Hi Mikey, Yes you could get kitted out at the CO-OP, downstairs was all the grocery shop which sold absolutely everything from candles to boot laces. Next door was hardware with haberdashery upstairs, alas in the early seventies they closed all but the grocery side and later even it went so there is no village C0-OP now :-( In the days when I worked out the divi it was a percentage of a penny per pound spent (cant remember the exact figure) and you could claim it back in goods or cash, I think you got slightly more if claimed in goods. There was also a seat in the corner for pregnant women and old ladies to sit on, no one else was supposed to. I remember when they had to move the chair to make way for the new style self service displays there was nearly an uprising from he regular customers :-)) TTFN Marion <<I only vaguely recall this but I think when the Divi stopped mum got a pay out on top of her Divi, like a share equivalent from the Nottingham Cooperative Society and possibly included was the CWS the Cooperative Wholesale Society. Do you know if they sold the milk and bread please and possible the meat. Could even buy "Candlesticks" at the main one along from the Theatre Royal!:-)) I recall getting my School clobber there. The whole shebang.