The Co-op - they issued trading stamps to share out the divi - in competition with green shield trading stamps. The green shield catalogue stores are now Argos. They are expensive - but notice they are now promoting themselves as 'little and often' through smaller local stores - perhaps a good move as Morrisons and Tesco's are shutting their small stores down.
Got a feeling the Co Op was around a long time before green shield stamps. You can buy milk in Morrisons at 23p extra for 4 pints, the 23p goes direct to farmers, so they say. Trouble is, I only use max. 2 pints a week.
Our village shop is a Co-op. It opens from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. 365 days a year. Its prices are slightly higher than the supermarkets but it's convenient and it's very busy. They have three tills with at least two of them operating most of the day and three at the busiest times.
But not just UK farmers as most of that money goes to non-Bitish farmers in the rest of the EU: http://www.fwi.co.uk/news/morrisons-slammed-over-misleading-milk+for-farmers.htm "But although the Milk for Farmers brand is packaged with an image of the Union flag, the extra money raised through sales is spread across the 13,500 European dairy farmers in the Arla co-operative, which supplies Morrisons with its milk. About 3,000 of these Arla suppliers are British dairy farmers – so less than one-third of the estimated £5m made from sales of the premium milk this year will go directly to British dairy farmers"
Glad I've not bothered to buy it then @Scrungee, just shows how the public get duped. Where did you get the info?
Now come on, have you ever heard a farmer moan? Its too hot, its too dry, its too cold, its too wet, the subsidy aint right, the price is too low. But do they moan? ..........................
You forgot the bit where he tells you how skint he is as he climbs into his sixty five grand Range Rover!
