Factory shops

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What are the best ones you have visited?

I nearly always miss them open :unamused:
I missed world foods (pataks) Leigh the other day and a pie factory in Whitchurch but I did catch the shop at a cake factory in Welshpool a few weeks ago :laughing:
I forgot to ask if Halewood International had a factory shop (hooch and Lambrini :laughing: )

Be good to hear the best factory shops.

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Haribo Pontefract ā€¦ only because we get staff discount because we haul the product , but the shop is on the main road & open to the public
Finlayā€™s South Elmsall, they pack the supermarket own labels tea & coffee for the likes of Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op etc
The ā€œstaff shopā€ at Finlayā€™s isnā€™t open to the public though, its because we haul the product & we occasionally ask the loading guys to get it for us.
A popular staff shop is the youngs place at Grimsby, but somehow Ive always missed timed my arrival

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Swizzels sweet factory in New Mills. They used to have largish plastic bags full of sweets that were often given free to the drivers.

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Born Idle:
Swizzels sweet factory in New Mills. They used to have largish plastic bags full of sweets that were often given free to the drivers.

Now your talkingā€¦emergency sugar rush :laughing:

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it appears all the tangerine factories have closed their shops as they werenā€™t viable . I was looking forward to a large bag of liquorice allsorts when I was in Liverpool on Thursday too :frowning:

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Tyrells crisps Herefordshire. Collect from there, ask everyone you see for a sample bag. You can get away with literally hundreds of packets. They come in huge sacks. :sunglasses:

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McVities at levenshulme. :laughing:

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Sidoliā€™s in Welshpool,foxes buiscuits and mcvities(I think,ainā€™t been there for ages)in Carlisle.

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The only 1 Iā€™ve used are unilver at seacroft and port sunlight, seacroft has the cheaper but limited choice deodorant (30p a tin lynx) and you are only allowed so much per person per week or something like that, port sunlight do all the washing powder/fabric conditioners and shower gels etc, more expensive than seacroft but still cheaper than the shops

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Thetaff2:
Sidoliā€™s in Welshpool,foxes buiscuits and mcvities(I think,ainā€™t been there for ages)in Carlisle.

Thats the one, Ā£4 for a massive box of heart attack food, I kept the fridge stocked for weeks :laughing:

Smoggie I hope they have our fltā€™s in there as deodorant is a wagon drivers friend :laughing: :laughing:

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I used to enoy the delights of premier foods at histon

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Highland spring , donā€™t have a shop as such but you can take as much water as you want (in brown big dump bins, all damaged cases get put in there and itā€™s a free for all)

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Drift:

Thetaff2:
Sidoliā€™s in Welshpool,foxes buiscuits and mcvities(I think,ainā€™t been there for ages)in Carlisle.

Thats the one, Ā£4 for a massive box of heart attack food, I kept the fridge stocked for weeks :laughing:

Smoggie I hope they have our fltā€™s in there as deodorant is a wagon drivers friend :laughing: :laughing:

Itā€™s a nightmare to find if you never been before but someone will tell you lol

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McVitties in Tollcross have a shop on site. You can get a big bag of biccies for Ā£2.50. If you were to buy what was in the bag in the supermarket, it would probably cost you best part of Ā£20. Plenty more bargains to be had in their shop, but thatā€™s my favourite.

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Thereā€™s a bakery in Dunfermline that make the best bridies and steak pies Iā€™ve ever tasted.
Parked there overnight once I ate so many I could barely get out of the seat!! :grimacing:

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Thetaff2:
Thereā€™s a bakery in Dunfermline that make the best bridies and steak pies Iā€™ve ever tasted.
Parked there overnight once I ate so many I could barely get out of the seat!! :grimacing:

Bridies and Steak Pies. All I need now is some square sausage on a bagel and I could be up in the land of grey skies, tennents, and rain.

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Laurenā€™s patisserie in Newark was good, havenā€™t been for years though, they did pizza express, chilled desserts etcā€¦

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damoq:
McVitties in Tollcross have a shop on site. You can get a big bag of biccies for Ā£2.50. If you were to buy what was in the bag in the supermarket, it would probably cost you best part of Ā£20. Plenty more bargains to be had in their shop, but thatā€™s my favourite.

been there a few times , didnā€™t know there was a shop :frowning: where abouts is it ā– ā– 

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burtons biscuits at cwmbran had a shop, probably still do. only certain times of the day though. loads of jaffa cakes, wagon wheels and toffee pops !!!.

the pot noodle factory in crumlin has a shop, you can get a bagful of pot noodles on the cheap.

i noticed a sweet factory in taunton ( over by the old TDG coldstore site) and a shop open to the public there.

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The one in Taunton is the ministry of cakes and they are very,very tasty. :wink: