British Corner Shop - clubbing together to place an order

Hi Val

You posted recently on TAG about British Corner Shop, retailers based near Bristol who export British grocery and household goods all over the world. For France their P&P rate is about £12 for 30 kilos, but they halve this if the package contains more than £100 worth of goods, which is really very reasonable, and justifies us clubbing together to place a joint order.  

By comparison, incidentally, ParcelForce would charge £75.54 to ship a 30 kilo package to France. What a difference!

We ordered from British Corner Shop last month, when you and Malcolm joined in to buy your Yorkshire teabags and other bits and pieces.  We shall order again next month, and we wondered if any TAG readers who are also Book Swappers would like to join in, on the basis of sharing the P&P cost pro rata. If so, we should like to bring orders together at the January Book Swap, and then have the goods here to bring to the February one.  

If anyone coming to the Book Swap at the Gazpacho, St Antonin on 6th January would like to join in our group order from British Corner Shop, here's what to do.  

First step: go to the British Corner Shop web site and choose what you'd like.  The address is http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/.  You can ignore log-in;  just click on Start Shopping or Shop Now and then view products by brand, search by name, or browse by group or by category.  There's a tremendous range to choose from.  

Second step: don't add anything to a Shopping Basket, but instead bring a note of what you've chosen, its brand, size and price, and your email address to the January Book Swap. There won't be anything to pay in advance.  

And that's it!  If you later find you are unable to pick up your order at the February Book Swap, we can make separate arrangements for payment and collection.   

British Corner Shop prices are higher than at Asda or Sainsbury's, but then the goods will be delivered to SW France for next to nothing!

x Chris     

Val says  What a brilliant service for us all. I want to thank Karen and Chris Robinson for coming up with this idea and we will certainly be using it. 
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