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Time to Shop Local
by Lib Dem team on 27 June, 2020
Please support our fantastic local traders as we come out of lockdown. They stood by us, now it’s time to stand by them.
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I will defianetly be doing this. Paul and David have worked really hard to help us during lockdown. Very patient too as my IT skills are not great. Had my order delivered each week. So thanks to you both for your support.
I’d like to give a shout out to piccolos who do a fabulous family meal deal for £15.90. (It even includes wine)! All delivered to your door. And Charlies too who do gorgeous desserts.
Well I would shop local if traders were more inclusive of different diets such as veganism. Cheadle village is terrible for vegans and they are forced to shop at larger supermarkets to get what they need, despite the fact that there are quite a few vegans in the area.
Great point – hopefully a gap in the market that some local traders will look to fill.
Yes lets hope so.
Pre-Covid, we used to have a weekly visit to a restaurant – some near, some further away. But, with lockdown, we’ve swapped that for a weekly home delivery meal from one of a relative few local places, mainly advertising on Deliveroo and delivering to Gatley. With one exception, these have not been restaurants we’d usually visit in normal times (and probably wouldnt be in a rush to visit when they reopen). But it’s all credit to them that they’ve kept themselves going with delivery and takeaway. FWIW, here’s the list of places that we’ve ordered from (and they are just about all the localish places that we’ve found that deliver to us):-
Cheadle – Turquoise, Istanbul Grill, Janna, Yara (which we visit regularly in “normal” times)
Cheadle Hulme – Delhi Dream, Garam Masala
Didsbury – Jarern Kitchen, OKItchen, Sangam
Gatley – Piccolo, Somtam Street (delivery only, not a restaurant), Sadagar
One week we ordered a “kit” from Stockport’s Where The Light Gets In. It’s a multi course meal with some dishes ready to eat, others needed heating up. Very different. Loved it.
With not being able to go to the supermarket as we’re shielding, it’s been an almost fun exercise finding new food suppliers. Right at the beginning, we put an online order in to a butcher in Nelson who we buy from regularly – free range pork, beef & lamb from a farm just down the road from the shop. We found a Bury market trader who was doing home delivery of fruit & veg (this is their last week doing it). There was a cheesemonger online doing top end farmhouse cheese. I couldnt get to Venus in Rusholme for Middle Eastern products, but found another source online. Oh, yes, and Amazon turned up an office cleaning supplies company who sold us 72 toilet rolls when they’d all been “panic bought” locally.
And, after the first weeks, we started to be able to get a regular Sainsbury home delivery slot or “click and collect”, so we’ve really just used them for the groceries.
We’ve not been to a supermarket since mid-March and have no enthusiasm for starting again. Even though restrictions are being lifted, we still don’t consider it safe. When we started our own lockdown on Wednesday 18 March, there were 34 reported deaths and 676 new infections that day. Last Wednesday, day 98 of our isolation, there were 154 deaths and 653 new infections. This is not over by a long way.
Hi John. Here,s another place you may wish to order your food from. All delicious home style food cooked from fresh on Castle Street in Edgeley. https://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-coco-bay-caribbean-kitchen-stockport/menu?fbclid=IwAR2F6NigOqn1AHtB_1jyFLRdskfe7n2JG6CG-luTFBgLRytlTJBB34Kc0xU
I guess We all want to help and shop at the locals but the connivence of large stores one-stop shopping is so overwhelming.
To help Cheadle village we need 2 hours free parking (by ticket).
Many-a-time I would have gone to shop in Cheadle but in all honesty I got a mental block over payment the 30pence for parking !!!
You`re not alone Hasan, its the reason I avoid shopping there as well (along with Stockport town centre). Seems the council would rather have their pound of flesh, than back the businesses that subsidise them through their rates.
Short term greed, long term disaster.
30p? Are you serious? If you park on the street in Stockport, it costs £1.80 minimum in places.
30p? infrastructure costs like everything else. Don’t believe the Tories who like you to think you can get something for nothing.
Keep your red flag flying
Add on The Spinn, the chippy round the corner, The Battered Cod, Instanbul, CasadeMoor, where in normal times we enjoyed good food, fresh and hot. We had Christmas at Casa de Moor. Full marks the chippy for being open throughout the last 12 weeks….delicious freshly cooked dish.
Anyone else want a free advert?
How about Shenton’s Farm Shop, in Handforth?
Family member “discovered” it early on during lockdown. Rang them with a fruit & veg order for our four households. They rang a few days later saying it was ready to collect. Good quality produce.
And Greenhalgh’s in Cheadle. Home delivery of bread, etc (or “click & collect”).
The parking at the Peel Centre, Stockport, is in the hands of Peel Retail Parks, who levy a charge on all vehicles parking there. The majority of those vehicles bring shoppers to the businesses operating there, those businesses have no commercial connection to Peel other than being tenants of Peel, charging rent to the likes of PCWorld and the other shops. So Peel not only bleed the commercial tenants but also their customers.
How many customers would a supermarket lose if it or a third party like Peel charged for parking?
How many others like me avoid shopping in Stockport because of charge like that before you even step inside a store?
You don’t need a Mary Portas to give you the solution to it.
Unfettered parking!
As for PCWorld, why don’t they refund parking on any purchase made?
Full marks for praising the local shops
They have done a great job in the circumstances
Regular to Jackson O’malleys fantastic quality food
Then we have complaints about 30p car park charges in Cheadle and not enough for Vegans
I sit and listen to all the nonsense going on in the news and think am I alone in thinking the world has gone mad .I would like Bovril crisps back, Dads cookies and Knorr Jerk sauce. I think I will march in the streets and cause mayhem perhaps someone will then listen
Anyway never mind at least United won GGMU !!!!
Support our fantastic local traders – i couldn’t agree more.
Loved seeing the pic of Gatley Jackson O’malleys: great people and great food.
I’m in my 70’s so haven’t been to a big supermarket since March. My local shops in Gatley and Heald Green have been supurb these past 3 months. What i’ve learnt during that time is that i don’t need to do a big supermarket any more – all the fresh meat, veg and fruit is on my doorstep so why would i. As a result i’ve been been cooking more meals and they’re probably more healthy with the fresh ingredients, and certainly more satisfying.
Nice to see Nixons and Shentons mentioned in the posts above. Both good local places for meats and veg, and for plants.
I will continue to do my shopping locally and i hope that many more people will see all the benefits of it.