Oct 11 2009
Can you encourage shops by buying their products?
If there’s a product you buy regularly — like tea or washing powder or chocolate biscuits — which isn’t always available locally, you might be inclined to buy it when it’s there, to encourage the shop to stock the item you want.
I saw the brand of tea we like in the big Co-op at the Foot of the Walk the other day, so I bought two boxes instead of just one. Then I realised, if we have twice as much tea in the house, I’ll be buying it half as often. The money we spend on tea in a given year won’t change. So maybe there’s nothing I can actually do to implicitly encourage the Co-op to stock our preferred tea. Unless we drink twice as much tea as before.
2 Responses to “Can you encourage shops by buying their products?”
I buy the Guardian from the little Spar near us every time I see that they have a copy (even if I’ve already bought one elsewhere that day) in the hope that they will start getting more in. It hasn’t bloody worked.
Well, they actively stop stocking everything that I like at the Coop in Dunbar. Clearly, I have a negative effect on their stock policies. Bah!