Books and shopping

[callmemadam]

Do you play the game of 'which book is currently most commonly found in charity shops'? I looked in a few shops yesterday and the answer is: anything by Dave Pelzer. Also Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. No doubt many people, like me, bought and then never read it.

Remember the knitted Royal Wedding? The Book People have the knitting book for £3.99. Still with wedding fever, The Book Depository offers me this morning a free eBook: The Royal Wedding for Dummies. Where are the tea towels?

In other news on the high street: our lovely hardware shop where you could buy thingamyjigs has become a Surplus Store; two new charity shops have opened. So much for the Waitrose factor, which was supposed to increase the town's prosperity.

Comments

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

It's too early yet to assess the effect of Co-op becoming Waitrose here - but it's always packed, whereas the Co-op was often half-empty, and there are a lot of mainland registration numbers in the car park
I use it mostly for the loos, and quite a few people use it for the cafeteria.
Whether people who cross the bridge to reach it go further into the island is a question. - it really annoys me that they don't stock island cheese or meat - it's all from the mainkand

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

We had Safeway, which became Morrisons, which became Somerfield and then the Co-op. Each change was a downward one. Shopping in the Co-op is not a happy experience and I've several times walked out because of poor service.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Waitrose took over the Bridge Co-op when Somerfields amalgamated with the Co-op at lLanfarpg. Holyhead has Morrisons and Tesco and the Co-op, but the nearest Waitrose is in England - so people travel quite long distances
i agree that Co-op staff training tends to be a bit slack, but i knew most of the people who worked there - and most of them now work for Waitrose