The retailer needs to do more than pay lip service to the cost of living crisis
A few years back, when it still had some larger supermarkets maybe, but these days its focus is on convenience stores, mostly on people's doorsteps.Read more: Shoppers say they 'won't buy Heinz ever again' after trying supermarket's 57p soup
None of it was particularly impressive on the price front. The 50p price tag on the beans wasn't too bad compared with usual prices, but still around 20p dearer than you can get them elsewhere. Trips to two other Co-op stores - one attached to a petrol station in Wigan and another in Walkden, Salford - proved pretty fruitless too, the only additions being some coffee, tuna flakes, spaghetti and curry sauce.
What annoyed me most though was the cost of the other products that were available - some of which were quite extortionate. Like £3.70 for a 350g pack of wafer thin ham, £4.75 for a 500g tub of Anchor spreadable and £3.50 for a 900ml Tropicana. It no doubt had more customers than ever during the pandemic when everyone was restricted to how far they could go and I'm sure I wasn't the only one grateful for its stores and staff.
It says that around 1,000 of its 2,500 convenience stores 'have around 18 Honest Value lines available for customers to purchase in store' and it has 'prioritised the range in communities that have been greatly impacted by the cost of living crisis'.
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