| daftykins | disaster, the UK acquisition of our co-op supermarkets resulted in all the pretty functional self-serve checkouts having been replaced with disastrous new ones placed so closely together that you have to elbow the next person out the way | 00:19 |
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| penguin42 | oh, they're owned by UK co-op? | 00:21 |
| daftykins | so the rumours go yeah, they weren't before - ours were a totally independant chain where we get 4p back for every £1 we spend | 00:22 |
| daftykins | share accounts, dividends and everything | 00:22 |
| penguin42 | UK Coop is fairly disfunctional | 00:23 |
| daftykins | mmm good source of packaged foods etc though | 00:26 |
| penguin42 | hmm, here their stores are relatively small convenience stores, not full supermarkets, and generally expensive at that | 00:28 |
| daftykins | got a mix here, couple of large ones and then small dotted about | 00:28 |
| penguin42 | they're head quartered here in Manchester, started close to here | 00:30 |
| daftykins | ooh i had no idea | 00:30 |
| daftykins | the C.I. bunch are very directionless, so perhaps it's a match made in heaven! | 00:31 |
| penguin42 | CI? | 00:31 |
| daftykins | channel islands | 00:31 |
| penguin42 | ah | 00:31 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Is most of the stuff from the UK? | 00:33 |
| daftykins | yeah, lots of other brands as well of course - but the sandwich and wrap section is all the UK produce | 00:33 |
| penguin42 | the logistics for CI must be quite tricky; mind you, I guess it's probably not much different from bits of Scotland or Wales | 00:35 |
| daftykins | shelves are very often bare in winter, yip | 00:35 |
| daftykins | just the norm for us | 00:36 |
| penguin42 | I'm too used to being in walking range of lots of different supermarkets and shops | 00:39 |
| penguin42 | I'm about 5m north of Manchester, and within a mile or two there are all the supermarkets (other than Waitrose) | 00:40 |
| daftykins | :) | 00:41 |
| daftykins | Waitrose bought our two largest ones | 00:41 |
| daftykins | one was a Safeway prior | 00:41 |
| penguin42 | nod | 00:44 |
| daftykins | wow there are some snaps from back in the day when it was "Besants" Guernsey, pronounced Bess ants | 00:45 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_Pyramid used to be owned by the the Coop bank (that narrowly avoided going under a few times) | 00:45 |
| daftykins | :D | 00:46 |
| penguin42 | that will be once I can go out again, hopefully test -ve in the next few days..... | 01:02 |
| daftykins | oh nooo the plague got you... first time? | 01:04 |
| penguin42 | yep, tested +ve on Wednesday | 01:07 |
| daftykins | how's it been? the dose i got just made me fatigued, slept a huge amount over a weekend then was back at it | 01:07 |
| penguin42 | I didn't sleep much on Monday/Tuesday night - but thoguht that could be due to being full of paint fumes | 01:08 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I had a day or two of being 2 or 3c hot; not massive; nothing a couple of paracetamol haven't sorted | 01:08 |
| penguin42 | some catarragh, bit of a cough that's not quite sorted itself yet | 01:08 |
| daftykins | not bad! | 01:09 |
| penguin42 | the fact it overlapped with me having some teeth out on Wednesday is kind of interesting; whether I've given it to the dentists will be interesting, but currently my best guess is I picked it up in the dentists the week before when I went to ask some stuff about it | 01:11 |
| daftykins | ah could well be | 01:13 |
| daftykins | i sometimes enjoy sitting in the reception of my nearest practice client here, but i do also ponder what i'm exposing myself to | 01:13 |
| penguin42 | hmm, the River Test | 21:36 |
| davef | Greeting from sunny Punta Cana! | 22:11 |
| zxmpi | salutations from the suburbs of dublin | 22:19 |
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