Is the Co-Op open yet ? ( was closed due to flooding ... Again ?)

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Does anyone know if the Co-Op is open today as it was shut this morning due to another flooding .

Thanks in advance .

[Countrlass22]

oh my sorry not been that way yet

[Otto]

still shut...

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Thanks Otto.

I better head to Sainsbury's later then .

[DulwichFox]

It is closed and likely to be for some time...

There have been minor floods at the rear of the store due to a leaky flat roof but the store

is flooded throughout with 1/2" of water right up to the front doors..

DulwichFox

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

You would have thought they would have sorted the roof out to stop a repeat of this happening again ....

[Countrlass22]

Hi have been down Lordship lane saw is closed clearly can see whole store is flooded not just back..

Big job also Thames water are in area few homes flooded net few people asking help from them

Our garden flooded again not drains thankfully not house.

Now sainsburys there is small one top Lordship lane big one dog kennel Hill. Or tesco express peckham rye,goose green.

[intexasatthe moment]

When I walked past a couple of hours ago there were 3 men ( in shirts and ties ,didn't give impression of being a specialist work force ) moving the water around with brooms .

I'd have thought that a more technical approach aimed at maintaining health and hygiene and getting the store reopened asap would have been called for .

[moondancer]

intexasathemoment, the best and most productive technical approach to the flooding at the Coop would be dynamite. Controlled explosion of course. Only taking out the inside of the store, all its overpriced, unpriced, misleading labels, out of date, stale,

sour, off after 3 days, mislabelled, mispriced, out of houmous, limp, presented with indifference bordering on contempt, exasperating store I have ever had the misfortune to enter. And the infamous queues. A management which takes 'laissez faire' to the furthest point of its meaning. Imho of course.

Trading Standards, Health and Safety, Environmental Health, Consumer groups, EDF hardliners, local people entering the premises in good faith, why are we tolerating (and we do) this beyond mediocre store in the centre of our universe.

[KalamityKel]

moondancer Wrote:

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> intexasathemoment, the best and most productive

> technical approach to the flooding at the Coop

> would be dynamite. Controlled explosion of course.

> Only taking out the inside of the store, all its

> overpriced, unpriced, misleading labels, out of

> date, stale,

> sour, off after 3 days, mislabelled, mispriced,

> out of houmous, limp, presented with indifference

> bordering on contempt, exasperating store I have

> ever had the misfortune to enter. And the infamous

> queues. A management which takes 'laissez faire'

> to the furthest point of its meaning. Imho of

> course.

>

> Trading Standards, Health and Safety,

> Environmental Health, Consumer groups, EDF

> hardliners, local people entering the premises in

> good faith, why are we tolerating (and we do) this

> beyond mediocre store in the centre of our

> universe.

And this has what to do with the flooding?

I somehow doubt this is ark related... *shrugs*

[Sue]

moondancer Wrote:

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> intexasathemoment, the best and most productive

> technical approach to the flooding at the Coop

> would be dynamite. Controlled explosion of course.

> Only taking out the inside of the store, all its

> overpriced, unpriced, misleading labels, out of

> date, stale,

> sour, off after 3 days, mislabelled, mispriced,

> out of houmous, limp, presented with indifference

> bordering on contempt, exasperating store I have

> ever had the misfortune to enter. And the infamous

> queues. A management which takes 'laissez faire'

> to the furthest point of its meaning. Imho of

> course.

>

> Trading Standards, Health and Safety,

> Environmental Health, Consumer groups, EDF

> hardliners, local people entering the premises in

> good faith, why are we tolerating (and we do) this

> beyond mediocre store in the centre of our

> universe.

i use the Co-op quite frequently and I haven't experienced any of that.

In particular, I find the staff lovely.

And the queues are no worse than in any other supermarket.

[Horsebox]

moondancer Wrote:

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> out of houmous

Oh, the humanity!

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Is it open then ?

[DulwichFox]

I agree with moondancer..

Many items not clearly price marked. Fish marked as per kilo and not actual clearly priced by weight.

Many food items passed Eat by date. Cheese. Should not be on sale

Many food items reached Eat before date. reduced.

Items with damaged packaging. Dented tins which should NOT be on sale.

Freezers constantly breaking down.

Hard 'baked in store' style bread. Stale. Wrongly marked Rye Bloomer turned out as tomato bread. Yuk.

Long queues with no staff on tills.

Store prone to flooding due to flat roof at rear of store..

Store has a depressed ambience.

Staff are ok but always look p'd off. I remember the cheerful staff at Iceland as a comparison.

DulwichFox

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Maybe when Marks finally arrives it will take most of the Co-Op's business, thus they will have to shut down and a better retailer can move in , spruce the place up and please us locals but as it is local most of us endure it.

[reetpetite]

Yes it is open .

[se22cat]

Went in there around 4pm, several sections of floor still felt damp, they had the roof heaters on full blast, lots of food in the chilled cabinets looked misty. Huge queues at the tills. I walked out, didn't feel like getting food poisoning from there again.

[dbboy]

I'm really fussy about bread, by chance I found the in store baked bread in the Forest Hill Road Co-op but more than often they are out of stock because I suspect it comes frozen, goes into the oven and gets basked,so have to use Lordship Lane and it's the same quality every time. The bread is hard because it's the crust which is supposed to be hard, if you cut a slice the bread is as it should be. Have always found their in store baked bread to be really good. Co-op seem to be able to consistently bake good bread in store. If you want soft squichy bread suggest buying it from Tesco or Asda.

[civilservant]

dbboy Wrote:

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> Have always found their in store baked

> bread to be really good. Co-op seem to be able to

> consistently bake good bread in store.

agree - the Co-op baguettes are particularly good