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As soon as it starts snowing, you'll be the second to know.


As for the Co-op, I don't know. Off the top of my head - they could do away with the cereals aisle and install a single bowling lane. Wednesday night could be 'Grindr Night' - with 2 for 1 on whole chickens. A terrifying clown out front after school doing free face-painting would be a hit with the kids.

*Bob* Wrote:

> Yeah I went in there yesterday, enticed by the 'no

> queues' and only needing a few things - but found

> it a slightly 'Soviet' shopping experience - so

> M&S it was.


For me the 'Soviet' shopping experience was memorable if rather surreal. Went (of course in the snow, and at -25C to the state record shop in Moscow (this is just before the soviet system disintegrated). Not a single CD on display, just empty shelves (as with all the other shops).


However .... you just had to show either a few dollar bills or some Marlborough ciggies (nothing else would do) and back doors would miraculously open. No other way of acquiring the "Ministry of Culture Orchestra's" complete collection of Shostakovitch's symphonies for $15 :-).


What may lie behind the empty shelves at the co-op, who knows?

Louisa Wrote:

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How long before the

> Waitrose rumours start again at pace?


I think Waitrose have missed the boat - I was not particularly an M&S fan but I think they have got the offering correct for East Dulwich. I think more interesting would be if Aldi took over The Co-op premises.

Louisa Wrote:

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> So far the wine has impressed, if the layout is

> somewhat shoddy, in the new Marks. The food

> however, leaves a lot to be desired.

>




What do you find wrong with the food?


Everything I have had from there so far has been excellent.

Sue Wrote:

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> Louisa Wrote:

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> -----

>

> > So far the wine has impressed, if the layout

> is

> > somewhat shoddy, in the new Marks. The food

> > however, leaves a lot to be desired.

> >

>

>

>

> What do you find wrong with the food?

>

> Everything I have had from there so far has been

> excellent.


The food is far too bourgeois. The wine, however, has verifiable working class origins.....


Time for a Yellow Card, surely??

Mango was pre-cut and packaged.

I baulked at the price but was out with my daughter and it was that or something else.


It was actually very very nice and while I wouldn't buy it very often, I would probably buy it again....


CONvenience, indeed.

Sue Wrote:

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> Louisa Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

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>

> > So far the wine has impressed, if the layout

> is

> > somewhat shoddy, in the new Marks. The food

> > however, leaves a lot to be desired.

> >

>

>

>

> What do you find wrong with the food?

>

> Everything I have had from there so far has been

> excellent.


Overpriced ready meals. Don't quite understand why anyone would pay over the odds for food you can get elsewhere for those prices. I will concede on the iced lemon drizzle cake however, very nice.


Louisa.

ED - NAGAIUTB Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> > Louisa Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> >

> > > So far the wine has impressed, if the layout

> > is

> > > somewhat shoddy, in the new Marks. The food

> > > however, leaves a lot to be desired.

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> > What do you find wrong with the food?

> >

> > Everything I have had from there so far has

> been

> > excellent.

>

> The food is far too bourgeois. The wine, however,

> has verifiable working class origins.....

>

> Time for a Yellow Card, surely??


It certainly is time for a yellow card, notably for you, for your unashamed goading.


Louisa.

Louisa Wrote:


>

> Overpriced ready meals. Don't quite understand why

> anyone would pay over the odds for food you can

> get elsewhere for those prices. I will concede on

> the iced lemon drizzle cake however, very nice.

>

> Louisa.


Louisa Wrote:

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> Cut wholemeal loaf (thick sliced) M&S 89p Co-op

> 75p (Sainsburys and Lidl 45p)

>

> Personally, I've tried all of them. I would say

> the Marks version is head and shoulder the best,

> but lidl really isn't far behind (and basically

> half the price).

>


I think you've answered your own question.

No I haven't answered my own question. I went on to make the point the lidl equivalent was almost identical for half the price available at marks. A ready meal and bread are hardly comparable anyway. A heavily processed salt filled ready meal is going to be the same whether it's from Iceland or M&S, it's the price that's the key difference.


Louisa.

For the umpteenth time, if you don't like M&S food, you're not under a legal obligation to shop there.


Some people moaned incessantly when the new cinema opened. As we are sadly aware, some people have moaned incessantly about the new M&S. No doubt if Waitrose opened in LL, people would moan about that as well.

Zebedee Tring Wrote:

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> For the umpteenth time, if you don't like M&S

> food, you're not under a legal obligation to shop

> there.

>

> Some people moaned incessantly when the new cinema

> opened. As we are sadly aware, some people have

> moaned incessantly about the new M&S. No doubt if

> Waitrose opened in LL, people would moan about

> that as well.


In the main people have not moaned about the coming of M&S..


People have moaned about the loss of Iceland.


That's two different things..


DulwichFox

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