Shopping has certainly changed from my younger days. I can vaguely remember the co-op having butter in thin wooden barrels and weighing out things like currants and flour from sacks. In one department store the shop assistant put your money in a tube in it went overhead on wires to a central office where they put your change in and it came whizzing back.
Changing the subject, our local council has hired a firm to ring people up who are claiming a discount on their Council Tax as they are the single occupant in their property. This firm is using voice analyst software to see if they are lying and wrongly claiming the discount. Big Brother is coming to Cornwall.
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Good afternoon everyone.
Shopping has certainly changed from my younger days. I can vaguely remember the co-op having butter in thin wooden barrels and weighing out things like currants and flour from sacks. In one department store the shop assistant put your money in a tube in it went overhead on wires to a central office where they put your change in and it came whizzing back.
Jo, maybe OH could rent a front loader, that would keep him safe (until he drives into a ditch that is
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What's Fine Fare? Could someone explain please?
Oh PP I reember one ofthose. I always used to wonder where the tubes went. I was only little but when I read your post the sound they made came to me
Enjoy your meal Jo
Fine Fare-was one of the first supermarkets in the UK got swallowed up years ago-catering for the middle classes
Got taken over by Gateway who got taken over by Somerfield who got taken over by the Co-op
Changing the subject, our local council has hired a firm to ring people up who are claiming a discount on their Council Tax as they are the single occupant in their property. This firm is using voice analyst software to see if they are lying and wrongly claiming the discount. Big Brother is coming to Cornwall.
Travelling salesman providing remedies for all ailments...
Pam that didn't work in Birmingham-it did not recognise the local accent
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/birmingham-councils-voice-recognition-phone-software-doesnt-understand-brummie-8281941.html
So unless you are saying "hello- all right my luvver"-then you are stuck
Thanks Geoff,
Sorry to ask, Insomnia1973 
Is that AT Gary, trying to sell some "sn(e)akey business" ?
What happened there Flower
Hulk Hogan on the radio this afternoon-my kids used to love wrestling
Phew, I'm probably okay then.