Guth & Tuairim, Meán Fómhair 1981

Uimh 5 Mean Fomhair 1981 Luach 25p. Cl12tn0.1kflll (Kfllll2~tli'a - W~tfl) !lallia& Qba&a& (! llb) SHOPPING Kell.y 1 s ~. Kelly 1 s 54p. Coyle's - . Cope 56p. c. Bonner ~. Mace 57p. Cope A.0 1 Donnell Annagry 57p. SURVEY Anthony's 76p. c. Bonner 58p. Mace ~;. Molloy's 58p. Molloy's Coyle's 6op. Our survey or shop prices has finally got off the ground this month, and according to your letters it is cre,ting much interest. It is however very difficult to carry out such a complex survey, so in the shdrt space of' time available to us this month we can only paint a very brief' picture, Jam (CMvara Stuyhercy 1 Jb) Cope 57p. Kell.y's 62p. C• Bonner 68p. MN7Pelede Kell.y's Molloy's Coyle's Anthony's Cope (old time (Annagry) Irish 1 lb.) - 6Jp. 69p. - 58p. Anthony's 59p. - 55po Molloy 1 s 68p. 67p. We are however going to continue monthly with this column so we'd welcome your ideas and opir~ror.~s:. Pey (B&tchelors - l'?j- oz.) Beans (Ba.tcbelOl"'a l'?j- oz.) A small grocer wrote to us as follows: Kelly's 2_3h,. Cope "I am writing in protest at the survey that you · Cope 28p. Kelly's have started. I am dependant on the small takings Coyle's 28p. Coyle's that I have nowadays due to most people shopping Anthony's 25p. C. Bonner in the supermarkets. I reel your survey is not C• Bonner 28p. Anthony's very fair as you cannot compare a small grocery Mace 27p • Mace business with a large supermarket. I only buy Molloy's 24P• Molloy 1 s ~. 34p. 34p. Jlp. Jlp. 27p. 1mall amounts at a time whereas the large Mace, M.N.C., etc, stores can bu;y vast amounts at very keen prices. We didn't get any shops done in Burtonport but we lrlhen I buy m;y goods I add V .A.T. + a small percentage baline that prices in all branches of the Cope are profit, e.g. less thantp profit on milk, l-2p on the same. a loaf. It's hardly worth our while selling these If' you want to help us to carry out more checks or things at all. I feel in all fairness that you should if you have suggestions or ideas write to us at: exclude the small shopkeepers from your survey as "Survey", "Guth 7 Tuairim", Doire Beaga. it could ruin our livelihood. I'd be gratei'nl if' A reader from Dungloe pointed out that Farley's your_ readers would consider our predicament _ we Rusks (Large) varied in price as follows:- cannot compete with the larger stores pricewise. On The Cope, Dungloe - 76p. Paddy Kelly's, Falcarragh the other hand, what supermarket gives you such a good 88p; c. Banner's, Dungloe - 89p. So we hope to do service? We are open from g or 9 a.m. until late at a special feature on Rusks, Pamper& ': SD:ugglers. night, 7 days a week usually•. And where else would Another reader suggested a survey on detergents, you get credit? Not in the supermarkets. (people) minerals, tissues, baby foods. have abort memories). Please consider our plight Over to you the public ! • before you add to our extinction". r-____..___..;_________________ We agree, but I think most people accept that the sllall shops aa. dearer rut people are willing to .pay to~: a apegi,.], genig&. ' We have in fact concentrated (this month at least) 'on the larger stores. We picked a list ot basic foodstuff's and selected what we considered to be the most popular brand names. Then we sent this list or items to people in the 3 parishes who agreed to carry out the survey for us. They checked the prices between Saturday 12th September and Saturday 19, rut unfortunate~ we found that many brands and itelll8 were not available in certain shops. Therefore we could not get a total cost f'or our shopping bag. Some items, like tea (which incidental}3 went up during our survey) don't vary as they are price– marked on all their goods so we cannot give you any information on them at this stage. 'Also, we cannot over-rule the possibility of mistakes being made by (a) our volunteers, (b) the shops themselves. Add to thia the fact that special offers are some– times available and that stamps are available in some. shops and you can see how complex the job is. IniUa.J. nsults Qf our S1l1'l[ey. Bntter (J Jh. Mitah&llstfj!WP). Coyle'a, Carrick - 70p. Molloys, Derrybeg 6JW. ·Kelly's, Falcarragh 66p. Mace, Gortahork 66p. Cope, Ilungloe 67-h>. C• Bonner, Dungloe 68p. Coff@g N&acate (Mild Cope Molloy 1 s . Kelly's Ingtantl 200 il"• 2.S8p. 2.95p• 2.90p. rr . RuNNIN4- WAT6R 11\1. LjouR. ~oH . J SIR. IJ . - .. ·~