Sunny Saturdays

Today at the shop... it was another splendid Saturday. The sun shone, there was a veritable buzz in the street, some people were even out wearing flipflops and shorts, and a lot of jolly nice customers came and spent lots of money. Our shop celebrates the end of another bumper week. You might have noticed a new face in the shop today - with Lawrie stranded somewhere in Europe in a volcanic dust cloud and Freddie away at camp, we welcomed Joshua to the Green Valley fold. And a very good job he did too, keeping us stocked up in 'rush hour'.

'News' today came from Jenny (who works at Suma), telling us about Suma's packaging change. Lots of our customers are Suma-loyals and you might have noticed that the bags are different. It's not just a fancy re-brand! From this month, their full range of dried fruit, seeds, beans, pulses and snacks (250 product lines - we squeeze loads of these into our shelf-space) have fully recycled and recyclable packaging - it's called "rPET", the process has a lower carbon footprint than other packaging media and is already used for water and soft drinks bottles, which of course can be recycled in our green bins. Let's support Suma in their lead on this and hope that Kirklees is able to 'do their bit' when it gets to them! Read more at www.suma.coop/2010/03/16/suma-launches-new-recyclable-packaging/ 

Today, we also congratulated The Radish on their launch yesterday and a very busy first Saturday today. If you've not heard yet, the greengrocer in Marsden has been bought by Lindsay and Roger and they are now up and running, selling a similar range of fruit and veg to us, along with HandMade Bakery bread. It's great news that another shop has been 'rescued' in the Colne Valley and that the 'proper' bread supply will continue in Marsden. For more info, see their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/topic.php. We wish them luck and look forward to working with them on our Manchester market runs.