Probably not wishing to add to the Co-op’s woes, Wanstead journalist Sean Farrell, who works for the Guardian, has nevertheless felt compelled to tackle the Wanstead Co-op’s broken fridge doors. He now appears to have had some success.
@Wansteadium Co-op head office promises to fix doors hanging open in Wanstead branch after my intervention. See my recent tweets for details
— Sean Farrell (@farrell_s) November 19, 2013
Me 25 Apr:@TheCooperative can't get fridge doors to close at Wanstead branch so how could it have integrated and run 600+ #Lloyds branches?
— Sean Farrell (@farrell_s) November 18, 2013
That didn’t work, so he copied in the bank’s chief executive Euan Sutherland.
Me 25 Apr:@TheCooperative can't get fridge doors closed at Wanstead branch so how could it have integrated #Lloyds branches?@euansutherland
— Sean Farrell (@farrell_s) November 18, 2013
Hey presto.
@farrell_s Thanks for letting us know about the fridge doors. We will pass this to the right people to get fixed. Steve
— The Co-operativeFood (@CooperativeFood) November 19, 2013
In fairness, the big stores put a lot of effort into social media – Tesco were very solicitous when I pointed out that UN food drops are less messy than their Leytonstone store.
Well done Sean. Have thought about it every time I go in there (not often). And as a member I hate seeing them waste energy and money. In their defence they are one of the only stores that don’t have their front doors open in the winter, which is another bugbear of mine.
Am I missing something here? This is the only store I know of that actually has doors on it’s fridges.. Tesco don’t, Sainsbury’s don’t ? Are they even needed?
When I was at college (about 18 years ago) I worked part time in a Spar and even back then the fridges never had doors..