Factory shops

[drift]

What are the best ones you have visited?

I nearly always miss them open
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
I forgot to ask if Halewood International had a factory shop (hooch and Lambrini )

Be good to hear the best factory shops.

[peirre]

Haribo Pontefract … only because we get staff discount because we haul the product , but the shop is on the main road & open to the public
Finlay’s South Elmsall, they pack the supermarket own labels tea & coffee for the likes of Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op etc
The “staff shop” at Finlay’s isn’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

[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.

[drift]

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 talking…emergency sugar rush

[syramax]

it appears all the tangerine factories have closed their shops as they weren’t viable . I was looking forward to a large bag of liquorice allsorts when I was in Liverpool on Thursday too

[bigvern1]

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.

[fatboy_slimslow]

McVities at levenshulme.

[thetaff2]

Sidoli’s in Welshpool,foxes buiscuits and mcvities(I think,ain’t been there for ages)in Carlisle.

[smoggie89]

The only 1 I’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

[drift]

Thetaff2:
Sidoli’s in Welshpool,foxes buiscuits and mcvities(I think,ain’t been there for ages)in Carlisle.

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

Smoggie I hope they have our flt’s in there as deodorant is a wagon drivers friend

[the_big_un]

I used to enoy the delights of premier foods at histon

[fallmonk]

Highland spring , don’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 it’s a free for all)

[smoggie89]

Drift:

Thetaff2:
Sidoli’s in Welshpool,foxes buiscuits and mcvities(I think,ain’t been there for ages)in Carlisle.

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

Smoggie I hope they have our flt’s in there as deodorant is a wagon drivers friend

It’s a nightmare to find if you never been before but someone will tell you lol

[damoq]

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

[thetaff2]

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

[nove]

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

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.

[pimpdaddy]

Lauren’s patisserie in Newark was good, haven’t been for years though, they did pizza express, chilled desserts etc…

[syramax]

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

been there a few times , didn’t know there was a shop where abouts is it ■■

[gbd]

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.

[thetaff2]

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