The Co-op on Skye has stores at Kyle, Broadford and two in Portree. These are the only supermarkets available on the whole island so you have no choice but to shop there if you want to eat. Either that or drive for 2 hours over to Inverness! In Portree the two stores, which you would expect to stock the same items as the same price, charge you more if you shop at the smaller store in the village. For instance, a pack of butter can be almost 70 pence more expensive just for the same item if you buy it in the store in the village. The quality of produce is shocking, expecially in the fruit and veg section, they regularly run out of bread (especially in the summer) and other common staple items, they never stock in accordance with demand, the choice is shocking (vegetarians have been eating the same stuff for years now as the stock has not changed, if you like quorn pieces or mince you are fine but be prepared to be eating this for the next 50 years!), the prices are exorbinant (prepare to be paying over a tenner just to get some a loaf of bread, a pack of butter, pack of cheese and a carton of milk!) and for too long this has been accepted. It is simply just lucicrous that we are being held to ransom and are just sitting back and taking it! NO MORE!! Please join the cause so that we can try to make a change to a fairer more cost effective and better supermarket world on the island!
I am currently drafting a formal letter to the regional management team to address the inconsistent pricing between the Portree locations. The signatures collected thus far have allowed me to request a formal meeting regarding their inventory practices and local pricing structure.
September 22, 2011
The scale of this response confirms that residents are ready for a formal challenge to the current pricing model. I have begun drafting a letter to the regional management team to request an explanation regarding the price disparities between the stores on the island.
4 Comments
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Mary Gaffney
1 year ago
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I have recently bought a house in Plockton and cannot believe the monopoly situation the Co op has. The stores in Kyle and in Broadford are very poor. The stocking is terrible, the prices very high and the choice of produce very very poor.
They do not have competition and we need a choice.
I cannot believe Tesco and other large supermarkets are not interested in a store here.
What is the real story?.
R
robert roper
8 years ago
Featured
really really expensive, we need at the best an aldi or lidl. I'm so tired of the co op cartel.
H
Hamish Montgomery
14 years ago
Featured
its a joke honestly. drove all the way to portree yesterday and the shelves were half empty like usual. why should we pay way more for the same food just because we live on an island? bring us a lidl already.
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Tan CandiA
1 year ago
Shocking
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The Co-op on Skye has stores at Kyle, Broadford and two in Portree. These are the only supermarkets available on the whole island so you have no choice but to shop there if you want to eat. Either that or drive for 2 hours over to Inverness! In Portree the two stores, which you would expect to stock the same items as the same price, charge you more if you shop at the smaller store in the village. For instance, a pack of butter can be almost 70 pence more expensive just for the same item if you buy it in the store in the village. The quality of produce is shocking, expecially in the fruit and veg section, they regularly run out of bread (especially in the summer) and other common staple items, they never stock in accordance with demand, the choice is shocking (vegetarians have been eating the same stuff for years now as the stock has not changed, if you like quorn pieces or mince you are fine but be prepared to be eating this for the next 50 years!), the prices are exorbinant (prepare to be paying over a tenner just to get some a loaf of bread, a pack of butter, pack of cheese and a carton of milk!) and for too long this has been accepted. It is simply just lucicrous that we are being held to ransom and are just sitting back and taking it! NO MORE!! Please join the cause so that we can try to make a change to a fairer more cost effective and better supermarket world on the island!
I am currently drafting a formal letter to the regional management team to address the inconsistent pricing between the Portree locations. The signatures collected thus far have allowed me to request a formal meeting regarding their inventory practices and local pricing structure.
September 22, 2011
The scale of this response confirms that residents are ready for a formal challenge to the current pricing model. I have begun drafting a letter to the regional management team to request an explanation regarding the price disparities between the stores on the island.
4 Comments
M
Mary Gaffney
1 year ago
Featured
I have recently bought a house in Plockton and cannot believe the monopoly situation the Co op has. The stores in Kyle and in Broadford are very poor. The stocking is terrible, the prices very high and the choice of produce very very poor.
They do not have competition and we need a choice.
I cannot believe Tesco and other large supermarkets are not interested in a store here.
What is the real story?.
R
robert roper
8 years ago
Featured
really really expensive, we need at the best an aldi or lidl. I'm so tired of the co op cartel.
H
Hamish Montgomery
14 years ago
Featured
its a joke honestly. drove all the way to portree yesterday and the shelves were half empty like usual. why should we pay way more for the same food just because we live on an island? bring us a lidl already.
I have recently bought a house in Plockton and cannot believe the monopoly situation the Co op has. The stores in Kyle and in Broadford are very poor. The stocking is terrible, the prices very high and the choice of produce very very poor. They do not have competition and we need a choice. I cannot believe Tesco and other large supermarkets are not interested in a store here. What is the real story?.