Musings from the Merse
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Cooped Up
Its a great relief to lose our dependence on the 14 mile round trip to Sir Morrisons and replace it with a 14 minute return journey to the Coop via a vegetable shop, two bakeries, a delicatessen, a hardware store, an electronic goods emporium, several convenience spots, three takeaways, a brilliant Chemist, two newsagents, a large post office with several watering holes and coffee places to break the tedium, both coming and going. The Coop is not that exhaustive but it is certainly not exhausting-a three person check out queue is unusual, most people seem to just have hand baskets to pay for and alright, there are not 27 different types of Brown Sauce, but you can generally find what you need, if not entirely what you want. Lots of organic stuff and a dearth of 'customer announcements' as are the bane of Sir M's.
And no caravanners.
I was extolling the virtues of Duns shopping to a fellow incomer, but with browner knees, having moved here from Embra 15 years ago.(So he is up to the 'D' in Dinger)
'Couldn't agree less' he said. 'Shops are rubbish. Thank goodness for on line shopping. Weekly order to Tescos, bring it around, help us unpack and it is all very reasonable'
'But what can't you get in Duns that you really need?' I enquired
'You mentioned it!
27 varieties of Brown Sauce'
( Sorry no image -I tried Flickr with the following result:
"We couldn't find any results matching Duns and Co-op.
Would you like to try a search for farm, switzerland, zurich, chicken or chickens instead?"
No thanks)
AS the Arabs would say : الكبيرة للتسوق في الجمعية التعاونيه*
* (rough translation) Great marketing in the Co-operative Society-Google translation)
Its a great relief to lose our dependence on the 14 mile round trip to Sir Morrisons and replace it with a 14 minute return journey to the Coop via a vegetable shop, two bakeries, a delicatessen, a hardware store, an electronic goods emporium, several convenience spots, three takeaways, a brilliant Chemist, two newsagents, a large post office with several watering holes and coffee places to break the tedium, both coming and going. The Coop is not that exhaustive but it is certainly not exhausting-a three person check out queue is unusual, most people seem to just have hand baskets to pay for and alright, there are not 27 different types of Brown Sauce, but you can generally find what you need, if not entirely what you want. Lots of organic stuff and a dearth of 'customer announcements' as are the bane of Sir M's.
And no caravanners.
I was extolling the virtues of Duns shopping to a fellow incomer, but with browner knees, having moved here from Embra 15 years ago.(So he is up to the 'D' in Dinger)
'Couldn't agree less' he said. 'Shops are rubbish. Thank goodness for on line shopping. Weekly order to Tescos, bring it around, help us unpack and it is all very reasonable'
'But what can't you get in Duns that you really need?' I enquired
'You mentioned it!
27 varieties of Brown Sauce'
( Sorry no image -I tried Flickr with the following result:
"We couldn't find any results matching Duns and Co-op.
Would you like to try a search for farm, switzerland, zurich, chicken or chickens instead?"
No thanks)
AS the Arabs would say : الكبيرة للتسوق في الجمعية التعاونيه*
* (rough translation) Great marketing in the Co-operative Society-Google translation)
Labels: Duns, Shopping, Sir Morrison's, The Coop
Comments:
When we moved here we were told that you could purchase everything you needed in Duns, but finding it may be difficult.
Finding the dry cleaning service in the candy store was a surprise.
Finding the dry cleaning service in the candy store was a surprise.
A Candy Store? How unexpected in Scotland as opposed to the American Mid-West! The dry cleaning is I think available in one of the newsagents-the one that sells lots of sweets.
I like the combination of fish and deli goods with pet paraphernalia. I was concerned that the new(ish) owner might discontinue the latter, but it obviously works so he hasn't fixed it.
Don't agree with your appreciation of the Coop though; I'm sick of aisles being full of cages of food and yet the shelves are strangely empty.
Don't agree with your appreciation of the Coop though; I'm sick of aisles being full of cages of food and yet the shelves are strangely empty.
# posted by 
: 4:40 PM
: 4:40 PM
Yes, the Coop has its deficiencies but when you compare its friendliness and indeed emptiness with the seething rabble in Sir Morrison's its bliss on stilts
Things have moved on a whole lot since we moved to the area ten years ago. Finding plain yoghurt was the culinary equivalent of the search for the holy grail.
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