I have not checked the price of yet. I used to get a 50 lb sack of spuds for a couple of dollars.
I am lucky to live in a wonderful place like this, within fifty miles all the fresh fruit and veg is grown we can go and pick most thing but fruit and veg stands abound, also like Graham, I too am only three hours away from the fruit-wine capital of British Columbia. :-))
