Countrywide retail up for sale
- Thread starter Pasty
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Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Anyone heard anything about what's happening with them went into Cornwall farmers today and half the shelves were empty.
Old MacDonald
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- Location
- Glos.
If it's anything like Countrywide, their stores are half empty as well.....none of their suppliers can get credit insurance on them, so they are having to pay for everything cash up front
- Location
- Ceredigion
- Location
- South Wales UK
They knackered it after Westmidland Farmers were took over.
timeline history
https://www.countrywidefarmers.co.uk/t/History-of-Countrywide
https://www.countrywidefarmers.co.uk/t/History-of-Countrywide
- Location
- South Wales UK
All those years and final few tin hat ?
- Location
- South Wales UK
Closed small farmers accounts that the founding co operative was formed to serve .
Stick their Christmas card !
Stick their Christmas card !
Only dog food and a bit of sheep wormer
backslapping robot
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backslapping robot
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because co-ops get bigger, they are self serving in the end,
My friend worked for Countrywide for several years. Her department had the highest sales but 'the management', kept changing, usually people who had no interest in the farming community or stocking what people actually wanted and not what had the highest mark up.
She said when the man that handled all the farmers accounts for many years retired he handed on his list of contacts to the chap taking over in a book, which was basically binned.
The shop floor had no control over the buyers and the managers had no respect for them, as most were young, probably had a degree in business management, looking for their next job and basically looked down on them.
Really they do not deserve to be in business.
She said when the man that handled all the farmers accounts for many years retired he handed on his list of contacts to the chap taking over in a book, which was basically binned.
The shop floor had no control over the buyers and the managers had no respect for them, as most were young, probably had a degree in business management, looking for their next job and basically looked down on them.
Really they do not deserve to be in business.
- Location
- South Molton
Sounds like a certain coop not a million miles from here!
Been in today and shelves severely lacking in ag goods. But lots of cut price christmas sh!t
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
The local CF /CW store to us used to have the highest turnover per sq ft than any of the bigger premises.
Since the CW takeover, it it rare to find they have something on the shelf that you want to buy. In fact the manager is delighted if he has.
Turnover is down by 40 per cent.
Sadly, MVF has a similar top-down ethos now, and it is unlikely that local managers will be able to supply 'their' customers with goods they have been able to collect ex-shelf in the past.
I suspect it will be a case of buy elsewhere, keep a stock at the farm and never run out.
Since the CW takeover, it it rare to find they have something on the shelf that you want to buy. In fact the manager is delighted if he has.
Turnover is down by 40 per cent.
Sadly, MVF has a similar top-down ethos now, and it is unlikely that local managers will be able to supply 'their' customers with goods they have been able to collect ex-shelf in the past.
I suspect it will be a case of buy elsewhere, keep a stock at the farm and never run out.
- Location
- South Molton
one thing they have got at chipping norton
is Dog food ,.........20 diff flavors and any thing for a horse
Ah but do they know how to move a dead horse?