Chango - New local gem alert!

[Sue]

42 minutes ago, HeadNun said:

Not only can he turn olive oil into Vermouth, but also water into a wine. A true miracle worker. 

I wouldn't say a wine shop sells a wide variety of things - and there are two right next to each other.

According to what I can see online, Dynamic Vines and Cave de Bruno sell totally different kinds of wine to each other. 

Dynamic Vines  "work with independent winemakers who produce outstanding wine using sustainable practices in the vineyard and minimal intervention in the cellar". 

Cave de Bruno specialises in French wines and spirits from small independent producers.

So two different USPs, and no doubt two different but overlapping customer bases who can afford these wines.

Probably different again to the people mainly  shopping for wine at Majestic or the Co op.

On the other hand, the two empanada shops appear on the face of it to be selling virtually identical products.

But time will tell, won't it? Let's see how they are both doing in - say - a couple of years' time.

Impossible, of course, to compare that with how they would have done if there had been only one of them.

I just feel more  sorry for the original one than for  the one which can apparently already afford to have a number of shops in places like Mayfair and Highgate.

I'm tempted to buy something there every week, and I don't even like that kind of pastry 🤣

Edited 13 hours ago by Sue

[Earl Aelfheah]

I like empanadas. I don't think Chango is a massive chain - it's got a few stores all in London I believe (stand to be corrected if I've got that wrong). I don't see a problem with them opening on the Lane personally. I really like Chacarero, but that doesn't mean that they should be immune from competition - if they're successful and open a couple more stores, are we then meant to stop supporting them for being a 'chain'? 

That opening post does sound a lot like marketing spiel though. Is the OP perhaps connected to the new business I wonder?

[Sue]

28 minutes ago, Earl Aelfheah said:

I like empanadas. I don't think Chango is a massive chain - it's got a few stores all in London I believe (stand to be corrected if I've got that wrong). I don't see a problem with them opening on the Lane personally. I really like Chacarero, but that doesn't mean that they should be immune from competition - if they're successful and open a couple more stores, are we then meant to stop supporting them for being a 'chain'? 

That opening post does sound a lot like marketing spiel though. Is the OP perhaps connected to the new business I wonder?

A Google search brought up eleven Chango  branches, although they don't all seem to be listed on their website.

In the order they came up:

East Dulwich, Clapham Common, Mayfair, Wandsworth, City of London, Wimbledon,  Parsons Green, Kensington, Highgate, Richmond, Hampstead.

I think it is the positioning of this new branch that has mostly got to me.

I accept that they would have to go for where a space became vacant, but Lordship Lane is pretty long, even just the part with shops in,  and choosing to  open a stone's throw away from Chacarero seems mean, to say the least.

I wonder if they have made contact with Chacarero. It would be nice to think they had (in a friendly way, obviously!)

As regards the apparent  marketing spiel, at least one of the online reviewers also refers to a Chango branch (the Parsons Green one in this case) as a "gem".

Probably just coincidence and a word in common use to describe such places. I wouldn't know. I'm ancient 🤣

Edited 12 hours ago by Sue
Typo

[jazzer]

Try Gentrification, those with more money than sense who constantly want something different, when pie and mash isn't good enough for them.  "Argentinian Cornish pasties" give3 me a proper Cornish pastie any day of the week, at least I'd be supporting something traditionally British.  

ps. tin hat at the ready........................🤣

[Angelina]

why not have a pasty shop - we could have Cornish pasties, Jamaican patties, empanadas from all the different regions....

I like all three. 

I'm still going to support the Chacarero family business, as I don't support chains, just as I don't buy anything from Gail's, Nero, Starbucks etc.

[Insuflo]

7 hours ago, Angelina said:

why not have a pasty shop - we could have Cornish pasties, Jamaican patties, empanadas from all the different regions....

I like all three. 

That would be a corniche market. Ahem.