Mothers Co-op number what was it?.

638!
A small thriving town in the West Country.
I’ve only won two raffles in my life and the first was a box of chocolates at the village Co-op! Deep joy & excitement for a child who didn’t have much in the 50’s.
Pleased to say near me, I’ve got 2 brand new Co-op stores. So handy.
Happy memories.

Yes, I can.
Mum used to write the weekly order in a book and I often had to take it along and ask for certain items straight away, the rest to be delivered later. The Co-op butcher's was next door and I had to go in there too and bring home part of the meat order.

I don't really remember my wellies but I do remember Dad cutting the toes out of my Clark's sandals with a Stanley knife so they would last the rest of the summer.

18291. I remember those pulleys too.

i don't know my grans co-op number but the co-op was the last shop we would go to, i stayed in springburn, glasgow in the 60s/70s, we would go all the way to the dairy and work backwords, butchers, galbraths, woolworths and the last one was the co-op, i got to stick the stamps on, they opened a co-op hypermarket but my gran did not like it.....to big and not very friendly.....lol

9200
The coop started in Rochdale, the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers.

When my mother died, we used Coop funeral service. They asked if she had been a member, I said yes and trotted out the number from memory. They traced the old number back through their records and gave us a discount!

Nannan2

Or corner shops giving you things 'on tick' till payday.?Those were more trusting days...

About 10 years ago a fancy bridal shop gave me three very expensive items to try on at home. On approval.
She took my name and address but had no idea if I was just making it up or not!

I don't remember my mother's number ... but I do still have her book.

How I missed out. I don't think you had a "number" at the NAFFI .

1846 was my mother's divi number.
When she was in a care home with dementia I arrived to be told that she had been reciting this number all morning and they had wondered if I knew what it meant.

Oh yes I remember my mother's Co-op number. She used to drum it into us when she sent us to the Co-op. I can remember going with her to collect the 'divi'.

15163

My Mum’s was 104949.

2824, Dalziel Cooperative in Lanarkshire.

Granmarie, do you remember Dalziel, the baker, who used to come round with a mobile shop?

We had a mobile shop called Larcombes, you could buy pretty much everything, we used to get paraffin, he always had laundry baskets and dustbins tied to his roof.

Hi, Marydoll, I do remember Dalziel the Baker, they had shops as well, but I don't think they were part of the Co op.
Dalziel is/was a local name, historical in these parts!
Sometimes there are variations in the spelling, you see Dalzell also.

Grannmarie was Dalziel co-op near Hamilton ? I am from there and it sounds familiar

I can't remember my mother's number now but I didn't forget it till long after she stopped using it. Actually the number 762147 has just popped into my head - I wonder if that was it?

For a dyed in the wool Tory like my mother the Co op always seemed a very socialist thing for her to be involved in.

595, and woe betide me if I forgot to ask for it, or lost it on the way home. The dividend was used to replenish household goods following the shortage at the end of the war.

*not spaghetti*;I remember goods being sent “on appro” from shops in our small market town, from small dress shops/, shoe shops. Etc Not too different from sending things back to a catalogue or online if they do not suit. One shoe shop in particular rang to say that they had shoes she might like and sent three boxes, each pair in a different colour. Regrettably she left them in the house and went into the garden,and during this time her young puppy chewed up one shoe from each box, so she had to pay for all three pairs , and didn’t have a pair to wear.

Hi, Grandmajean, yes, Dalziel Cooperative Society had several branches - selling groceries, clothing, furniture - across Motherwell and Wishaw, not far from Hamilton.

DH and I had a co-op number but we can't remember it, though DH remembers his mother's. My mother wouldn't have set foot in a Coop.
We have a really excellent one near us but no did I number these days

Ours was 28670. Once a week, my Dad would take a book into our Co-op with a list of groceries which would be ready for collection later that day. Even though this was in the late Fifties, he still talked about “collecting the rations”!

BBbevan - your mum wouldn't set foot in a Co-op, my mum wouldn't buy groceries in Woolworths! She was a terrible snob........but a lovely mum for all that

My Mum's co-op number was 332 and my Gran's was 2626. That was a long time ago in the 50's!