Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

[Tilly]

That's why you're not a Premiership manager.

Wot happened to anonymous eh?

Luv, Jose

 

[Lucy]

Looks like we're getting a plastic free shop, about time too https://m.facebook.com/rootslarder

 

[Tilly]

Looks like we're getting a plastic free shop, about time too https://m.facebook.com/rootslarder

Do the ingredients miraculously arrive on lorries made from seasalt?

And if you pay by card, what's card made from?

Even cash ain't cotton anymore

See Gimmick

 

[Cue]

Notice the oversized for sale sign has been taken down for the former fruit and veg place in Mill Street (thatched roof).

Whether that is a case of it had been sold, come down of its own accord or the owners are not happy nobody has purchased ot for 400k I do not know.

Always amusing to see what people think they can get away with as an asking price. Who is going to want probably the biggest logistical headache building in Stafford for £400k? At the age it is, you’d try to put a mains socket in and your drill would come out of the wall covered in poo.

It’s not listed by Millar Sandy is it? They seem to really like over-pricing their listings

 

[Lucy]

Do the ingredients miraculously arrive on lorries made from seasalt?

And if you pay by card, what's card made from?

Even cash ain't cotton anymore

See Gimmick

Just because some things you use are plastic doesn't mean everything has to be.

 

[Tilly]

Just because some things you use are plastic doesn't mean everything has to be.

I agree

But it's quite a big issue

A resource is a resource . We live by fear and we are sold to in fear

If it's not plastic it's something else

And given that the stuff we drop into our recycling bins is actually going into landfill in Poland or being stored in an old shipyard in Hong Kong ready for landfill somewhere else it's not easy to see a clear way to live and exist kindly

We as humans cannot exist without plastic

We as humans are selfish and don't really care about shellfish, otherwise we'd live a different life completely

 

[bunique]

Not going to Hong Kong anymore, they don’t want it!

 

[bunique]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...t-uk-recycling-plants-due-to-china-import-ban

 

[PeterD]

I have visited a non plastic shop in wales, its an excellent idea and it all helps. I think it isnt really about cards made of plastic or how things get there, its because more and more people see how bad it is that 3 courgettes come in a plastic tray and wrapped in plastic, all of it needless. loves sake my wife is starting to influence me.

 

[Gramaisc]

It's not really about banning all plastic, it's about a drive to reduce the profligate use of disposable plastic items.

If we aren't allowed to try to make some small improvements unless we have a complete plan for the total eradication of the entire problem, then we are unlikely to ever make much progress on anything.

 

[Mikinton]

It's not really about banning all plastic, it's about a drive to reduce the profligate use of disposable plastic items.

If we aren't allowed to try to make some small improvements unless we have a complete plan for the total eradication of the entire problem, then we are unlikely to ever make much progress on anything.

#MarginalGains #EveryLittleHelps

 

[Wormella]

Looks like we're getting a plastic free shop, about time too https://m.facebook.com/rootslarder

I'm really excited about this - mainly because we go though masses of lentils and other pulses in the course of our cooking - and this might be helpful. I'm trying to be better in general about single use plastic usage in general - slightly to atone for giving up on using resuable nappies with the boy - but there's always going to balance, and knock on effects to things - realistically if I'm looking at filling up 3 or 4 large glass jars we'd need to drive to roots - where as we can walk to Tesco / Aldi / Home Bargains to restock from there - but they would come bagged in plastic.

Roots launches Sept 26th

 

[Thehooperman]

I have visited a non plastic shop in wales, its an excellent idea and it all helps. I think it isnt really about cards made of plastic or how things get there, its because more and more people see how bad it is that 3 courgettes come in a plastic tray and wrapped in plastic, all of it needless.

Come to think of it courgettes are needless as well, ban them too

Oh and celery!!

 

[Cue]

I'm really excited about this - mainly because we go though masses of lentils and other pulses in the course of our cooking - and this might be helpful. I'm trying to be better in general about single use plastic usage in general - slightly to atone for giving up on using resuable nappies with the boy - but there's always going to balance, and knock on effects to things - realistically if I'm looking at filling up 3 or 4 large glass jars we'd need to drive to roots - where as we can walk to Tesco / Aldi / Home Bargains to restock from there - but they would come bagged in plastic.

Roots launches Sept 26th

Incidentally it looks like they're also selling some stuff you can't find in many shops outside of wholesalers like Booker. Namely, large size refills of various household consumables: https://www.facebook.com/rootslarde...41828.483146138795989/496209004156369/?type=3

 

[kyoto49]

I'm really excited about this - mainly because we go though masses of lentils and other pulses in the course of our cooking - and this might be helpful. I'm trying to be better in general about single use plastic usage in general - slightly to atone for giving up on using resuable nappies with the boy - but there's always going to balance, and knock on effects to things - realistically if I'm looking at filling up 3 or 4 large glass jars we'd need to drive to roots - where as we can walk to Tesco / Aldi / Home Bargains to restock from there - but they would come bagged in plastic.

Roots launches Sept 26th

In contrast this is the kind of place I would make the extra effort to get to, and then I find that this is almost the top of my road. What a time to be alive

 

[Thehooperman]

Just noticed the old newsagents on Parkside is now a doggy grooming shop. Opening hours and contact number below

 

[Tilly]

Who needs journalism when you can have poo bags hanging from branches and interbreeding poodles

Which brings us back full circle

 

[industryarch]

Interesting licensing application

 

[Gareth]

Standard licensing for the big chain cinemas.

 

[industryarch]

Standard licensing for the big chain cinemas.

Dancing and alcohol?