the co-op

The Co-​Op is the main supermarket in Stocksbridge and the biggest. It has a café, a Co-​Op travel store and a tobacco/​lottery ticket kiosk. The range of food available is quite impressive. It’s good for veggies as well as meat eaters (unlike just about anywhere else in Stocksbridge). It basically offers everything that most supermarkets of it’s size does, food, booze, tolietries, cleaning products, and kitchen/​cooking utilities, etc. Staff are very friendly. My only complaint is that it’s very expensive, especially for food. Far more expensive than Lidl or any other supermarket (excluding Waitrose!). They have offers on such as ‘Buy 1 Get 1 Free’ which rotate around different products every week or so. But instead of having these offers why don’t they just make everything else cheaper and in-​line with current supermarket prices? There’s no end of families on low incomes that just can’t afford to do their weekly shop in the Co-​Op and have to go to Lidl or travel out of Stocksbridge.