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Paradox
Local Carrefour to do the same.
The first difference is that it Fresh, hot - from - the - oven Although Carrefour is a very big shop, it is probably easier to buy
small quantities of food in it than almost anywhere else.
will be a 'local' shop. The bread and cakes made
Store Director has very con- sense in grandma's day Where else might you buy, for instance, a single tomato, a single
siderable local autonomy; and, you see, they'll make li nk sausage, a chop, perhaps half a dozen prawns fora garnish, an
as much 'buying' as possible good sense at Carrefour/ ounce or two of several different cheeses and a fresh cream cake
is done by local people on a Swindon. - all in the one shop?
local basis; and Carrefour/ Meat
Swindon will assume a local, Some shoppers find it easier missing?
Swindon character, even as to pick up their meat pre- What's cy - ll
each of the existing Carre- wrapped — but most prefer Since we hold forth about Carrefour reckon on re wi
at ling cardboard pulp that
t
ecial
four shops has its own, indiv- to select it, or have it cut-to- eve rything that is sp ss w uivalen of about
s henry t^es per daY
idual, local character. order and wrapped, by the Carrefour, in fairne thing 5,200 trees a
d
a few
Choice butcher. must recor . So about
you gill not find tsbabter.
The second difference is that So there will be the choice. Cardboard shipping boxes year
nowadays, there is a bewild- Remember, too, mutton? and 'free' corner bags at the Carrier bags such thing
ce.
There is really no
ering choice of goods avail- Not mutton sold as lamb, but checkouts, for instan
as a 'free' carrier bag. for
able and, especially in food- real mutton, sold as mutton, There is a reaso n. r You X11 realise that their
so
stuffs, a shop has to be big in to produce a roast rack of Firstly. Carrefour get fewey cost has to be met ihe odd
y
order to offer the widest mutton or a mutton pie? For shipping boxes than man y b adding
shops. since many goods usuall
choice. Take cheeses as an although it is the case, are delivered in re-useable halfpenny to certain items.
Also, it is noted that when
example. Typically, Carre- against the national aver- cages and p pallets carrier bags are freely
four/Swindon will offer a age, that Carrefour shops Secondly. an empty card- erred, most of them are
way at p
variety of about 78 different sell a disproportionately, very board box given a used once — and then go to
kinds — prepacked or cut- high percentage of beef (it the checkout makes, tYPlc- waste food
to-order, as you wish. You may have something to do ally. one trip home and then
goes to waste. They are Better, then, to keep
might wonder, too, how they with the price and the qual- made, however, from tree paces at the absolute mini-
s dim- mum — and then make
could all be kept fresh — ity), it is not always easy to pulp. one of the earth'
until you realise that the find a very wide variety of finishing resources; and one only a cost price charge for
carrier bags usually have a
average Carrefour sells meats — and serious cooks that Carrefour prefer to see carner bags. In this wcy. the
ed.
around a ton of cheese per looking for something out of recycl longer life, and both the
e
you will customer and the ecology
day and that fresh supplies the ordinary will do well to Carrefour believ better off
e that this is better. How
have constantly to be consult the butchers. agre hop. are
much better? From this s
brought in.
How about, for a change, a
Old fashioned crown of lamb?
And a third difference is that
Carrefour/Swindon will be Serious cooks
old-fashioned! For Carrefour is, above all,
about food, glorious food.
Even if you do not remem- Sure, there will be the widest
ber, you'll know that bakers possible choice of fresh
used to bake their bread produce, canned foods, bott-
and cakes right behind the led foods, freeze dried foods
counter from which they and deep frozen foods -
were served. The baker these, incidentally, in both
could keep an eye on what freezer-cabinet sizes and in
products were selling-out - serving sizes.
and bake fresh batches in r
his ovens, on demand. More But where, under one roof,
especially, too, you could can you find the makings
describe a special cake to for most of the classic recipes
him, that you wanted for a and the more popular ethnic
dishes?
birthday or a celebration.
Perhaps special coloured Carrefour is where.
icing, in a special shape and Test us — and if the ingred- f .^
with a special message ient you want cannot be
spelled out on top. All of found, we'll jolly well try and
which are good reasons for get it for you, _.._-
^j;;^ ry ,. '71
^
enough
Fishy Will k f COnven tionat
arble slab familiar. d enou9n to
the fishmonger's m fish, too, will lank d th0 se sh `f'^
fresh
roneY in fish —
of the for•rn Of thethlrtY
ein
Most l fish connoisseurs — value kno wn wellworth

rea
But for enuine prot a^spla yed, `Niel be
well
reciate
On the 1
the 9 deice,
app fisn n er's a Fancy a meal - or a cup of coffee?
the e° p f fish and crustacea ou brou9nt VIOMe Former Royal Navy chef, Mike Grey, once prepared meals for
or 50 tYP rane3n n h0lid"' Y it with some tom
g
takin a M edlter not try Prince Charles (whilst the Prince of Wales was serving at HMS
m
And if, fro . or octopus, Osprey, RNAS Portland). We judge that now as the West Swindon
liking for squid Centre Restaurant Manager, he will treat you royally.
cooking?
Check, too, that it is for less than a princely sum.