Mothers Co-op number what was it?.

My Mum’s number was 15889 which always meant I knew the date of the Spanish Armada!
After moving back here from Harrogate, my Dad worked for the Co-op until he retired. Long hours - a five and a half day week.

Does anyone else shopping for Mum before the war (I am over 90), in a shop where assistants put your money in gadget and sent it to a central cashier by pulling a rope, and the cashier sent change back in the same gadget? This was in our local draper, which also sold clothes.

I don’t remember my Grans number but do remember sticking the stamps in the book and going with her when the divi was paid out. My Grandad had a saying when he was talking about a person who always seemed to get away with things they did- “if they fell off the co-op they’d fall in the divi”. Also remember various shops that had the pulley system for sending cash backwards and forwards ,the containers really seemed to whizz along or so it seemed to me as a child.

I can remember my mother's Co-op number and I still use it as part of my online passwords - no one will ever guess it unlike birthdates or door numbers.

14546 - i used to love being sent shopping. Except for a few times when I dropped a tray of eggs.
And another time when I dropped a bottle of white vinegar which she used to rinse her hair. People were asking, "Is it poison?"