Nostalgia - Co-op Dividend Number

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Bealman

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Bit of a smudge down the bottom. Finger, maybe? Better crack open the AI  ;D  ;D
Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

Thorpe Parva

My Mother's was 2217. In the 50s I was often sent to the Co-op in Burbage (Leics) so it's always stuck in my memory.

joe cassidy

When I was a teenager I worked for the Co-Op "on the milk" weekends and school holidays.

They paid me £5 for a weekend.

You could get a fair few pints for that in those days :)

Bealman

Vision over visibility. Bono, U2.

cmason

Quote from: Bealman on Today at 07:10:36 AMYeah, I remember those I think Binns in Sunderland or Newcastle had em.

Sad thing - the last Binns was in Darlo and indeed I took Mam shopping there not many years back however it seems it finally close its doors, after 100 year, at the end of 2024  :*( 

The Q

Quote from: Wrinkly1 on Today at 06:38:38 AMMy main memory of our local Co-Op is not the divi number, but having to give your money to the counter staff who then put it into an overhead wire-powered container which "shot" it by spring power to the cashier sealed inside an office. You then waited for your change and receipt to be sent back.
Later, a large department store (Fairfax House) was opened in central Bristol which used pneumatic tubes to send the money instead.
I qualified to service the vacuum systems..
The biggest problems were foreign objects in the tubes.
Coffee grounds at one Tesco's, the tube entrance was next to the waste bin in one coffee shop.
And a tent support in another!! Yep they put up a permanent tent / gazebo by drilling a hole in a car park.. straight through the tube to the garage.

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