I wanted to give a huge round of applause to the above company for their exceptional deals and offers as well as their customer services and their free magazine and membership offers.

Scotmid Co-operative are a company who have a co-operative like the Co-operative based in Manchester, but they are a little smaller, also own Semi-Chem and The Fragrance House and you can join them too. I only discovered this just over a year ago, when they had a huge refurbishment in my local convenience store. You can go into the shop and pick up a membership pack, or a savings card, and if you fill this in and hand a pound coin over the counter you get a pack in the post with £10 worth of vouchers to spend in Morning Noon & Night or Semi-Chem and you get a free magazine known as Jigsaw as well as membership of the Co-op. This means that you can take part in all sorts of local community activities and twice a year you will get mailings in time for summer and Christmas with money off coupons to spend in their businesses and surveys of the paper variety, (my favourite bit!) as well as a chance to contribute to their magazine in the form of readers letters for which they pay vouchers.

Their store is really well presented, and their suppliers are the same as the normal Co-operative but in some cases their deals are even better....they have regular reductions and often I can buy my dinner for only 10p on the way home from work...say a ready meal reduced from full price to 10p due to same day sell-by date.

Does anyone else know the company or their doings? Have you a local one near you or would you like to join? Just pop into your shop locally and they will give you a joining pack. Good luck and enjoy all the savings.