Supporting local business

moggins

I have in my street, a Co-op, 2 butchers, a corner shop that sells loads of veg, a charity shop, an asian food shop, a pet shop and a sweet shop (plus car parts, fishing tackle, bakery/sandwich shop, 6 pubs and enough takeaways to eat different cuisine every day for a week).

As dh has an afternoon off on Friday and is going to get the kids from school I don't want to waste my time off doing grocery shopping. I'm going to do the shopping today in my own street and see how much of it I can get for my £30.

rchddap1

Love to join you. Except my village has a postoffice, a small co-op...and about 3 / 4 pubs scattered around. The nearest town has a butchers, but no where to buy veg except the supermarket. Another town has a farmers market.....but its held when we are at work.

Good luck to you though

Curry_Queen

I have in my street, a Co-op, 2 butchers, a corner shop that sells loads of veg, a charity shop, an asian food shop, a pet shop and a sweet shop (plus car parts, fishing tackle, bakery/sandwich shop, 6 pubs and enough takeaways to eat different cuisine every day for a week).

You don't happen to live in the same street as me by any chance LOL!

moggins

Sometimes I think I'm on a different planet too, so I could be?

tru

moggins wrote:

I have in my street, a Co-op, 2 butchers, a corner shop that sells loads of veg, a charity shop, an asian food shop, a pet shop and a sweet shop (plus car parts, fishing tackle, bakery/sandwich shop, 6 pubs and enough takeaways to eat different cuisine every day for a week).

One of the main reasons I miss living in your area
P'raps I could start riding my bike over, mind you I'd have to come over about 4 times a week, can't fit much in a backpack :rotfl:

moggins

troo wrote:

One of the main reasons I miss living in your area
P'raps I could start riding my bike over, mind you I'd have to come over about 4 times a week, can't fit much in a backpack :rotfl:

You could always take a healthy walk, pop in for coffee and I could drive you back laden with all your goodies:rotfl:

Debt_Free_Chick

I have in my street a church and the village pub

Nearest shop is the village PO (Londis), about 3 miles away, that stocks enough for emergencies. Incidentally, I noticed that a large bag of Plain Flour (1.5 kg ?) is only 59p in there. However, not everything is good value, but I use the PO and buy milk there.

Nearest village with shops is about 5 miles. That has an excellent butcher, which was bought by a local farmer last year. So the farmer now has a retail outlet for his free-range meat, without having to become a victim of the supermarket. There's another equally excellent butcher on the edge of the village. They have a sign which looks like something from the 1930s saying "Butchers & Graziers" - never seen the graziers sign before!

The village also has a good greengrocers. He stocks some local produce, but most is, I think, sourced from the wholesale market. He's a Londoner who "gave it all up" and opened a simple village greengrocer. A nice guy - I like to support him when I can, but his prices are not always "keen".

As you may know from my other posts, I buy meat & veg locally and only go to the supermarket (Lidl) every 3 months (it's 12 miles away) for tinned & dry storecupboard goods. Far less stressful!

tru

moggins wrote:

You could always take a healthy walk, pop in for coffee and I could drive you back laden with all your goodies:rotfl:

You might regret that offer...................... :rotfl:

I don't trust myself to leave the house with cash at the mo, just stopped smoking. Give me a week, I might PM you

moggins

Good luck Troo, I've just bought the Allen Carr easy way book and tapes from e-bay and will settle down for a good read next week. I always swore I wouldn't hit 40 and still be smoking

40 is now next week and I am still smoking

tiff

I wouldnt get much shopping done, there are no shops in my street, there is a newsagents on the next street corner. To walk to the nearest shops would be further than the supermarket. I could drive to the local shops but there is no parking.

What I have been doing is going to Tesco and the greengrocers which is a 10 minute drive but has parking at 25p for 2 hours. Also go to Lidl once a month or so.

Ticklemouse

Curry_Queen wrote:

Edit: Actually if you swap one of the butchers for a second bakery, minus the charity and asian shop and add another supermarket it aint far off being the same. Oh and a couple of beauty parlours, 2 hairdressers and few other odd shops!

So what you're really saying CQ is that you don't live in the same street at all :rolleyes:

In my village there is a hairdressers, a post office/newsagents, a pub, an expensive photographers and an expensive (if good) butchers. So it's off to town for me, where they have a large 3 day market. If I go to wher my mum lives, they have excellent butchers, a market and a farmers market.

I don't keep a tally of how much I now spend v. used to spend on food, but I do know Mr Tesco gets a lot less off me now