Saturday, May 20, 2006

GoOd oLd-fAsHiOnEd VaLuEs

The Codfathers: “Devoted to providing fresh produce direct to your door”.
This business has been started recently by two nice young lads, Kyle & Scott ~ they went to school with my son and daughter. I’ve been ordering with them now for a couple of weeks and their stuff is really good. I especially like the return to old-fashioned values ~ customer satisfaction, neatly dressed appearance, polite manners, detailed hand written receipts and honest sales. The other day for the first time the boys had forgotten something on the list ~ l gave them a call and they said that they would bring it over on the ferry the next day. Sure enough Kyle showed up with 3lb of fresh Scottish tomatoes and extra carrots ~ he would not take any payment for them either! You never hear of this type of service anymore and so l am glad to support the lads in their endeavour.
Support local shops instead of the large supermarkets who exploit and dominate. Don't be fooled by the tactics - the buy one now get one free scam. All they do is tell the suppliers that is what they have to give them if they want to keep the contract. Look at how they put Fair Trade products on the shelf and their own Fair Trade brand at a lower price next to them.
Next time you buy a cheap t-shirt at Asda thank the poverty stricken Asian who earned virtually nothing for making it! I'd better stop now or l'll blow.

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