I ask you why in 1930 they could afford to go round the streets just selling bread to the public,? I ask why in in this crises with everyone in every street self isolating can all the supper markets not get together out, after all the people buy off them week-in/week-out by doing something like this, not only talking about bread here but other essentials you all know the things people need better than I do

I was only thiking earlier that vans like farmers boy would make a killing just now.

Dougie, I think you will also remember those, converted coaches, Slater had one, it was rigged out like a mini Market, Later on the was a few converted ambulances doing the same thing, perhaps we might see them come back,

Dougie, does the Supper Market Delivery Van only come round after 9pm?

Just to clarify they wouldn't take orders just sell off the cuff like the old days by ringing an ice cream bell , as for paying they could give credit say £10 then you would pay only when the £10 runs out so easy

Yes I remember them, but As I see it the van is not to stop anyone going to the shops it would only help them to cut down

Whoooooooosh?

I bet you could come up with the profit each Supper Market made last year if you had to prove a point,so I say in these trying times the Government should just make them do it

PS they could hire clean white vans and use volunteer driver to help, not like the one you take to Spain

Definitely - Whoooooooosh?

Maybe they could have breakfast vans and dinner vans as well?

supper , bet their a few suppers now confined to home

Shame on you expat but it gets your count up from 2327 t0 2328, even and firefly---pulled me up for all to see are YOU ALL trying to stop me posting in case I make a mistake, I'll be looking to see the number of threads you've started over the last nine years Man, I've looked do you know but keep posting reply's your not the only one to take the mick in a round about way

Too doo what yoo propose, yoo would need a licence from the council, it used to be called a 'food hawking' licence, and the vehicle would have to pass all the health & safety requirements, and where the foodstuffs were stored would also have to pass those health & safety requirements, and that were the requirements 35yrs ago, I would imagine that there is now a raft of rules and regulations on top of all that

He took that badly. :D

Hope you get it reall quick DOUGIE you plonker.

I have reflected on your 40221 post DOUGIR my advice to you go and jump in the Dougie

Is it a bird, is it a plane, No Its Supper Man

A Song, especially for Dougie!

Dougie

Ignore the snipers. You’ve made a valuable contribution over the years to WW.
Exponents of lateral thinking will tell you that countless ideas seen as non starters were the foundation for the greater good after brainstorming sessions by lateral thinkers. Many years ago I designed an arrangement for adjusting drawers. It attracted the detractors. It was patented and went to sell more than 5 million sets.
There is no doubt that the Coronavirus has highlighted, like never before, the weaknesses of globalisation. All paracetamol tablets come from India,
many of the basic chemicals used in pharmaceutical products are exclusively produced in China. In every walk of life we have become too dependent on globalisation.
President Trump’s reshoring policy of taking back production of American products back to the US will gather momentum. The same will happen elsewhere.
So Dougie your seed of a bread van will no doubt flower into a bloom of more local production and distribution. It may well be right now that the Amazon/ Morrison tie up is looking to exploit the woeful home delivery performance of the supermarkets at a time when it is most needed.
You may well have the last laugh.

It's all 'tongue-in-cheek fun'. And Dougie knows it is.
We all know Dougie gets about a bit and is a useful source of information.
While we're on the subject of deliveries, Dougie, do they deliver from here?

Gaffer,Paracetamol tablets plus other painkillers are made in Westhoughton.

British Made Since 1977

They may well produce Paracetamol tablets but where do they get the basic ingredient. China and India account for 84% of the world production of paracetamol ingredients. India relies on China for some of it’s supplies.
The last European factory producing Paracetamol from scratch, the Panadol factory in France, closed in 2009.

Even if they could produce from scratch, Gaffer, their output would only cover a small % of demand.

So, China produces them, meaning that they do not all come from India!

Stop using facts to undermine gaffer's attempts to make political capital from a health crisis. In the brave new world, we base our policies on fictions.

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I'm goin't'put t'kettle on now!

Thanks Gaffer I call them Knockers some only post one line and most of the time it's a load of Dog Poo,even though I don't say much over the years I've seen the dead wood come and go so it's not hard for me to pick people out.

Is gaffer going to benefit? Is he a shareholder in the parecetamol manufacturing companies?

Dougie, a sense of humour would be required for you to get the joke.

For YOU, Dougie!

Cor

Yoo would still need a licence from the council sell bread from a van

I have a vague recollection from the early 1960s of me mum having a bread man in Bamfurlong, this van was a walk in van, but all the products which were cakes, has well as breads, they were all on these slide out trays, which the man would wazz out using a metal rod, and the smell in that van was really yummy

your right Firefox only thing I see is in your post there's no advertising on Wigan World and he found the back door, not funny in anyway your just stating the fact, sorry could you please explain the joke