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    Frances, this has been my experience of Tesco and Asda since moving south a few years ago. As I've said before, what Tesco are good at is making the weekly shop less of a chore. They might have their skeletons but the average family dont shop with their conscience, all they want is a retailer who gives them good value and you don't come out of the shop feeling like you've done 10 rounds with Tyson Anyone remember the old co-op at Christmas times
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    Just move everyone to Lerwick, council wouldn't needs vans, ferries or roads. Now that would be a serious saving
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    I completely agree with Stuart Hill, I think Shetland should regain it's independence. First thing the local parliment should do is to then refuse Stuart Hills visa application and deport him back to whence he came. He'd be the first of many - is it just me or does anyone else feel Shetland seems to be a magnet for eccentrics (okay, nutters)
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    Ramsie, maybe you've got your evidence into this but my personal experience is different to yours. Tesco opened a new store in Ellon last year and the prices there are the same as the prices at their Inverurie and Aberdeen stores. There is an existing Somerfield in Ellon which is still trading. If you shop online with Tesco the prices online are the same as they are in the stores. I'm not pro Tesco, as I've said before on this thread, but I do believe in folk being given the freedom to shop where they want and make their own choices. We shop between Asda, Tesco and a local Coop, wherever is most convient.
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    While we're on about tourists and shopping... At least when Tesco's open the tourists who arrive on liners on a Wednesday will have somewhere to shop. A few years ago it took the tourist board to go around the 'local' tourist type shops virtually begging them to open for the liners that came in - make of that what you will
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    Been there, done that. Boots tried for 20 years to get a shop in Lerwick, stopped, I believe by the lerwick retailers mafia.
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    Someone from Tesco's reading this forum, get real. I'm not pro-Tesco but I do believe in giving people the chance to choose where they want to spend their money. If as you say, the 'general public' are well aware of Tesco's behaviour then presumably the store will fail pretty quickly. Just how many of the contributors on here actually do the weekly shop ith children in tow? For the average family who are looking to make the weekly shop a bit more bearable, maybe find something different or save a bit of money Tesco's will be a welcome addition to the town retailers. p.s. keep this to yourselves chaps, but apparently there's something called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T where you can buy things without leaving the house - like I said, keep it to yourselves though, if word gets out there'll be riots in Shetland
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    I thought this too, everyone who seems to have a different opinion to him is either stupid or an idiot Personally anyone who's prepared to open a business in a remote community like Unst and make a success of it is far from stupid in my book.
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    LOL, just noticed your avatar after I posted - clearly I was right
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    So far on this thread The Coop is going to 'die' Leslies and Lochside stores will close All independant stores around Shetland will close in 6 to 12 months Tesco have destroyed EVERY town they've ever opened a store in Do you guys believe the world is going to end shortly in some sort of huge fireball? Given the feelings on here presumably someone from here will be organising a protest with placards when Tesco opens it's doors?
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    MJ, if I'm buying anything I'll try to get it online to save me traipsing to the shops. Before I buy anything online I'll check the following for deals, tips, discount or free p&p codes. http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/index.html http://www.hotukdeals.com/ http://offeroftheday.co.uk/index.asp These sites have saved me loads of cash. And then I'll factor in the cashback buying through http://www.quidco.com You need to be a member (easy to sign up) and you get between 2 to 20% cashback. It's very easy to use and it pays the money back into your bank account. And it's very easy to find discount codes for Tesco home delivery, usually about 10% - assuming Tesco will give home delivery a go in Shetland.
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    http://shetlopedia.com/Clive%27s_Record_Shop You really must get out more
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    Have you ever shopped in the co-op in Lerwick? You can watch your fresh items go out of date while you queue - even Sainsbury is quicker at checkout than the co-op in Lerwick Danestone isn't that bad but I tend to shop in either the Inverurie or Ellon Tesco or the Dyce Asda. Dyce Asda is probably the friendliest supermarket I've used, very well integrated in the local community. Because Dyce doesn't have a town centre the Asda tends to be the community focal point. King Street tesco is student territory - why would I want to go there
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    No you're not - I lived in Shetland for the first 40 years of my life and moved South 3 years ago. I shop at Tesco, Asda or whoever makes my shopping easier or cheaper. I work hard to earn a decent living and see shopping as a chore, I use Tesco for convenience, they very rarely have empty shelves, their fresh produce is actually fresh, their home delivery is excellent and as long as you're smart you'll save money. Some of the 'retail terrorists':roll: in here clearly have a problem with progress and are happy to live in a 'picture postcard' past where the local retailers called all the shots - like closing every Wednesday and deciding who could and couldn't open a store in Lerwick. Even when Liners arrived on a Wednesday in Lerwick packed with tourists none of the Lerwick shops bothered opening - Harrys and Frank Williamsons are two shops who have been prepared to adapt to changing society we live in and have both been quite successful. For your typical family shopper they'll see Tesco as a convient place to do their shopping offering additional choice and services to make the drudgery of shopping easier - like it or lump it that's what most folks want. From experience, I reckon you could do your entire shop in Tesco and get through the checkout, pay, and be heading home in the time it takes you to queue and pay for you shopping in the co-op
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    Well, you have to keep up long standing traditions, don't you. That one was going strong in 1979, and was by no means new then. Sports day(s) were in the Gilbertson though, so nipping back to the Knab for a pint would have been a little out of the question. Nipping out the back to Hayfield, or the Coop for a kerry-oot was prevented by the Gestapo....ooopsss....supervising staff, they had already posted guards. I can't remember if it was 1978 or 1979 when the sports day went horribly wrong. The weather was fantastic and half the school were up on the rocks in the Gibby smoking cigars and drinking . The teachers did a pincer movement and attacked up the paths at either end. Some folks were caught and there was someone expelled. Liptons was the big source of most of the drink as some of the bairns worked there. Our drink came from RC Robertsons as the chap who ran the shop thought it was legal to sell cider to 14 year olds (guess it was 78 then). This was the last year that the whole school attended the sports day, after this you had to compete to get the day away from the school. Going home from school with a hangover
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    If you've ever spent any time recently in the company of a group of 14-16 year olds you'll realise that the police are there to protect the public not the other way round When I was at the AHS the school sports day was a huge pi55 up - a bar attached to the school would have made a mint
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    Absolute nonsense, Meldrum Academy was opened 6 years ago, capacity of 1200 pupils and the school has a cafe open to the public, it also houses the local community library and the police station. My only gripe with Mareel is the funding from the CT - and the long term potential this has to further drain the coffers when it's realised the attendance estimates and income was a bit on the optimistic side. Like I said before, Shetland already has a public hall facility for every 100 inhabitants, most of which are very under utilised much of the time. Why not build Mareel as an extension to the new Tesco - now there's a good idea - maybe stick a few windmills in the car park and keep everyone happy.
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    Unlikely it'll cause fields to shutdown - News programmes are reporting this in a bit of a sensationalist manner the refinery only takes 200kbbl/day from the FPS system, the other 600kbbl/day is shipped from Hound Point in the Firth of Forth. Just means a rejig of the shipping programme. Will mean a lot of gas will be flared @ the processing plant though
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    I disagree with that. There are currently over £250M of oil funds in reserve and with correct financial management it can remain at that level and even grow. Yes some years we'll lose a few million in the stock market, other years it will grow a few million. When the oil has stopped completely there are just a few simple things we can do to retain the money, for example: Cut increases in public sector salaries/expenses; Stop the Christmas bonus; Encourage private investment in what are seen as public services, eg care homes; Close a number of schools; Loan from the bank for capital projects. Another way to retain funds is by seeking more autonomy. An interesting post is this one re Isle of Mann: http://www.shetlink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3694 They have managed to build up their own reserve fund without any oil or windfarms! So oil isn't everything. This is what I've been harking on about on the Mareel and Windmill threads - there is enough cash in the CT but only if we stop robbing it to cover revenue shortfall for the council and be very careful about the projects funded from the CT. I don't believe Mareel will be self financing in any number of years let alone 3. Christmas bonus should continue but based on means testing - we have some very wealthy pensioners to whom £200 odd wouldn't make much difference. Council salaries are what they are for the public sector - what we need to do is to reduce the sheer number of council funded posts back to a level comparable with the other scottish councils. Close some schools - yes, from the previous shortlist there are some really obvious candidates, if we ever get councillors with enough balls to follow this through. Loans for capital projects - loans being an odd choice of word here. Just how much is ever returned from the CT grants - most of the big projects seem to collapse without ever returning anything.
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    Yes I was around before the mid 70's - please enlighten me, what grief has Sullom brought? I didn't mean to suggest that the oil companies shouldn't pay - merely why should they be expected to fund our incompetence to invest. It's a bit like spending your complete wage by the middle of the month and demanding the bank give you some more money to cover to the end of the month.
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    Why should the Oil Companies be expected to prop up the local economy - they've provided plenty cash over the last 30 years only for it to be frittered away through poor inward investment. I point back to the study where the return on £125 million invested from the charitable trust was something itro £4 or £5 million. Asking for more cash isn't going to solve the problem here.
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    Well done Carlos, summed up where I believe things are for the Islands. I don't see the future being 'stagnation or growth', more of a need to reduce to sustainable level. For me the biggest untapped natural resouce in Shetland is tourism, in comparison to Orkney we really are missing a trick - reason being that we've had easier well paid employment elsewhere. Don't agree? - well consider the Clickimin Broch, fantastic attaction for tourists, no visitor centre and the tourists getting off the buses to visist have to dodge the traffic on the main road. Cost of travel to and from Shetland is still a major hurdle though.
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    The bloating isn't alleged, I'll find the figures reported but from memory it was something like - the SIC was either 16 or 18%% of the population empolyed by the council, Orkney council was 14%, Western Isles was 11% and the Scottish average was 8% Wouldn't have been an Oil Industry consultant from Inverness would it? If it's who I'm thinking then they couldn't predict what the day after tomorrow is... Bottom line for the windmills is do the Shetland Population want them - after all the Charitable trust belongs to them. We need a real poll on this, not someone stood in Commercial Street for a couple of hours with a clipboard If the majority are in favour I'll happily go along with the project - after all it is a democracy we live in, isn't it
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    Ok then, lets. Nuclear power doesn't scare me. Edit: Seriously though, if there are no jobs there will be no incomers and more to the point, the population will fall. What do you propose? Have you actually got anything serious to add to the debate other than "don't build the windfarm"? I really can't believe the mod edits on this forum - the mods are either deeply religous or the server is hosted somewhere in communist China (maybe if I mention the word 'Tibet', the whole thread will disappear?) Anyhow, my serious comments on the windmill debate were on the Mareel thread - you dragged me over here I said over there that I personally don't believe the CT can sustain the level of capital expenditure projects being kicked around at the moment - windmills being one - and one which has questionable support (just remember the CT belongs to the entire population of Shetland) and from recent events in the Western Isles is pretty high risk.
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    You want jobs, (*** mod ***) lets build a nuclear p/stn. (*** Mod - language ***)
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