Wheesht Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Prefer the Coop but I wish I had the time and will to shop more at the peerie local shops, maybe through time the pendulum will swing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Turrifield is living in a fools paradise if he thinks a working mum with a full time job has the time to shop at various independent stores and get fruit/veg delivered etc. Re the Co-op/Somerfield - I say knock 'em both down and give us a big Asda or Tesco instead. They don't have to necessarily do people out of business by selling petrol, clothes, electrics etc (although my personal view is that would be spendid). It would just give us more variety in terms of the food we eat, and able us to shop in wider, clean isles (i.e not tripping over excess cardboard stands in the isles) or having to maneovre around the various shelf stackers who make no attempt to get out of the way of shoppers! Plus, if you knock either the Co-op/Somerfield down in favour for one bigger store, this would give much needed land in terms of the Housing shortage in Lerwick, but hey thats a different post I'm sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Turrifield is living in a fools paradise if he thinks a working mum with a full time job has the time to shop at various independent stores and get fruit/veg delivered etc. Re the Co-op/Somerfield - I say knock 'em both down and give us a big Asda or Tesco instead. They don't have to necessarily do people out of business by selling petrol, clothes, electrics etc (although my personal view is that would be spendid). It would just give us more variety in terms of the food we eat, and able us to shop in wider, clean isles (i.e not tripping over excess cardboard stands in the isles) or having to maneovre around the various shelf stackers who make no attempt to get out of the way of shoppers! Plus, if you knock either the Co-op/Somerfield down in favour for one bigger store, this would give much needed land in terms of the Housing shortage in Lerwick, but hey thats a different post I'm sure! On the housing issue - Foo'.. more people in Lerwick would make for a bigger request for somewhere like a supermarket. Besides... i'm up for 'knocking' down the Gilberson to build houses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 .........(i.e not tripping over excess cardboard stands in the isles) ....... Aaargh - pet hate. It just makes me less inclined to look down that aisle or at the goods nearby, and more inclined to "accidently" nudge it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkstarIII Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 I will be shopping in somerfield.... although it would be good if they built an asdas or a tescos.... shetland is hardly short of land... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 I will be shopping in somerfield.... although it would be good if they built an asdas or a tescos.... shetland is hardly short of land... It's a little short on people though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 I would quite happily scrap the coop and Sommerfields for an Asda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 The only bad thing about Asda is it's bollox quality vegetables. Though the supermarket vegetables in Shetland are that anyhow by all accounts so it'd be no great difference, no! Asda / Walmart do do some pretty decent deals! Do a weeks shop there and then the same in another supermarket and you're amazed at the saving! Then go to Marks & Sparks, get to the till, and run away! 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 I'd avoid giving Asda\Walmart any of my money as they're probably the least ethical mega-chain in the world. So I hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkstarIII Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Yeah marks and spencers have gorgeous food... but alas really really expensive.. well some of their food is.. they have these wee burger things that are really nice made with corned beef... lol.. I used to bypass M&S but am finding that they really do have decent stuff.. especially clothes and smellies...and their tanning products are great... I have a whole suitcase full! hahahaha.. WEEEEEL.. I wont be back there for a good six months to a year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Given the choice though I would rather have an M&S lunch than a dinner out in Shetland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marjolein Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 In an ideal world.... I would love to see shops selling foods instead of selling it all in packaging things that could be sold... like if you wanted to buy flour you would take along your flour jar from home and pour some right in using a fancy scale system. It would be lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimdal Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 That's how it used to be ! Bins of flour and sugar, butter came in barrels, and cheese was a big round block about 18" across and they cut off a bit, as big as you wanted, with a wire. Like that up to the late 1950's I mind it fine ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 In an ideal world.... I would love to see shops selling foods instead of selling it all in packaging things that could be sold... like if you wanted to buy flour you would take along your flour jar from home and pour some right in using a fancy scale system. It would be lovely. You'd best start by rolling back some of the Food Hygeine Regs. dumped indiscriminately on all and sundry by Brussels over the last 33 or so years to have a hope in getting that back. Pre-73 pretty much everything sat around in sundry wooden boxes, crates, barrels, paper bags and under a muslin cloot in shops, as it had done from since Noah was a boy and longer, and nobody ever seemed to get a case or serious gut rot as a result, everyone used common sense and intelligence when handling and using food. Now we live in a plastic wrapped, pre-packaged, "idiot proofed" hell, the chemicals in that plastic, IMHO, are probably slowly poisioning us, and the weird bugs in food have never been worse. Progress?!? .....B*****ks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 There are still shops that sell some of these things from tubs in the shop, but they are few and far between. There is still a shop where I come from that sells sugar, dried fruit, flour, cake mix and all manner of other things loose from tubs from which you can help yourself. Back in my childhood we had a cupboard in the kitchen which had a small cupboard with a steel lining in it. This would keep whatever we wanted cool. In those days people would shop daily for most of their food. Its the fact that people want their food to last forever that starts to cause problems. Don't get me started on Europe, bananas from Crete too small and bent to be sold in Europe, despite the fact that they taste great, sausages not this and chocolate not that. It has just got to a ridiculous state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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