Euromillions - if I won it...

[5129frederick]

I'd start a family general store, where there'd be no top-shelf magazines of any description, no cigarettes, and definitely no alcohol.  It would have everyday foodstuffs, soft drinks, newspapers for the adults,comics for the kids, and bars of chocolate for those with a sweet tooth.  Not sitting too high on my moral horse, if you wanted the other things listed you'd go elsewhere.  I'd also like to see a return of the traditional off-licence where you can buy one bottle of beer as opposed to a four-pack as sold in the supermarket, forcing you to spend more, and the family-run butcher and baker, which cater for the individual, as opposed to the masses.  I'd like a bottle of mead, but none of the supermarkets stock it, and half the staff - youngsters mainly, havent even heard of it.

[charliebird123]

Would you sell lottery tickets??:|

[5129frederick]

Well and why not :^O - I'd,have to cater for the wants of my customers otherwise I'd go out of business, but the emphasis would be on a family grocery/corner shop with women's magazines like Woman's Own or Chat or Bella, while for the men I'd have general men's magazines like m/c News or car magazines.  There'd be no need of a "top-shelf" because they'd be general readership material.  With regards to your original question, I might even buy a few tickets myself!:^O

[charliebird123]

Would you sell the Sun newspaper? can't have all those page 3 girls on show can we?:|

[5129frederick]

TOUCHE!  :^O

I was forgetting your super, sensational, Sun newspaper... er, did you say newspaper???😄

[al**bear]

I'm sure I've seen Mead in some supermarkets up here

but of course we'll drink anything ]:)

[5129frederick]

I once Googled it.  There are places that sell it, but it's about £7.00 postage!  There is a place in the West End but the minimum tube fare is about £4.00 each way.  Like I said, there was a time when off-licences used to sell a variety of drinks by single cans or bottle.  Ok, so it cost a bit more in the long run, but I don't fancy buying four-packs if I just want the occasional drink.  I like Newcastle Brown occasionally, and used to drink proper barley wine (Gold Label) but I'm not a regular drinker.  I could go months without one.  I live directly opposite a pub, and the only time I ventured in there was when somebody stood me a meal one Christmas.   You'll find that most older people prefer to have a quiet drink at home.

[5129frederick]

Then, of course, there's the Star :-).

[kiss*my*pixel]

Hang on just one tiddly second here Fred - in your OP you say definitely no alcohol, then further down you say back to traditional off-licences.

Which is it, one or the other  :^O

[electric*mayhem*band]

Will you sell a traditional Victoria Sponge Cake, because no one at Greggs has ever heard of them ? In fact they think that a sponge is either something you use in the bath, or a filling for a scatter cushion.

[5129frederick]

Aha!  You think you've got me on that one, about not stocking alcohol?  Nay!  I repeat nay!    Try reading my OP again:-D  I said IF you wanted the other things listed, you - and I, would go elsewhere!  You wouldn't, or shouldn't,  get alcohol in a sweet shop or family store  😄  Good point, though.

[5129frederick]

I've had the same problem trying to buy rock cakes - they look at me as if I'm a Cadbury's.  The most hilarious misunderstanding I was faced with was when I was desperately hard up - things haven't changed much.:-)

I had some jewellery and a few other items in my possession and needed to borrow some money from "Uncle".  After being unable to find it, I asked a woman if there was a pawnbroker in the high street.  She went bright red and snapped: "Certainly not!  Not in this area, anyway!"  and stormed off.  I laughed like a drain when it twigged what she thought I was asking!

[al**bear]

Where I live now,  is only 20 odd miles from Glasgow, but 'cakes' have different names. I've also stayed in Edinburgh 15 miles away from here, they are called something different again

Empire Biscuit = Double Biscuit = German Biscuit

[Anonymous]

You'll start a general family store when you win the Euro millions????  😮

Ah well, we all have our dreams I suppose.......:-p

[electric*mayhem*band]

*waves to Harry*

Slumming it are we ? :^O

[Anonymous]

B-)]:)

[5129frederick]

Yes, Harry, if won the Euromillions.  How much do you think it would be to start the ball rolling?  Forget the cost of buying the store, most general stores, and I'm talking of a reasonably modest one here, would have an s.a.v. (Stock at Valuation) ticket at somewhere around £120,000.00.