Rude Co-op shop staff

[Bonefishblues]

... I get the impression that the Co-op is now suffering from the changes in food shopping during lockdown. The Co-op has just fully converted to the convenience store format and many customers have gone back to the big weekly shop. I usually have our Co-op almost to myself. ...

It seems I am wrong, but I still have our local Co-op largely to myself whenever I go. According to the Business section of today's Daily Telegraph, the Co-op's market share has climbed to 7.4% which is its highest since 2001.

The Co-op's done a very good job over the last 4-5 years. Particularly in terms of its products, which are well up there in quality with anyones.

[PJ520]

The co-op at Llanfairfechan plays loud music to deter guests from spending time in the store

There's a shop in Seattle that plays opera all the time to discourage hangers about.

[reohn2]

The co-op at Llanfairfechan plays loud music to deter guests from spending time in the store

There's a shop in Seattle that plays opera all the time to discourage hangers about.

Doesn't say much for opera does it

[Oldjohnw]

Anyway, as more people will be working from home I guess that there will less bought sandwiches.

[Bonefishblues]

Anyway, as more people will be working from home I guess that there will less bought sandwiches.

Many, many fewer. This is a really specialist area involving wafer-thin margins, a high degree of mechanisation & tooling & relies on huge volumes, so at a stroke that's disappeared, and is unlikely to be back any time soon.

[Cyril Haearn]

The co-op at Llanfairfechan plays loud music to deter guests from spending time in the store

There's a shop in Seattle that plays opera all the time to discourage hangers about.

Doesn't say much for opera does it

Opera, classical music, deters a certain class of patron
I might linger longer in a store if Beethoven or Sibelius were playing

[reohn2]

There's a shop in Seattle that plays opera all the time to discourage hangers about.

Doesn't say much for opera does it

Opera, classical music, deters a certain class of patron
I might linger longer in a store if Beethoven or Sibelius were playing

The class system writ large?

[Cyril Haearn]

Doesn't say much for opera does it

Opera, classical music, deters a certain class of patron
I might linger longer in a store if Beethoven or Sibelius were playing

The class system writ large?

Right again r2, I am culturally upper-middle class. But I do not like spending money

[reohn2]

Opera, classical music, deters a certain class of patron
I might linger longer in a store if Beethoven or Sibelius were playing

The class system writ large?

Right again r2, I am culturally upper-middle class. But I do not like spending money

Much as I thought

[sjs]

There's a shop in Seattle that plays opera all the time to discourage hangers about.

Doesn't say much for opera does it

Opera, classical music, deters a certain class of patron
I might linger longer in a store if Beethoven or Sibelius were playing

In the same way that different subgroups of cyclists like to sneer at each other, there are lots of Beethoven fans who claim to hate Sibelius, and vice versa.

[Oldjohnw]

But where did Beethoven buy his sarnies?

[Cyril Haearn]

Doesn't say much for opera does it

Opera, classical music, deters a certain class of patron
I might linger longer in a store if Beethoven or Sibelius were playing

In the same way that different subgroups of cyclists like to sneer at each other, there are lots of Beethoven fans who claim to hate Sibelius, and vice versa.

Really? I thought classical music fans were tolerant and cultured, I certainly am. One might, at the most, disapprove of the abuse of music for commercial purposes

[reohn2]

...... One might, at the most, disapprove of the abuse of music for commercial purposes

Indo some of the best tnes of my teapenager years have been nicked by souless marketeers and advertising morons,annutter disgrace!

[arnsider]

I often wonder why pianist Mitsuko Uchida eshews Rachmaninoff, but what that has to do with my post is anyones guess.

[David9694]

Our Co-op has Co-op Radio playing. That must be someone’s job, to record that - but I suppose it’s a good way of chatting-up girls -“yeah, I’m a DJ...”