Nostalgia - Co-op Dividend Number

[Newportnobby]

I don't remember all crisps being plain. I do remember when they tasted good enough without salt that the salt came in a little add on bag, rather than being necessary to hide the other nasty burned oily tastes they acquired.

Ah, yes. Smiths Crisps with the little blue bag (no such thing as 'Ready Salted')

Fancy in sandwiches was salad, cheese and ham in one go. Although if you go to the Netherlands you can still enjoy that experience of ham, cheese or both and not much else

Yeah - trips to Holland resulted in mayonnaise on chips
First words I learnt were "Keine mayonnaise"

I didn't half get a funny look last time I talked about tinned grapefruit  though it still exists.

Yeah. I love grapefruit but am not allowed it as it messes with my cardio meds

[Browning 9mm]

remember the strips of stamps to stick into the books

[Newportnobby]

In my teens I had a Saturday job at the main Co-op in Abington Street, Northampton where I worked in the Carpets Department on the 2nd floor.
One Saturday we were called together before opening to be informed some rolls of Co-op stamps had been stolen and given a list of the numbers to sit next to the till. A couple came in, ordered some carpet and paid for it partly with several books of stamps. Yours truly spotted some of the stolen numbers in one of the books so called my Manager who, in turn, called Security. Meanwhile the couple were baffled, upset and annoyed in various turns but were hauled off to the floor below to be grilled under torture (my imagination may have run riot there).
Lo and behold, it transpired that among the stolen stamps were partial rolls and, it seems, the ones they had were not stolen at all but perfectly 'legal'. I felt mortified for the couple concerned but quite proud with the praise from Management and the free dinner I had in the canteen for my observation