Crawshaw Share Discussion Threads

[playful] 31/10/2017 11:38

Good spot here is the fresh article..

[playful] 30/10/2017 23:26

This is what you call value…



Are we doing anything special for bonfire night? I haven’t seen anything yet but perhaps a special Bonfire Sausage promotion?

Free sparklers with every pack...

[optomistic] 29/10/2017 18:47

New factory shop in Barnsley opening soon. Nicely situated...next to Morrison's and close to town center.
All the best Crawshaws for a successful opening and future trading.

[owenski] 29/10/2017 16:38

30 tonne a week product on the floor is supposed to be disposed of????

I find it hard to believe they've been disposing of it, or maybe that's part of the problem, where has it been disposed to?? lol

[owenski] 29/10/2017 15:36

This was on today, not a good listen as far as 2S is concerned.

One would think a 'kill date' is a fairly fixed point in time and not subject to interpretation, not so according to 2S who subsequently repackaged dates until they were caught.

Still sounds like the background issue has not been answered satisfactorily.

Do they still have someone on the board at CRAW?

CRAW had operational problems even before this latest disaster.

Still think this is a bargepole company.

[davidosh] 26/10/2017 13:49

Boparan’s appearance came after an uncomfortable hearing in front of the committee for food inspectors, including representatives from the Food Standards Agency who were forced to admit they had last performed an unannounced inspection at the West Bromwich plant almost a year ago, with the last announced audit in July.


I thought 2Sisters claimed they had lots of visits including unannounced visits in July/August this year ?

[playful] 26/10/2017 12:31

Almost certainly and suspect they’d be happy to talk with anyone interested.

[1iniesta] 26/10/2017 09:15

Playful the factory stores are the way the business is going do you think they will start off loading high street stores if they aren't performing

[playful] 26/10/2017 09:15

Something positive that should boost trade for our Leeds market stall

[playful] 24/10/2017 20:54

A worker filmed changing food safety records at the scandal-hit 2 Sisters chicken plant in West Bromwich has been sacked, in what appears to be the first admission by the company of a regulatory breach.



The dismissal took place in the same week that 2 Sisters repeatedly claimed to investors that there had been no breaches of food safety at the factory.

Why on earth would he be changing labels unless someone had told him to do so, this is not going away anytime soon.

[playful] 19/10/2017 21:39

David Jenkins our northern competition are having a laugh

[playful] 18/10/2017 21:59

Liverpool factory shop opened today and they have put a video on Twitter with someone talking us through the offering so that’s an improvement, but it can’t be hard to allocate an ambassador role for someone within the company to do the same for all shops.

[playful] 15/10/2017 15:01

In the run up to Christmas my local garden centre can get really busy as everybody is buying trees and all the assorted decorations, they have a grotto and food, beer and gifts.

One thing I did notice at Morrisons this weekend was a special promotion within their butchers section for craft ale that goes well with different types of meat. I thought the display units really helped encourage people to try something new.

I’m half expecting Owenski to suggest most of our staff would be sozzled if we did the same.

[buywell3] 14/10/2017 18:08

Amazon now starting its UK push

Companies like CRAW are not going to be able to complete

Chart says so

[castleford tiger] 14/10/2017 16:24

davidosh

That not the case up here.
September to December Xmas decorations and Halloween. We sell 200,000 pumpkins.
December Xmas trees to the 20 th.

Café remains busy all winter.
Early January busy with
Kiln dried logs/fuel and a sale of xmas stock. Furniture sale.
February the keen growers are back for compost the café remains busy.
Late march it all kicks off for main season.

Its all about parking. End of.
Tiger

[1iniesta] 14/10/2017 15:19

Have CRAW increased sales/profit @pocklington since taking the store or not

[davidosh] 14/10/2017 11:25

Just out of interest whilst I accept garden centres have good parking and maybe a different demographic to our factory shops wouldn't there be a problem in certain months where people simply do not go to garden centres ?

I never go near one after September until needing a Christmas tree and rarely before March ! That may just be me and it could be that farmer type produce and a butchery will bring all year round trade.

[playful] 13/10/2017 19:50

I would roll out the Pocklington shop format and push Givendale and our award winning sausages in the Garden Centres to accompany the mix and match.

The Chairman is our best asset here and he didn’t like not being told we had award winning sausages so if he can see the benefits of Givendale/Pocklington we might see a nice surprise.

[1iniesta] 13/10/2017 13:50

Playful when you serve that clientele of customer the focus is "where do you source your meat" I think that CRAW would struggle to tick that particular box

[playful] 13/10/2017 12:58

It might have been worthwhile considering taking space for our factory shops within popular garden centres in Yorkshire instead of opening within industrial estates.

If anyone here is from Leeds and has visited Tong Garden centre recently you will have seen a terrific example of a butchers concession doing just this, with no worries about weather conditions hitting footfall and catering for those all important affluent pensioners it seems less of a risk in my mind.

[owenski] 13/10/2017 09:01

9 years out of date, dropped a few times, booted round the floor, trodden on, nibbled by the cat, returned as rancid from a dodgy Indian restaurant and then repackaged as fresh.

Much cheepness. lol